Manjaro Live USB boot fails when HDD broken

[Aleks]

I have a broken hard drive. I wanted to recover some information using the Manjaro live USB, but it just refuses to boot, hanging on the Starting Manjaro screen. I understand that the image should be used to install the OS on the hard drive, but when I used Linux Mint Live it worked perfect. I’m just wondering what this error is connected with, because sometimes I use live images to fix something in computer.

[andreas85]

How to boot from USB into live Manjaro (for repair):

How to boot into my system from usb?

Hi newbi question my desktop is XFCE my pc is 64bit 60gig hardrive. I did a recent up date and now manjaro won’t boot up. I get a message saying I need to have a kernel installed first. I’ve tried advanced option but even the fallback won’t boot. I did some research that it’s possible to recover my installed system by chroot using usb but not really sure what to do after I get the message below. In the terminal I typed “manjaro-chroot -a” below is the message I got. “Mounting (ManjaroLinux) …

What does your UEFI tell about:

• Your Harddisk
• Your USB stick

[Aleks]

There is no Linux on my broken hard drive, it just stores files

[andreas85]

You have to look into your uefi to see wehter

• your harddisk is broken, or
• the adapter or
• something other

Without booting a live manjaro nothing is possible. So we have to first find why the live manjaro does not boot in your case.

Is this a recent live manjaro, or an old one ?

@Aleks

hanging on the Starting Manjaro screen.

Could you describe this a little more precise ?

[Aleks]

This is new manjaro, i download it about hour ago. In screen just one line: “Starting majaro-5-255-1…” i don’t remember what actually numbers been in this screen

[Olli]

there are better solutions for your needs as rescue-system, just like this one:

DistroWatch.com: SystemRescue

[Aleks]

Thank you

[Aleks]

SystemRescue just like Manjaro does not work. In this situation, it is better to use Windows PE

[NGr]

@Aleks

Windows PE

You won’t be able to access linux partitions from a windows environment.

[andreas85]

@Aleks

SystemRescue just like Manjaro does not work.

Then:

• Your UEFI has something switched on, that prevents Linux to boot (like secure boot …)

or

• Your system is messed up really bad

[Olli]

as @andreas85 already mentioned, check your bios that booting from an external device is enabled and secure-boot must be disabled. check your mainboard-manual if you have to use a function key like F8 for example to enter the boot menu from where to select booting from external.

[Aleks]

Windows PE have the ext4/ext3 drivers

[Aleks]

I did everything anyway, I know what Linux needs to run, but Linux never started. Anyway WinPE was still able to start, and I already figured out my problem. Thank you for your replies.

[person1873]

@Aleks Aleks, could you please post your solution and mark it as such so that the internet may benefit from your wisdom