Manjaro works only in fallback mode initramfs

I dual booted manjaro with my existing linux mint system
now i have one small issue, i am able to open manjaro only in fallback mode

mint still works in all modes
any idea on how to resolve this?

Have you rebuilt your initramfs?

# mkinitcpio -P

Perhaps you are using BIOS/MBR and the bootloader installed to the MBR - sharing it with Mint?

Due to subtle differences with the grub implementation - Manjaro does not always play well with other Linux distributions - especially not Debian based distros.

Before you jump to conclusions on what to do - please check if you are using MBR and then check your grub versions.

no i haven’t rebuilt initramfs

but i don’t know how to check for MBR?

when your system is running - list the contents of the efivars folder - if it exist - then you are running EFI

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

i got this

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You didn’t have to post it - as I said - if it exist you are running EFI - and it is only using MBR the conflict between grub versions occationaly happens

Just rebuild your initramfs within your Manjaro installation.

how can i do that?
i started using manjaro yesterday and i don’t know how to do what you are saying :worried:
so, what should i do now??

As @linux-aarhus said:

And I suspect it has to be run as root.

I know this is old – relatively speaking – but I had the same issue and tried your suggested solution. It didn’t work.