Bootloader won't Install

Hi. I’m new to Manjaro, and the bootloader will not install on my laptop. It’s an MSI, but I don’t know the model. It has before this ran Windows, but not anymore. After Windows, it ran Fedora perfectly. But when I try to use the Uranos installation system, it will not install the bootloader, returning error code 1.

and here’s’ the latest return from emfibootmgr:

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0001* UEFI:  USB DISK 2.0 PMAP      PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x0)/USB(0,0)/USB(0,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x0,0x7441f8,0x2000)0000424f
      dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 1d / 03 05 06 00 00 00 / 03 05 06 00 00 00 / 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 f8 41 74 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 42 4f

I am trying to install the latest version of KDE Manjaro (unless there was a new release as of yesterday), so I don’t know what to do.

I would add the termbin, but it’s too long for a post

inxi returns:

System:
  Kernel: 6.5.5-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
    misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2304 quiet systemd.show_status=1
    splash driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GE72 2QC v: REV:1.0
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-1792 v: REV:0.B serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: E1792IMS.113 date: 07/17/2015
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 37.9 Wh (94.5%) condition: 40.1/42.4 Wh (94.5%)
    volts: 12.1 min: 10.8 model: MSI BIF0_9 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: not charging
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M325
    serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-4720HQ bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
    gen: core 4 level: v3 note: check built: 2013-15 process: Intel 22nm
    family: 6 model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 830 high: 1051 min/max: 800/3600 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 798 2: 798 3: 800 4: 800
    5: 798 6: 798 7: 798 8: 1051 bogomips: 41523
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7.5
    process: Intel 22nm built: 2013 ports: active: eDP-1
    empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0416
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 535.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-09)
    arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:139b class-ID: 0302 temp: 44.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus,nouveau gpu: i915
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x1735 built: 2012 res: 1920x1080
    hz: 60 dpi: 128 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus drv: nvidia nouveau platforms:
    device: 0 drv: crocus device: 1 drv: nouveau device: 2 drv: swrast
    surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11: drv: crocus inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.3 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:0416 memory: 1.46 GiB unified: yes
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.264 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
    name: Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) driver: mesa intel
    v: 23.1.9-manjaro1.1 device-ID: 8086:0416 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0c0c class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI 8 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.5.5-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.81 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
    status: active tools: pw-cli
  Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
    type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b3 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: alx v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:e091 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-1.3:3 chip-ID: 8087:07dc
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 935.25 GiB used: 7.15 GiB (0.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS721010A9E630
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> fw-rev: A3J0 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: USB DISK 2.0 size: 3.73 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 2.0 spd: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1
    mode: 2.0 tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 44.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 238 Uptime: 31m wakeups: 8 Memory: total: 12 GiB
  available: 11.61 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (23.5%) Init: systemd v: 254
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1201 libs: 320 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.30

sudo parted -l returns:

Model: ATA HGST HTS721010A9 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      2097kB  317MB   315MB   fat32              boot, esp
 2      317MB   1000GB  1000GB  ext4         root


Model:  USB DISK 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 4010MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      3901MB  3905MB  4194kB  primary               esp

test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios returns:

efi

I have decided for now to just try to return to using Fedora

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