Manjaro stuck at /dev/sda.... when booting - Kernel 5.14 EOL

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Hello,

I have just updated Manjaro and rebooted, now it is stuck at the /dev/nvme0p2… screen. (or /dev/sda…).
No error messages there. According to some other post I switched to tty2 with ctrl+alt+f2, logged in as root and tried to reinstall the nvidia drivers using mhwd -i -f pci video-nvidia-470xx, mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 and mhwd -f -i pci video-nvidia. Non of those work however, they all return an error message.

Error: target not found: linux514-nvidia(-470xx (for the -470xx command))
Error: pacman failed
Error script failed

mhwd -li returns, only the video-linux driver installed.

Any suggestions on how to solve the problem are much appreciated!

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5.14 is EOL. Switch to a supported kernel. If you already have a backup kernel installed try booting with that or install a new one:

sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu 
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux515

Then reboot into 5.15. Press Esc during boot to get into grub menu > advanced options and boot with 5.15. Double check your running kernel is not 5.14 then remove it:

uname -r #to check kernel version
sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux514
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Thanks a lot! Did as you said + mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 and now its running again.

Just to understand, the kernel 5.14 reached EOL and that’s why it got borked?

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Yes. Also because the nvidia drivers for 5.14 has been dropped a long time ago.

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Thanks, the more you know…

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