Failed to start Load Kernel Modules

Haha I like the thinking, but it returns with an “error: target not found: linux56” interestingly enough

Right, forgot 56 is linux56-rt (realtime) …

I edited my previous post…

it looks like it worked correctly, only the ‘usbhid’ module wasn’t found, but it looks like that isn’t a critical module by any means, especially on an 8 year old laptop interface…so should I restart normally now?

One last step to be certain, update-grub , then reboot! :partying_face:

it gave me this, is it a problem?

[manjaro /]# update-grub
Generating grub configuration file …
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.7-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.7-x86_64-fallback.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64-fallback.img
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
done

Oh, that is fine! :sweat_smile:

That’s GRUB trying to probe your live USB …

You may reboot successfully, now!

It worked! Thank you very much!

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Sweet!! :partying_face:

Glad it worked !! Thank you for your patience!!

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Sure, this is a Manjaro support forum after all. ISOs aren’t that hard to get (Manjaro - Downloads) and perhaps there is even a bootable usb left over from initial installation.

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You’re a genius! I had a similar issue and it worked perfectly. You saved my life bro

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Hello @The_Quantum_Alpha. I am experiencing the failure to load kernel modules error on boot as well. I also found this post but as I am not an expert with linux, I am struggling to interpret the suggested solution.

I tried your recommend solution, but on pacman -R linux54 it errors with:

checking dependencies…
:: removing linux54 breaks dependency ‘linux54’ required by linux54-nvida-340xx
:: removing linux54 breaks dependency ‘linux54’ required by linux54-virtualbox-host-modules

It was suggested to me to use mhwd-kernel -r linux54 instead. With that in mind, would the following be the correct command to resolve the load kernel modules error?

sudo pacman -S linux510 && mkinitcpio -P && mhwd-kernel -r linux54 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -S linux54 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -R linux510 && mkinitcpio -P

Thanks!

You can indeed give it a shot!

If not, let me know!

@The_Quantum_Alpha, I gave it a shot.

Error: You can’t remove your current kernel.

Let’s see :thinking:

Try the following command : sudo pacman -S linux510 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -Rdd linux 54 linux54-nvidia-340xx linux54-virtualbox-host-modules && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -S linux54 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -R linux510 && mkinitcpio -P

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This time I got the following two errors:

error: target not found: linux
error: target not found: 54

Should the command be changed to sudo pacman -S linux510 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -Rdd linux54 linux54-nvidia-340xx linux54-virtualbox-host-modules && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -S linux54 && mkinitcpio -P && pacman -R linux510 && mkinitcpio -P?

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Oups! My bad, sorry!

Indeed, remove that space!

That command finished. I will run update-grub and then reboot. Hopefully the kernel is able to load on reboot.

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The screen is black after reboot. I am able to select Manjaro Linux on boot screen, but just get black screen. I can still access TTY2.

is your GPU AMD, may I ask?

Hi @The_Quantum_Alpha, I hope this answers your GPU question

lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] (rev a1)

I ran sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 to try to install drivers, but it returned Skipping already installed config 'video-linux' for device: 0000:01:00.0 (0300:10de:06eb) Display controller nVidia Corporation G98M [Quadro NVS 160M].

However, the driver doesn’t appear to be recognized:

inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA G98M [Quadro NVS 160M] driver: N/A