launch gparted
and add flag esp
Just select the boot flag noting else is needed…and set the format to fat32…that’s it …it worked for me
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How do I go about that. A link will help me if available
boot on USB iso manjaro
and lauch “gparted”
then you can select /boot/efi partition ( check driver /dev/sdX before )
and add flag esp if missing
I would try that out and give feedback.
Can’t find gparted among list of app.
I have solved it using a post on this forum. The procedure on Manjaro Manual wasn’t accurate…
However I’m faced with a new problem now.
After successful installation, I decided to upgrade the system using sudo pacman - Syu.
While it was at package 480 / 528 of the upgrade phase, my system froze and nothing seemed working again. I waited 30 minutes all to no avail.
I decided to force shutdown the system. On reboot, Manjaro was totally missing from the list of OS on the grub menu. All I had were “WINDOWS MANAGER” and “UEFI FIRMWARE SETTING”.
How do I go abt this?
If you can’t find the ESP flag - your system is most likely started in BIOS mode.
I went to the system configuration option via my windows, and the BIOS MODE is UEFI
Anyways how do I solve the missing MANJARO from default manjaro grub menu due to its freezing while upgrading packages
start your system using a bootable USB
Open a terminal
Mount your root and esp partition e.g.
$ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mt
$ sudo mount /dev/sdy8 /mnt/boot/efi
then chroot
$ sudo manjaro-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
Then update
# pacman -Syu
Rebuild mkinitcpio and grub
# mkinitcpio -P
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Exit and reboot
# exit
$ rebootI suppose you have to reinstall Manjaro.
You can’t find Gparted because your DE is KDE Plasma.
In Plasma you can use KDE Partition Manager and follow the @stephane/@linux-aarhus directions.
I have been able to solve that by selecting Fat32. Under the flag options, I chose only boot. In the type, I selected /boot/efi as stated by a post created by @linux-aarhus
The first command in your post, is it $ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mt
or $ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mnt
I really wanna be sure if it isn’t a typo. And if it not, I will proceed to trying it out
I didnt get any success running these commands of yours
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mnt
mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdy9 does not exist.
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mt
mount: /mt: mount point does not exist.
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdy9 /mnt
mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdy9 does not exist.
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdy8 /mnt/boot/efi
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo manjaro-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
mount: /mnt/proc: mount point does not exist.
==> ERROR: failed to setup API filesystems in chroot /mnt
[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ pacman -Syu
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
However, i proceeded and used manjaro-chroot -a and got the below
manjaro manjaro]# sudo manjaro-chroot -a
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
==> Detected systems:
--> 0) ManjaroLinux
==> Select system to mount [0-0] :
1
==> Mounting (ManjaroLinux) [/dev/nvme0n1p7]
--> mount: [/mnt]
--> mount: [/mnt/boot/efi]
--> mount: [/mnt/home]
I then continued with your steps at pacman -Syu. This yield the following outputs
[manjaro /]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: ruby-reline will be installed before its ruby-irb dependency
Packages (65) lua52-5.2.4-5 pamac-gtk-9.5.8-1 pamac-snap-plugin-9.5.8-1
pamac-tray-appindicator-9.5.8-1 patchutils-0.3.4-4
pcsclite-1.9.0-1 perl-file-basedir-0.08-5
perl-file-desktopentry-0.22-7 perl-file-mimeinfo-0.29-4
perl-ipc-system-simple-1.30-2 perl-parse-yapp-1.21-3
pkgconf-1.7.3-1 plasma-desktop-5.19.4-1 plasma-nm-5.19.4-1.1
plasma-pa-5.19.4-1 plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.19.4-1
polkit-kde-agent-5.19.4-1 powerdevil-5.19.4-1
powertop-2.13-1 print-manager-20.08.0-1
python-distlib-0.3.1-1 python-html5lib-1.1-1
python-pillow-7.2.0-1 python-pip-20.1.1-1
python-pyqt5-5.15.0-3 python-pyqt5-sip-12.8.0-1
python-pytoml-0.1.21-4 python-reportlab-3.5.48-1
python-resolvelib-0.4.0-1 python-sip-4.19.23-1
python-yaml-5.3.1-2 qt5-imageformats-5.15.0-1
qt5-virtualkeyboard-5.15.0-1 rsync-3.2.3-1 ruby-irb-1.2.4-1
ruby-reline-0.1.4-1 rubygems-3.1.4-1 samba-4.12.3-2
sddm-0.18.1-3 sddm-breath2-theme-1.0.10-2 sddm-kcm-5.19.4-1
skanlite-2.2.0-1 snapd-2.45.2-1 spectacle-20.08.0-1
splix-2.0.0-15 steam-manjaro-1.0.0.64-1 subversion-1.14.0-2
sudo-1.9.2-1 systemd-sysvcompat-246.3-2 terminus-font-4.48-3
thunderbird-68.11.0-1 ttf-indic-otf-0.2-11 udiskie-2.2.0-2
usb_modeswitch-2.6.1-1 user-manager-5.19.4-1
vcdimager-2.0.1-4 vlc-3.0.11.1-2 webkit2gtk-2.28.4-1
wireless-regdb-2020.04.29-1 wpebackend-fdo-1.6.1-1
xapps-1.8.9-3 xorg-twm-1.0.11-1 xxhash-0.8.0-1
yakuake-20.08.0-1 zenity-3.32.0+50+gc229637-1
Total Installed Size: 673.78 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 9.93 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(65/65) checking keys in keyring [###################] 100%
(65/65) checking package integrity [###################] 100%
(65/65) loading package files [###################] 100%
(65/65) checking for file conflicts [###################] 100%
(65/65) checking available disk space [###################] 100%
warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/thunderbird/distribution/distribution.ini
:: Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Remove Thunderbird Distribution Settings
:: Processing package changes...
( 1/65) upgrading pamac-gtk [###################] 100%
( 2/65) upgrading snapd [###################] 100%
New optional dependencies for snapd
xdg-desktop-portal: desktop integration [installed]
( 3/65) upgrading pamac-snap-plugin [###################] 100%
( 4/65) upgrading pamac-tray-appindicator [###################] 100%
( 5/65) upgrading patchutils [###################] 100%
( 6/65) upgrading pcsclite [###################] 100%
( 7/65) upgrading perl-ipc-system-simple [###################] 100%
( 8/65) upgrading perl-file-basedir [###################] 100%
( 9/65) upgrading perl-file-desktopentry [###################] 100%
(10/65) upgrading perl-file-mimeinfo [###################] 100%
(11/65) upgrading perl-parse-yapp [###################] 100%
(12/65) upgrading pkgconf [###################] 100%
(13/65) upgrading polkit-kde-agent [###################] 100%
(14/65) upgrading plasma-desktop [###################] 100%
(15/65) upgrading plasma-nm [###################] 100%
(16/65) upgrading plasma-pa [###################] 100%
(17/65) upgrading plasma-workspace-wallpapers [###################] 100%
(18/65) upgrading powerdevil [###################] 100%
(19/65) upgrading powertop [###################] 100%
(20/65) upgrading print-manager [###################] 100%
(21/65) upgrading python-distlib [###################] 100%
(22/65) upgrading python-html5lib [###################] 100%
(23/65) upgrading python-pillow [###################] 100%
(24/65) installing python-resolvelib [###################] 100%
(25/65) upgrading python-pip [###################] 100%
(26/65) upgrading python-pyqt5-sip [###################] 100%
(27/65) upgrading python-pyqt5 [###################] 100%
New optional dependencies for python-pyqt5
qt5-quick3d: QtQuick3D
(28/65) upgrading python-pytoml [###################] 100%
(29/65) upgrading python-reportlab [###################] 100%
(30/65) upgrading python-sip [###################] 100%
(31/65) upgrading python-yaml [###################] 100%
(32/65) upgrading qt5-imageformats [###################] 100%
(33/65) upgrading qt5-virtualkeyboard [###################] 100%
(34/65) installing xxhash [###################] 100%
(35/65) upgrading rsync [###################] 100%
(36/65) upgrading rubygems [###################] 100%
(37/65) upgrading ruby-reline [###################] 100%
(38/65) upgrading ruby-irb [###################] 100%
(39/65) upgrading samba [###################] 100%
(40/65) upgrading sddm [###################] 100%
(41/65) upgrading sddm-breath2-theme [###################] 100%
(42/65) upgrading sddm-kcm [###################] 100%
(43/65) upgrading skanlite [###################] 100%
(44/65) upgrading spectacle [###################] 100%
(45/65) upgrading splix [###################] 100%
(46/65) upgrading wpebackend-fdo [###################] 100%
(47/65) upgrading webkit2gtk [###################] 100%
(48/65) upgrading zenity [###################] 100%
(49/65) upgrading steam-manjaro [###################] 100%
New optional dependencies for steam-manjaro
lib32-libappindicator-gtk2: added tray icon functionality
(50/65) upgrading subversion [###################] 100%
New optional dependencies for subversion
python: for some hook scripts [installed]
(51/65) upgrading sudo [###################] 100%
(52/65) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat [###################] 100%
(53/65) upgrading terminus-font [###################] 100%
(54/65) upgrading thunderbird [###################] 100%
(55/65) upgrading ttf-indic-otf [###################] 100%
(56/65) upgrading udiskie [###################] 100%
(57/65) upgrading usb_modeswitch [###################] 100%
(58/65) upgrading user-manager [###################] 100%
(59/65) upgrading vcdimager [###################] 100%
(60/65) installing lua52 [###################] 100%
(61/65) upgrading vlc [###################] 100%
New optional dependencies for vlc
lua52-socket: http interface
(62/65) upgrading wireless-regdb [###################] 100%
(63/65) upgrading xapps [###################] 100%
(64/65) upgrading xorg-twm [###################] 100%
(65/65) upgrading yakuake [###################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
( 1/15) Creating system user accounts...
( 2/15) Reloading system manager configuration...
Skipped: Current root is not booted.
( 3/15) Creating temporary files...
Failed to open file "/sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload": Read-only file system
error: command failed to execute correctly
( 4/15) Reloading device manager configuration...
Skipped: Device manager is not running.
( 5/15) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
( 6/15) Reloading system bus configuration...
Skipped: Current root is not booted.
( 7/15) Warn about old perl modules
( 8/15) Updating fontconfig cache...
( 9/15) Compiling GSettings XML schema files...
(10/15) Updating icon theme caches...
(11/15) Updating the info directory file...
(12/15) Copy Thunderbird Distribution Settings
(13/15) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...
(14/15) Updating the vlc plugin cache...
(15/15) Updating X fontdir indices...
After which i then ran mkinitcpio -P, which produced
[manjaro /]# mkinitcpio -P
==> ERROR: No presets found in /etc/mkinitcpio.d
At this junction, i stopped and didnt proceed further again
It’s definitely /mnt but I don’t see any info in this thread as to what the correct device & partition identifiers are. Maybe posts were deleted?
sudo parted -l
should help determine this.
can you returns
sudo mhwd-kernel -li
sudo ls /boot/*Did not work for me.
- in the German ISO, this was translated to the German equivalent of “bootable” (IMHO, it should just not be translated)
- I did that and now the SSD has no bootable partition
OP would you mind marking the post that solved the titular problem for you, if any?