Installation of Manjaro 21.3.2 failed

I have tried to installed the latest version of Manjaro KDE on computer.

But in the UEFI Bios of my computer under Booting, there is no entry for Manjaro (Grub).

The manual partitioning is as follows:

300 MB VFAT /boot/efi
1GB ext4 /boot
32GB swap
100 GB ext4 /(root)
300 GB ext4 /home
50 GB ext4 /var
It is a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro.
There is also Win10 installed on that SSD.

can you report
with USB live manjaro
open a terminal and a browser on this topic

inxi  -Fza
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted -l 

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.50-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=de_DE keytable=de tz=UTC
    misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2132 quiet
    systemd.show_status=1 driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
    radeon.modeset=1
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1
    dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Server System: Supermicro product: X10SRA v: 0123456789
    serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 17 v: 0123456789 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Supermicro model: X10SRA v: 1.01 serial: <filter>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 2.1a date: 10/24/2018
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-6800K socket: LGA2011-3 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Broadwell gen: core 6 built: 2015-18 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x4F (79) stepping: 1 microcode: 0xB00002E
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
    L3: 15 MiB desc: 1x15 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1217 high: 1400 min/max: 1200/3800
    base/boost: 3400/4000 scaling: driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil
    volts: 1.8 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 1201 2: 1201 3: 1200 4: 1201
    5: 1201 6: 1201 7: 1400 8: 1200 9: 1201 10: 1200 11: 1202 12: 1200
    bogomips: 81634
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode;
    SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no
    microcode; SMT vulnerable
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no
    microcode; SMT vulnerable
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 515.xx+ status: current (as of 2022-06)
    arch: Turing process: TSMC 12nm built: 2018-22 pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports:
    active: DP-1 empty: DVI-D-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1f82
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x381mm (26.65x15.00")
    s-diag: 777mm (30.58")
  Monitor-1: DP-1 model: Dell U2713HM serial: <filter> built: 2012
    res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23")
    diag: 685mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: NV167 v: 4.3 Mesa 22.1.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel C610/X99 series HD Audio vendor: Super Micro
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:8d20
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10fa class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.50-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.52 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel I210 Gigabit Network vendor: Super Micro driver: igb
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1533 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel I210 Gigabit Network vendor: Super Micro driver: igb
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: c000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1533 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno2 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.39 TiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 1TB
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 5B2QGXA7
    temp: 22.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 10d 13h cycles: 2,721
    read-units: 22,409,816 [11.4 TB] written-units: 6,831,248 [3.49 TB]
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 PRO 512GB
    family: based SSDs size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 4B6Q temp: 22 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 374d 13h cycles: 23522
    written: 6.61 TiB
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra Fit
    size: 14.32 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
    serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 17.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 21.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 283 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.23 GiB
  used: 1.54 GiB (4.9%) Init: systemd v: 251 default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1195
  lib: 321 flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash (su) v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
  inxi: 3.3.19

test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
bios

sudo efibootmgr -v
```EFi variables are not supported on this system```

parted -l

Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 512GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 512GB 512GB ext4

Model: SanDisk Ultra Fit (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15,4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 15,3GB 15,3GB primary boot
2 15,3GB 15,4GB 33,6MB primary fat16 esp

Model: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
2 106MB 123MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
3 123MB 500GB 499GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
4 500GB 500GB 551MB ntfs hidden, diag
5 500GB 500GB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
6 500GB 501GB 1074MB ext4
7 501GB 536GB 34,4GB linux-swap(v1) swap
8 536GB 643GB 107GB ext4
9 643GB 965GB 322GB ext4
10 965GB 1000GB 34,9GB ext4

You are in bios mode not UEFI which is needed for you partition setup i. e. “/boot/efi”

I have booted Manjaro KDE 21.3.2 with Ventoy.
This could be the cause.

I think you still have a choice of bios or efi with ventoy. Though I am not certain as I don’t use it.

I have booted Ventoy in Bios mode.

You need to boot in uefi mode

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check in your UEFI motherboard ( security - boot )

  • Legacy boot is desactived
  • CSM boot is desactived
  • all disks are on AHCI
  • fastboot is desactived

I have started Ventoy in EFI mode.
Now the installation is sucessful.

Now the output of

test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios

is efi

and

efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0006,0007,0002,0005,0001
Boot0000* Manjaro	HD(5,GPT,0a467fab-7271-344d-8894-571997c824a1,0x3a383800,0x96000)/File(\EFI\MANJARO\GRUBX64.EFI)
Boot0001  Hard Drive	BBS(HD,,0x0)/VenHw(5ce8128b-2cec-40f0-8372-80640e3dc858,0200)..GO..NO..........S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .9.8.0. .P.R.O. .1.T.B...................\.,.@.r.d.=.X..........A...........................%8...",.....D..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .9.8.0. .P.R.O. .1.T.B........BO..NO..........S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .8.5.0. .P.R.O. .5.1.2.G.B...................\.,.@.r.d.=.X..........A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.3.S.F.9.X.N.J.0.3.6.5.4.3.1. .D. . . . ........BO
Boot0002* CD/DVD Drive	BBS(CDROM,,0x0)/VenHw(5ce8128b-2cec-40f0-8372-80640e3dc858,0300)..GO..NO..........H.L.-.D.T.-.S.T. .B.D.-.R.E. . .B.H.1.6.N.S.5.5...................\.,.@.r.d.=.X..........A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.I.S.9.K.G.7.O.A.1.C.2.5. . . . . . . . ........BO
Boot0005  UEFI: Built-in EFI Shell	VenMedia(5023b95c-db26-429b-a648-bd47664c8012)..BO
Boot0006* Windows Boot Manager	HD(1,GPT,ab64cf8a-51ad-4aab-b0d1-2cd9d87931da,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI)
Boot0007* UEFI OS	HD(5,GPT,0a467fab-7271-344d-8894-571997c824a1,0x3a383800,0x96000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)
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