Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
So you couldn’t wait until the update process had completed and you went for the reset/power button, didn’t you? And now you’re getting the message that you don’t have a kernel installed. Well, you’re not the only one — we’re seeing it happen all the time.
So, here’s how to fix it, you impatient n00b.
If you don’t happen to have a recent Manjaro installer USB/DVD/CD handy, direct your browser to this wonderful page, download the .iso
of your choice, put it on a USB stick in the proper manner — Ventoy is a great way of creating bootable USB sticks, and it’s available for Microsoft Windows too if that is what you’re currently using — and then boot up from it in live mode.
Once the desktop has loaded, open up a terminal window. In this window, issue the following commands…
sudo su -
manjaro-chroot -a
If you have more than one GNU/Linux system on your machine, select the number that corresponds to the Manjaro installation that needs to be repaired. Then proceed with the following commands…
[ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ] && rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
pacman-mirrors -f
pacman -Syyu
update-grub
exit
Be sure to let all of the above commands take their time and finish up. When prompted for the replacement of certain packages, answer Y
.
After all of the above, cleanly reboot your machine and remove the USB stick.
Useful sites…