Fresh Manjaro USB SSD install works on another laptop, but not mine

There is no easy answer to that.

Partly because I think we are circling - an xyproblem - the underlying issue is the lack of understanding of the difference between BIOS/MBR and EFI/GPT.

Depending on the type of USB device it may report itself as REMOVABLE and installing Manjaro to a removable device must be done manually and special caution is needed both with the fstab generation and the boot loader installation.

There is several topics on how to target a removable device for installation. Just search the forum - one of them is this

Please familiarize yourself with the subtle differences as I am quite sure this is where the real issue is.

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