I just purchased a new HP 17-by4633dx laptop (Intel i5, 8GB RAM, 256GD SSD), and I am trying to install Manjaro as the only OS. I’ve done this before on an older version of the same laptop without undue trouble, but with the new laptop, it has been a massive headache. I created a bootable USB with …

That sounds like my friend’s laptop. Did you at any point disable it? Changing it now can destroy your existing data. Add vmd to your MODULES under /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and then rebuild the initcpio. You can do this via a live USB session, chroot into your root filesystem, apply the changes, then r…

ERROR: device 'UUID=88a...7c' not found. Skipping fsck

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winnie 4 September 2021 13:57 3

This might be relevant if your HP laptop has Intel VMD storage:

I had to do the same thing for a friend’s new laptop.