I wanted to test out different drivers for my Nvidia GPU
The ones I had were “video-linux” and “video-modesetting”
I installed “video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime” from using “Auto Install Proprietary Driver” and rebooted with everything working fine however I wasn’t happy with performance so I removed it and installed “video-nvidia”
After that I shutdown my laptop and tried to reboot it - the only thing showing was vendor and Manjaro logo and next a blank screen with a “_”
Several attempted reboots later I decided to get into BIOS to try to reinstall the system or restore it with Live USB, however I couldn’t get into BIOS showing again a blank screen and “_”. I read on a forum Acer Nitro 5 has problems with getting into BIOS with Manjaro and one solution was to hold down the power button for more than 15 seconds to boot BIOS with initial settings.
This worked so I tried to just reboot again with result being terminal:
“ERROR: Failed to mount ‘UUID=(uuid number)’ on real boot
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can’t access tty: job control turned off”
I didn’t know what to do here so I booted into Live USB to just reinstall.
When I did Installer showed “There are no partitions to install on” after checking devices manager my 2 hard drives weren’t there.
Things I tried(?)
With Manjaro Live USB I:
- ran “Restore installes system settings” → It didn’t find any Linux installed on computer
- looked for drivers with fdisk -l which only listed the Live USB
- lsblk output
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 88.5M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/livefs
loop1 7:1 0 1.9G 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs
loop2 7:2 0 1019.2M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs
loop3 7:3 0 970.1M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/rootfs
sda 8:0 1 57.7G 0 disk /run/miso/bootmnt
├─sda1 8:1 1 4.1G 0 part
└─sda2 8:2 1 4M 0 part
With my laptop:
- boot without either of the drives
- swapping their places
The drives and my Manjaro install are yet to be seen, drives show up in the BIOS with Model Name and Serial Number though.
