Boot on btrfs subvolume error: "mount: /new_root: unknown filesystem type 'btrfs' "

Welcome to the forum! :vulcan_salute:

I guess you didn’t look around very well then, because it most certainly does offer you a choice of installing on btrfs, as well as on xfs, jfs, f2fs, and a whole batch of other Linux-native filesystems.

You probably need to rebuild the initramfs. :point_down:

mkinitcpio -P

You’ll have to chroot into the btrfs installation from the live USB or from the ext4 installation.

The following tutorial (:point_down:) is not really about your kind of problem, but it describes the procedure for chrooting into btrfs, because manjaro-chroot cannot deal with btrfs subvolumes.

You’ll probably also need a btrfs-capable version of grub, because the default grub cannot handle sparse files. Inside the `chroot, run the following command. :point_down:

pacman -S grub-btrfs
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