I had Manjaro installed on the first SSD drive on partition /dev/sda4/ I have two SSD drives. On the second SSD drive i installed AV-linux on partition /dev/sdb4/ there was 50 Gb of space available. Before the installation i have made a timeshift snapshot and after grub-update the snapshot was av…

[image] germona: The Manjaro entry was still there, actually the grub menu was exactly the same as before installing AV-linux. Including the snapshot you made? [image] germona: But when i choose Manjaro, it starts up in an emergency mode, i can enter my password and then i am in a kind o…

[image] Aragorn: Including the snapshot you made? Yes indeed

[image] Aragorn: Do you mean your account password or a LUKS password? With my normal password, i don’t know what a LUKS password is. Anyway, i now have installed Manjaro 25.07 “ZETAR” over the AV linux partition. At the end of the installation of the new manjaro os, the grub found the two…

[image] germona: [image] Aragorn: Including the snapshot you made? Yes indeed That’s good. This means that you’re still using Manjaro’s grub, and that the snapshot is available for restoration, if need be. [image] germona: [image] Aragorn: Do you mean your account password o…

[image] Aragorn: Also, with regard to the display manager issue, which Manjaro edition are you using? Manjaro 25.0.7 Zetar

[image] Aragorn: There could be several reasons for that, but the most common one is that you have a mix of systems which boot in native UEFI mode and systems which boot in legacy BIOS mode (CSM). How can i check or solve this? It is possible that AV linux used the UEFI mode, normally i use l…

[image] germona: Manjaro 25.0.7 Zetar Um, no, that is not what I was asking. Which desktop environment or window manager are you using? Plasma GNOME Xfce Cinnamon i3 Sway … …? [image] germona: How can i check or solve this? [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS

[image] Aragorn: [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS BIOS mode

[image] germona: [image] Aragorn: [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS BIOS mode You’ll have to do that in each of the installed systems. I suspect they will be different. [image] germona: Xfce desktop environment And you wouldn’t happen to have an Nvidia GPU, w…

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way to rescue my Manjaro installation

[root tip] [recovery] Basic Manjaro Linux Rescue and Recovery Tutorials

Purpose It is not intended as a one-stop-solution guide. The intention is To Provide A Basic Understanding of the steps required to succesfully recover when an incident has prevented the operating system from loading. Requirements Basic understanding of using a console or virtual terminal to execute commands. Ability to edit configuration files using terminal a console editor like nano, micro or vi(m). You are willing to learn The knowledge gained and skills acquired will be applicable - n…

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