I am on a laptop, and it doesn’t have a numlock key. Anyway, is your suspicion about the Kernel being gone only applicable during the black screen?
When I asked if you did this first a couple days ago, you evaded the question yet again.
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I (mistakenly) presumed this link had already been given.
What question? Whether I updated grub? I answered that.
And your answer indicates that you didn’t update Grub:
I believe the suggestion is that you should attempt to update Grub, using the procedure given at the link @Molski provided. Ignore the BTRFS references as they are not applicable.
1. Boot from a current Manjaro Live Installer
2. Enter a chroot environment via the terminal;
manjaro-chroot -a
This places you inside your system as the root user, with all necessary partitions mounted. From there, you can progress to update Grub;
possibly, you could skip to the Updating Grub heading (at that link) to use the special install-grub application, if needed. However, do try the earlier suggestions to Reinstall Grub, first of all.
Cheers.
I believe the suggestion is that you should attempt to update Grub, using the procedure given at the link @Molski provided.
I see, so that was a suggestion, the way Molski’s response was worded makes it sound like they were confirming it is done or not. Now it’s clear what steps I should try doing. Thanks for making it clear by the way. Anyway, does reinstalling grub from a USB still poses the risk of screwing up my installation? It’s so low-level it gives me chills just imagining the process.
As long as you follow the established directions given, and understand what the commands actually do, it’s unlikely that any further harm will result from reinstalling Grub.
If this leads to resolving your issue, I’d suggest performing a new Timeshift backup. Previous backups will only restore the non-working configuration, and you would be back to square one.
Cheers.
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Grub gets updated all the time when when you update your system, the exact same command gets run. (At least with kernel and other misc updates.)
There is no way to say for certain, but there is a good chance your root drive is there ready to boot your restored version. Grub may just need to know where to start, or need installed in the first place after that restore.
And it’s a common command most of us know here. And it’s near instant. For you, after you chroot in.
Um, no, the kernel could have died at any point, even with an image on the screen. It was simply a guess because your System Requests didn’t work.