Disclaimer: I’m a Linux newbie
I have a laptop with Windows 10 and am trying to add Manjaro (kde) as a second OS.
I booted into the live environment from a USB and ran the installer.
Every time, it completely freezes at 90% on “installing the bootloader”.
Mouse movement or key-presses aren’t displayed and the internal fan also stops after a few minutes.
The partition seems to get created and written to succesfully but there is no grub when booting up the laptop.
Checking efibootmgr from inside the live environment shows that no new start option was registered. I tried to follow a tutorial to register the start option manually via the live environment’s shell, doing that also freezes the laptop, with the same symptoms.
I tried creating the main partition from inside the installer and from inside windows.
I also used the manual partitioning option.
When I did that, I got the warning that I hadn’t set up the efi partition correctly, even though I followed a tutorial and couldn’t find anything that was different.
My inxi output on the live environment:
inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
Kernel: 5.15.28-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=de_DE keytable=de tz=UTC
misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2125 quiet systemd.show_status=1
apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=nonfree nouveau.modeset=0
i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.24.3 tk: Qt 5.15.3 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire ES1-732 v: V1.21
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Acer model: Seismo_AP v: V1.21 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: Insyde v: 1.21 date: 08/13/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 26.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 26.8/36.7 Wh (73.0%)
volts: 12.1 min: 11.3 model: COMPAL 0000000000000000 type: Li-ion
serial: <filter> status: Charging
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.59 GiB used: 1.41 GiB (18.6%)
RAM Report:
permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Celeron N3350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Goldmont family: 6
model-id: 0x5C (92) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x46
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 112 KiB
desc: d-2x24 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 2x1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 975 high: 1096 min/max: 800/2400 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 854 2: 1096
bogomips: 4378
Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
arch_perfmon art bts cat_l2 clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est
flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt lahf_lm lm mca
mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand
rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1
sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
tsc_deadline_timer tsc_known_freq tsc_reliable vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 500 vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915
v: kernel ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:5a85 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony VGA Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:4
chip-ID: 04f2:b47f class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 423x238mm (16.7x9.4")
s-diag: 485mm (19.1")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics built: 2011 res: 1600x900 hz: 60
dpi: 106 gamma: 1.2 size: 382x214mm (15.0x8.4") diag: 438mm (17.2")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 1600x900
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 500 (APL 2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.7
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_apl bus-ID: 00:0e.0
chip-ID: 8086:5a98 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.28-1-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 1000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 990.11 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ04ABF100
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1J scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 type: USB vendor: Intenso model: Twist
size: 58.59 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A
serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: MBR
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
Message: No partition data found.
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: ESP
uuid: A2BF-12EC
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 897.57 GiB fs: ntfs label: Acer
uuid: 3660C05760C0200B
ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 1024 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery
uuid: E8F6C20BF6C1D9C8
ID-5: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 32.53 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: d859c73c-fa52-4155-a528-9043400d3b60
ID-6: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 3.54 GiB fs: iso9660
ID-7: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 4 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI
uuid: EAE6-38D6
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:2
info: Silicon Motion - Taiwan (formerly Feiya ) Intenso Twist Line
type: Mass Storage driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1
speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 090c:2000 class-ID: 0806
Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Device-3: 1-7:4 info: Chicony VGA Webcam type: Video driver: uvcvideo
interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 04f2:b47f
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Device-4: 1-8:5 info: Realtek RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
type: <vendor specific> driver: rtsx_usb,rtsx_usb_ms,rtsx_usb_sdmmc
interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0bda:0129
class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 7 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 183 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1241 lib: 334
flatpak: 0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.13
Can you help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?
I would appreciate any help and will gladly add more info if needed.
