That’s interesting. As described before, the system containing these files was freshly installed from “manjaro-xfce-22.0.5-230316-linux61.iso” downloaded yesterday, dd-ed to USB; then just updated to 22.1.0-1 by pamac. If there are some configurations bad or old, this should be addressed to the distribution image also. I’ll follow your notes and then try with mkinitcpio 35.2-2 again.
D.
Result: After applying the changes to the files and installing the mkinitcpio upgrade (which involves the mkinitcpio and update-grub), the (fresh) system again failed to boot (message font scrambled as before - I had tried VGA instead of HDMI yesterday, still not readable; but judging from the structure, it’s the same error message for the actual uuid). D.