Custom Manjaro ISO starts on my PC, but doesn't start on other

I used ‘buildiso -p xfce’ to make my own Manjaro build. It works ok on my PC and it works well on a virtual machine (VirtualBox).
But when I try to start it on my laptop, it doesn’t start (“Welcome to Manjaro”, then black screen).
On my basic PC there is an Nvidia card. On the laptop - some sort of radeon.

I added the following lines into the Packages-Desktop:

xf86-video-amdgpu
xf86-video-ati
xf86-video-intel
xf86-video-nouveau
xf86-video-vesa
xf86-video-fbdev
xf86-video-qxl
vulkan-radeon
vulkan-intel
vulkan-swrast
>multilib lib32-vulkan-radeon
>multilib lib32-vulkan-intel
>multilib lib32-mesa
libva-intel-driver
libva-mesa-driver
mesa-utils
>multilib lib32-mesa-utils
numlockx
xorg-server
xorg-xinit
xorg-xkill
linux-firmware
sof-firmware

But the build still doesn’t start on the laptop.
What’s wrong?
The official Manjaro XFCE starts well on both machines.

If you used the default xfce profile as starting point - it makes no sense to add the packages listed.

Some of them is installed using mhwd, some is already part of the default and others are part of the root filesystem.

Impossible to deduce from the info provided.

I suggest you

  1. update your host system
  2. reboot
  3. rebuild the ISO
  4. retest the result

Did you turn off “Secure Boot” in the BIOS?

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@m720

This is a fair question, especially considering that your ISO appears to work as expected in another machine and a VM.

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My host system is updated.
Also, I tried to build oem xfce profile instead of default xfce, but it changed nothing.

“Secure Boot” is disabled.

The oem profile is intended for system vendors as it differs in that it does not do a complete setup - but leaves the user-setup to be done by the final user.

The default profiles are those used by Manjaro Team when new ISOs are released.

So if the ISO boots on one machine but not another, everything point to the hardware in question.

I know it is not want you want to hear but it seems impossible to provide a meaningful suggestion on how to solve the issue.

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