Error: file '/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64' not found

[cicadaenjoyer]

Hello,

I was working on my laptop when it suddenly shut off while in the middle of updating. Now I’m currently struggling to reinstall the proper kernel. I have tried multiple guides on this forum but haven’t found success in either one of them. I am currently following this thread, however, I am running into a few problems.

System broken during update process. Now can't boot

You should not wait that long between updates. Manjaro is a curated rolling-release distribution, which means that updates are tested longer and bundled together. So there won’t be too many updates, but then you should still update your system whenever an update becomes available. If for whatever reason you don’t want to do this, then perhaps Manjaro is not the right distribution for you, and then you should be looking for a fixed-point-release distribution instead. That is always a bad id…

For one, when I try to sync the pacman databases using the ‘pacman -Syyu’ command, it fails to synchronize. I have read somewhere that you don’t need to go into chroot, but when I sync my databases, reinstall the kernel, and reboot, my laptop still fails to load the kernel properly.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

[zbe]

@cicadaenjoyer

using the ‘pacman -Syyu’ command

@cicadaenjoyer

I have read somewhere that you don’t need to go into chroot

Yes you do. Especially if you want to run that command. Also, correct command is with a single ‘y’.

@cicadaenjoyer

it fails to synchronize

Post output – as preformatted text.

[stephane]

if you can boot

sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck 
sudo pacman -Syyu

[cicadaenjoyer]

Thanks. By deleting the lck file, I was able to use pacman commands in chroot. However, I’m still unable to install kernels from the chroot.

[zbe]

Post. Output.

[stephane]

then go in chroot
and return

mhwd-kernel -li
ls /etc/mkinitcpio.d/*.preset
ls /boot/
ls /lib/modules/