Manjaro newly installed but doesn't boot

The installer most definitely offer a choice of root file system - it defaults to btrfs - but the combination of the default file system compression (zstd) and the compressed init (also zstd) may create issues on some systems.

See → [root tip] [recovery] Basic Manjaro Linux Rescue and Recovery for instructions to mount the btrfs layout and chroot into the system.

As you are using btrfs - to avoid the conflict between file system compression and init compression you may change the compression for the init to cat

Then re-build your init

mkinitpio -P

To reinstall the grub boot loader simply run the manjaro grub installer script

install-grub    
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