Cannot boot on Yoga 7I ITL5

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I recently purchases a Lenovo Yoga 7i ITL5 (intel version). Great and beautiful machine but i cannot boot on Manjaro but I searched some help and see that there is an Arch post about it :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_Yoga_7i

i tried the solutions explained but I’m blocked after ‘mkinitcpio -p linux’ :

[root@manjaro-gnome /]# nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf               
[root@manjaro-gnome /]# mkinitcpio -p linux
'$/usr/bin/mkinitcpio: line 268: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: No such file or directory'
==> ERROR: Failed to load preset: `/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset'`

Maybe i started the solution the wrong way or the problem is not there. don’t know.
I use a bootable Manjaro USB stick to work on a solution

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:+1: Welcome to Manjaro! :+1:

Instead of mkinitcpio -p linux, try:

mkinitcpio --preset

:crossed_fingers:

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Is this running inside a chroot environment or directly from the live USB?

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Just do sudo mkinitcpio -P aka mkinitcpio --allpresets. It will run for all installed kernels.

Arch has linux and linux-lts while we have multiple kernels; i.e., linux513, linux510, etc.

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it’s running directly from live USB

The -P argument worked so i finished the tuto and reboot but any bootable options was shown
I precise that i didn’t do the 2 comands

mount -L SYSTEM_DRV /mnt/boot
swapon -L swap_p

because i don’t have windows partition.

Any new idea ? Do i need a chroot environment ?

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Yes, you have to build the initramfs (running mkinitcpio -P) inside the chroot environment.

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just to be sure, on the thread linked (from arch forum) the guy is just using one single partition because he wants to dual boot.
In my case i want only Manjaro on thee computer, so :

  • where do i put
/mnt/boot

with all the content on it ?
there is my partitions (very simple from installer) :
/dev/nvme0n1p1 fat32 300Mo boot, esp
/dev/nvme0n1p2 ext4 476G [NO–FLAG]

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The computer is for my sister and she needs it tomorrow, she is used to linux and loves it but i don’t have time to install it properly, si i will (sadly reinstall windows) and retry in some months. Maybe Lenovo will give a new BIOS or someone will explain it on a simplier way for my little knowledge and competences.

Hope this thread helped :slight_smile: