Manjaro installation does not boot

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I found the AHCI. It is enabled (“Configure SATA as AHCI”). The other option id IDE.

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looks ok… maybe it doesnt have secure boot…
maybe its how you installed manjaro?
post output from:

lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME
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This is with the usb plugged in. Hence the sdb and dos PPTYPEs.

[jlb@banff ~]$ lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME
PATH PTTYPE PARTTYPE FSTYPE PARTTYPENAME
/dev/sda gpt
/dev/sda1 gpt 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4 Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2 gpt 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f swap Linux swap
/dev/sda3 gpt 0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4 Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 gpt c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat EFI System
/dev/sdb dos iso9660
/dev/sdb1 dos 0x0 iso9660 Empty
/dev/sdb2 dos 0xef vfat EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

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And I think I sent this earlier, but parted -l gives:

Model: ATA ST9500325AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
4 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot, esp
1 538MB 158GB 157GB ext4
2 158GB 168GB 10.5GB linux-swap(v1) swap
3 168GB 500GB 332GB ext4

I think I saw one post in the forum that suggested removing the swap flag on the swap partition. I have not tried it yet. Should I?

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And I used the graphical installer, and note that the partitions are not quite in the order I created them during the install. I had the fat32 partition 1st, but I see it’s still physically at the start of the disk. I’m not sure that matters… At one point (maybe it was the MBR days) I think it did.

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everything looks ok…

i dont know about this, but you can try:

i think its a bios thing… disable the legacy boot and if you find CMS, disable that too

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Disabled legacy boot (UEFI only), and I don’t see CMS anywhere.

Same problem: “No OS found”.

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i have no idea whats the problem could be… either its a bios thing, or how it was installed…
you can try to remove both entries from the efi directory:
sudo rm -r /boot/efi/EFI/Manjaro
sudo rm -r /boot/efi/EFI/boot
then reinstall it again:

sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=manjaro --recheck

update it:
sudo mkinitcpio -P && sudo update-grub
reboot

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I’ll give that a try.

I searched and found this, which seems to suggest I may need to update the bios. What do you think?

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I don’t know how to do that. I’ll try your suggestion first.

Thank you for your help.

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Just to followup:

I did try removing the /boot/efi/EFI subdirectory and re-installing grub. I had no errors with installing grub, so updated. However, this did not solve my problem with booting to Manjaro.

Some more searching leads me to think that it is a problem with the bios I have on this machine. In addition to the link in my above post, I have found some more things I may try:

https://superuser.com/questions/1692006/lenovo-m93p-will-no-longer-boot-from-hard-drive-or-usb-drives (one post discussed M92p)

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=187715

As to how to update without a windows OS installed, these may be useful:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/How-can-I-Install-BIOS-Upgrade-without-windows-installed/td-p/8106

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nice find, it really looks like there is a problem with uefi on this machine… so just disable uefi and enable legacy, create MBR and install manjaro in legacy/mbr mode, which according the links should work …

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Yep. Confirming it did work.

I did consider updating the bios, but could not see that the reward was worth the risk, since I did not have windows installed, and that seemed to be required for the default method.

Thank you again for your help in resolving this issue.

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