So I have a new computer decided to try and install Manjaro to it. Put the install iso on a USB drive and booted from there. My mouse is not available on the desktop not sure why and everything is super sluggish. I try to use keyboard navigation instead of the mouse, but all I succeed in doing is changing the language on the greeter/installer.
Ctrl+alt+f2 to get to a terminal run top and I see plasmashell is pegged at 100% CPU, and it doesn’t ever seem to finish whatever it’s trying to do.
Hardware wise it’s a 7900x CPU from AMD (12 core) and a rx7900 xtx GPU. The desktop is probably trying to run without a GPU driver, and that is pegging a CPU core completely, I guess trying to render.
How do I get past this? Can I install the driver’s in the command line somehow? Is there an image besides the KDE one I should use for installation and later switch to KDE?
I’m not a complete neophyte when it comes to Linux but troubleshooting this seems a little beyond me, has anyone else encountered this issue? Any ideas for workarounds? I can’t get anything done in the GUI, it’s completely unresponsive so it will have to be done through the terminal.
Any suggestions would be most welcome, thanks in advance.
grub-probe:error: cannot find a grub drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe:error: cannot find a grub drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
Mounting (Arch) [/dev/nvme2n1p2]
The sda is the live USB, the nvme drive is my old linux root from my previous computer that I tried to install arch over before deciding that might be a bit too ambitious. It lacks pacman-mirror commands (and a lot else) and isn’t in a viable state.
I’ve been googling how to work around that but without much luck. I can’t mount /dev/sda because it’s already mounted as /run/miso/bootmnt.