Manjaro failed to load the kernel modules

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When attempting to boot into manjaro today, I am told that manjaro failed to load the kernel modules. After some reading I followed the advice an booted into a live-manjaro, and executed
sudo manjaro-chroot -a

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 (ManjaroLinux) [/dev/nvme0n1p5]
 --> mount: [/mnt]
 --> mount: [/mnt/boot/efi]

I then chrooted into manjaro following thes instructions: [HowTo] Chroot from or into any Linux distribution

But now I’m lost. Can you please help me to find and fix the issue? The following information might be helpful:

LANG=C sudo parted -l
NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                                              
loop1                                              
loop2                                              
loop3                                              
loop4                                              
loop5                                              
loop6                                              
loop7                                              
sda                                                
|-sda1                                             
`-sda2                                             
sr0                                                
nvme0n1                                            
|-nvme0n1p1                                        
|-nvme0n1p2                           66.4M    31% /boot/efi
|-nvme0n1p3                                        
|-nvme0n1p4                                        
`-nvme0n1p5                          200.4G    80% /
Model: Verbatim STORE N GO (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 7744MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      3530MB  3534MB  4194kB  primary               esp


Model: Force MP510 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1920GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  556MB   555MB   ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      556MB   661MB   105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      661MB   677MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      677MB   461GB   460GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 5      461GB   1920GB  1460GB  ext4         root

The nvme0n1p5 is my manjaro installation.

(base) [manjaro /]# mhwd-kernel -li
Currently running: 5.15.60-1-MANJARO (linux515)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
   * linux515
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first rerun update:
pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && pacman -Syyu
are you running nvidia?

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Hell again, brahma.
Update the live-distro or the original installation?

Yes, I run nvidia. You&I had a good time about a month ago, finding out which linux-kernel and which nvidia-drivers work on my hardware …

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haha … no you run in from chroot - chroot, then run the update command …
probably the failed kernel modules are nvidia again …

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I entered the orig. Installation and typed in the commands. Pacman suggests to update the nvidia-drivers, but I am reluctant to do so. Still: not updating doesnt solve the problem neither :slight_smile:

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yes you had to downgrade the nvidia, because nothing we tried worked … so did you update them with the latest update that was few days ago?

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They were set to “ignore” in the software-manager (gui). But it happened before that they got updated anyway, so this was the first thing I checked today. The packages have the correct version.

So it must be related to another updated package.

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you had kernel blacklisted too … that could be related … since the issue is around month ago, lets try to update the nvidia+kernel to the latest, because you cannot function like that …
so just rerun the update so that it updates the kernel + nvidia …

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I am now running linux6.0.0.rc4-1 kernel, together with nvidia driver 2021.11.04 - and I’m back in the game.

Thank you very much, brahma. I very much appreciate that you seem to be online in this forum for weeks, just waiting for me to post my next manjaro’s issue.

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glad that it worked… and the 6.0 could be unstable, maybe it would be better to switch to the 5.19:
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux519

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I believe we tried&error-ed 5.19 before… but I will give it another shot.

However, giving the amount of troubles I had during the last months with kernels and drivers, the word “stable” does not mean to me what it once did :wink:

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haha thats true … if you so far didnt noticed any troubles on the 6.0 so keep using it, if you do noticed, then try the 5.19 …

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5.19 leaves me with a blinking cursor… :frowning: so we hope for the best with the 6.0 version.