trying to install Manjaro 22 XFCE on a brand-new system. My monitor is connected to the GPU’s HDMI port and I installed with nonfree drivers with boot option “ibt=off” added, as otherwise I wouldn’t get past “Starting systemd-udevd version 252.4-2-manjaro”.
I was able to boot off the USB stick and install Manjaro. However, when I try to boot into my system after successful installation, I get stuck at a screen that looks like the following:
In some threads I read that people get around this by accessing another TTY (ctrl+alt+F2/3…) so they can login as a workaround, but in my case the system freezes completely so I can only hit the reset button.
You need to boot again using the same kernel command line option, by editing the boot entry in your grub menu, before you boot into your operating system.
Then afterwards add that option to your GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT config in /etc/default/grub and regenerate your grub config.
Else add the kernel option in the config of the boot loader you do use…
Oh wow - thank you that did it. I guess because of the very different output I assumed it was something else and completely forgot that of course the boot option I added earlier wouldn’t stick.
So to recap if anyone else runs into this:
I accessed GRUB menu by hammering ESC during boot after POST, pressed E to edit boot options and added ibt=off again:
