Cannot boot into Manjaro need to load kernel first (encrypted disk)

[sawdoctor]

Do you have a live usb with a recent version of Manjaro? You need to boot with the live usb and then try and use chroot into your system to finish the upgrade if you can. There’s a few tutorials on how to use it

[HowTo] Chroot from or into any Linux distribution

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Step 1: Mount your system. This works for both GRUB and EFI systems/installations Okay, the first thing to do is to be root. To do so, open a terminal and type in sudo -i then hit the Enter key. You may then give in your password if prompted. We then need to create a directory where we will mount the target system. In this case, let’s make a directory named “chroot”, by entering mkdir /chroot in the terminal. Time to find where is your system located!! To do so, you may e…

GRUB/Restore the GRUB Bootloader