Can't chroot into system

[david2]

Hello everyone,

I just installed the latest (stable) update and if I now boot into Manjaro (I use dualboot with Windows and Manjaro) I only get a black screen. Unfortunately I can neither tty nor chroot into the system to fix the problem.
What can I do?

[Wollie]

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

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[david2]

Thank you!

None of the suggestions seems to work. Only if I set the root parameter acpi=off , nolapic , nomodeset radeon.modeset=0 I see something:

Will it work if I just reinstall Manjaro? I remember that I did reinstall it once while keeping the home folder but I do not remember exactly how that worked. Can I just keep the home partition and format all other partitions used for the Manjaro system?

[Wollie]

@david2

Can I just keep the home partition and format all other partitions used for the Manjaro system?

You could re-install and keep your /home folder, indeed.