Dual boot: trying to boot into Manjaro (gnome) hangs on acer screen

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#1

Hi all,

I’m new quite new to Manjaro and as of recent I can’t boot anymore in Manjaro. I’d like to figure the origin of this problem and especially how to fix this. So the problem is that when I try to boot Manjaro from the grub menu it hangs on the acer screen. I don’t recall doing any updates on Manjaro and I didn’t boot into windows between the last successful boot in Manjaro (in the afternoon it was fine but in the evening I couldn’t boot anymore).

I searched a bit around on the forum and found some topics that said that perhaps the grub was corrupted but I’m not sure if this could be the case here?

I understand that this is not much info but I simply don’t know which info is helpful and how to get that info. Of course I’m willing to provide needed info if told how to get it :slight_smile:.

Thanks in advance!

#2

Hi @JorisI :wink:

First thing you can do… is removing quiet from the grub kernel parameter.

At the grub menu, type e and remove quiet and boot with F10. The you will see at least where it hangs.

#3

Thanks a lot for the tip!
I was back at home with my laptop today and I tried booting again. Oddly enough, at my home it booted fine. Might it have something to do that I already had network access at home? I’ll see if the problem happens again and I’ll remove the quiet to see the error message.

#4

So I was again away from home and the problem did happen again. First time I tried booting manjaro I got something like “failed: pkgbuild doesn’t exist”. After this I removed the quiet from the grub like you said and I booted with F10. Two lines appeared quickly after which I got the acer screen with underneath three dots and Manjaro. It didn’t get passed this so I hit ctrl+alt+del after which it said “no bootable device found”. Currently I can’t get in the grub menu anymore nor can I boot in anything beside linux using F12.
It’s really odd that I could just boot normally at home.
Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Joris

#5

It seems to me windows has overwritten the efi partition on the last update. You will need to reinstall grub with manjaro live boot disk:

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/GRUB/Restore_the_GRUB_Bootloader

Also keep sure that the UUID fo the efi partition in lsblk and in /etc/fstab are same.

Electrifying greetings,
megavolt

#7

Okay, but I don’t see how this would explain that I could but just find at home :stuck_out_tongue:.
I’ll definitely have to reinstall the grub now anyway but the original problem confuses me :slight_smile:

#8

If I understand correctly, it boots at home, but not when not at home?

#10

It did indeed. Now it probably won’t because somehow my GRUB got corrupted while trying to boot this time. (It seems that if I hit reply to you it doesn’t always show up on the post? Do you still get a notification of it?)