New user here (also new to Linux).
Here’s my system information:
System:
Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.13-x86_64
root=UUID=60d6f1f5-536f-4620-ac5d-8e31bd908748 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP ENVY Laptop 15t-ep000 v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 878F v: 18.33 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.06
date: 01/18/2021
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 71.3 Wh (86.2%) condition: 82.7/82.7 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 12.4 min: 11.6 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Discharging cycles: 26
Memory:
RAM: total: 31.13 GiB used: 2.34 GiB (7.5%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-10750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Comet Lake family: 6 model-id: A5 (165) stepping: 2 microcode: EA
cache: L2: 12 MiB bogomips: 62431
Speed: 900 MHz min/max: 800/5000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 901 3: 900
4: 900 5: 900 6: 901 7: 900 8: 900 9: 901 10: 900 11: 901 12: 900
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc
cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms
est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid
invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx ospke pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge
pku pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap
smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow
tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave
xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc4 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1f95 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.16.1 driver:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 size: 344x193mm (13.5x7.6")
diag: 394mm (15.5")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl
alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:06c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
port: 4000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:06f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-14:3 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 port: 4060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086.282a rev: class-ID: 0104
Device-1: md127 maj-min: 9:127 type: mdraid level: N/A status: inactive
size: N/A
Info: report: N/A blocks: 2944 chunk-size: N/A
Components: Online: N/A Spare:
0: nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:7 size: 27.25 GiB state: S
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 504.19 GiB used: 10.23 GiB (2.0%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:7 vendor: Intel model: HBRPEKNX0202AHO
size: 27.25 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s
lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS3 temp: 26.9 C
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: HBRPEKNX0202AH
size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s
lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS2 temp: 25.9 C scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 40.21 GiB size: 39.28 GiB (97.69%) used: 10.17 GiB (25.9%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme1n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A
uuid: 60d6f1f5-536f-4620-ac5d-8e31bd908748
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
used: 62.3 MiB (24.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
label: SYSTEM uuid: B458-9AFA
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 404.69 GiB fs: ntfs label: Windows
uuid: 30B810FEB810C46E
ID-3: /dev/nvme1n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 527 MiB fs: ntfs
label: Windows RE tools uuid: CA80AF1480AF05D3
ID-4: /dev/nvme1n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 size: 23.44 GiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-9:2 info: Elan Micro ELAN:ARM-M4 type: <vendor specific>
driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 04f3:0c4c class-ID: 0000
Device-2: 1-14:3 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 32.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 323 Uptime: 13m wakeups: 1327 Init: systemd v: 249
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 1048 pacman: 1041 lib: 301
flatpak: 0 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.8 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.06
I was running Windows on my HP Envy 15t laptop (came pre-installed) and decided to dual-boot Windows and Manjaro because I didn’t want to run either on a virtual machine. Possibly a bad decision. I’ll explain my situation.
What happened:
My C drive had BitLocker encryption enabled and Manjaro wouldn’t install with that, so first I had to disable that. No problems there.
In the meantime I also manually created a ~30 GB partition for Manjaro on the same drive (my laptop has only one drive). Worked fine as well.
Then I burned the XFCE version of the ISO to a USB drive. Also no problems.
I inserted the drive into my laptop and restarted it using advanced options, which allowed me to boot from said USB drive.
Up until now, everything was working fine.
But when I tried to boot from the USB, Windows said it wasn’t possible. I was forced to continue back to Windows.
Some digging around on the internet and Linux installation guides told me that I had to disable secure boot first. So I did that by going to BIOS and disabling it from there. Worked as expected. I could still boot Windows so I figured there was no harm in continuing.
So I tried booting from the USB again, and this time it worked, launching Manjaro and its installer. Tried installing Manjaro in that partitioned space. It gave me a warning, saying that it only supported EFX file formats or something like that. Don’t remember exactly. But it let me continue, so I did, because the guides I was reading did the same thing.
This was probably where it all went wrong.
Manjaro failed to install.
No problem, I thought, and restarted my laptop. However, upon booting, Windows started trying to perform automatic repairs and diagnosing my device. Unfortunately, it couldn’t do any sort of repairs, so I was stuck with 2 options: shut down the laptop, or re-try booting from the USB.
I chose the latter.
This time, though, I let Manjaro create the partition in the disk itself, which worked fine. It also managed to install properly, which was a saving grace, because otherwise my laptop would be pretty much unusable.
The present:
Although Manjaro has installed properly and is working just fine, there is one major problem: in the file system (/), it tells me I have only ~27 GB of space remaining. I can also navigate to a “Windows” directory (in “Devices”, along with “File System”), which seems to contain all of my files from the Windows installation. This one has ~240 GB of space remaining.
I don’t know if I can (or should) use that directory. Is it even safe to read and write files from there? Or even possible?
If not, how do I get Manjaro to free up more space for itself? I do have an external hard drive that I can use as a temporary measure (and also has backups of all my important files), but it’s just not practical.
And is it recommended (or worth it) to try dual booting Windows and Manjaro again or would I just end up further bricking my laptop?
Really would appreciate some quick and useful solutions on this.
TL;DR:
I tried to dual-boot Manjaro and Windows. Disabled C drive encryption, created partition manually, disabled secure boot, then tried installing Manjaro from a USB. Attempt 1 failed. Could not boot Windows after that.
Tried installing again and let Manjaro do its own partitioning. This succeeded. Still can’t load Windows.
Manjaro file system says I only have 27 GB space remaining. Windows file system (device?) has 240 GB. Need it to be the other way around, or need to be able to recover Windows. Auto recovery not working.
it sounds like a learning journey, i hope it is educational 