Boot error vmlinuz-5.4 not found

[Hueich]

Hello

I stopped an update yesterday and now my laptop won’t boot, it only shows a black screen with the message:

error: file '/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64' not found. error: you need to load the kernel first.

I have some very important files in the laptop, is there anyway to recover them?

[Wollie]

Welcome at the forum, @Hueich

NEVER stop an ongoing update - you see what’s happening. Try to boot into a Manjaro LIVE ISO, chroot into your system by

sudo manjaro-chroot -a

and re-try to update from there, report any errors.

[cscs]

@Hueich

I stopped an update yesterday and now my laptop won’t boot

Sorry to hear that, but its a bit expected.

If you cant boot in any way from the currently installed system you still may be able to access and fix it using a guide like this:

[HowTo] Resolve an unbootable Manjaro (black screen, login failed, cant boot, etc)

When we have problems gaining access to our systems it is difficult to gather information, let alone fix any problems. Here we will cover common causes and solutions to ‘manjaro wont boot’. TTY If your desktop does not load properly then you might still be able to use most, if not all, functionality by dropping to a non-graphical TTY. By default your system will have multiple TTYs, with each corresponding to an Fx key. Your desktop is assigned to one as well - most often F1. You can change…

(the long and short of which is in @Wollie’s preceding response )

Feel free to report back once you are able to interact with it and we may be able to help you recover.

[stephane]

i added

after chroot , check and give return

sudo manjaro-chroot -a
mhwd-kernel -li
mhwd -li
ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/*.preset

[Hueich]

Hi, here are what I got:

[manjaro /]# mhwd-kernel -li
Currently running: 5.9.11-3-MANJARO (linux59)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-still-6.4.7-7/desc: No such file or directory
   * linux54
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local/libreoffice-still-6.4.7-7/desc: No such file or directory
[manjaro /]# mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
[manjaro /]# ls etcmkinitcpio.d*.preset
ls: cannot access 'etcmkinitcpio.d*.preset': No such file or directory

I can`t update the system too.

[Wollie]

@Hueich

I can`t update the system too.

What messages do you get if you execute

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu

[Hueich]

I just solved it using chroot and updating the system.
Thanks for the help and Happy New Year to y’all

[5K1PP3R]

Worked for me after I installed linux 54 and linux 510 packages as well. Either one of them would also have done the job as of June 17th 2021.

sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu linux54 linux510