I’ve been running Mint on my Latitude E7440 and Manjaro KDE on 2 other laptops and 1 desktop (all different hardware).
Got tired of having 1 different system running Mint so decided to install Manjaro on the Dell E7440. Initial install was flawless (Zetar) and booted perfectly, but after updating system at terminal (sudo pacman -Syu) and rebooting, the screen would flash black and then to the Dell/Manjaro logo, and then black and then logos and just keep flashing between the 2.
I tried reinstalling again with the exact same result. Something in the pacman -Syu must be installing something the laptop does not like.
The Dell E7440 has Intel Integrated graphics (Haswell).
I did not have a ton of time to go thru forums as I have family obligations today, but wanted to get something out there in case anyone was familiar with this issue.
Did you use the latest iso, ‘Zetar’ has been out a while? If it’s an older version it might fail due to Plymouth still being installed, see: How to remove plymouth?
I downloaded a fresh ISO just prior to installing. When I did pacman updates there were only like 210 updates.
I should also add just for giggles, I tried a quick install of Endeavour and had the exact same issue (even prior to any updates). Not sure if it is a latest kernel thing or something like that, but I can’t even get into a terminal to try and revert to an older kernel.