As the title says, I have a manjaro installation as my primary dirver, which refuses to boot. If I select the UEFI boot as any of manjaro options, the screen just blanks out and nothing happens - I have left it for hours. This was immidiately following a full update - unfortunately with the pamac GUI. Lesson learnt, and I will only use the CLI
I decided to try troubleshooting with chroot - I can log in - see all my files and have the following output:
[manjaro /] sudo inxi -F
System: Kernel 5.6.15-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits 64 Console N/A Distro Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type Desktop Mobo ASUSTeK model PRIME X470-PRO v Rev X.0x serial <filter>
UEFI American Megatrends v 5406 date 11/13/2019
CPU: Topology 6-Core model AMD Ryzen 5 3600 bits 64 type MT MCP L2 cache 3072 KiB
Speed 2196 MHz min/max 2200/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz) 1 2196 2 2196 3 2195 4 2196
5 2196 6 2196 7 2196 8 2196 9 2196 10 2196 11 2196 2196
Graphics: Device-1 NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce RTX 2070] driver nouveau v kernel
Display server X.org 1.20.8 driver nouveau note display driver n/a
Message Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.
Audio: Device-1 NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio driver snd_hda_intel
Device-2 AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio driver snd_hda_intel
Sound Server ALSA v k5.6.15-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1 Intel I211 Gigabit Network driver igb
IF enp7s0 state up speed 1000 Mbps duplex full mac <filter>
Device-2 Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter type USB driver r8152
IF enp5s0u1u1u4 state down mac <filter>
Drives: Local Storage total 1.84 TiB used 1.66 TiB (89.9%)
ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1 vendor Intel model SSDPEKNW010T8 size 953.87 GiB
ID-2 /dev/nvme1n1 vendor Toshiba model KXG50ZNV5G NVMe 5GB size 476.94 GiB
ID-3 /dev/sda vendor Western Digital model WD10EARS-00Y5B1 size 931.51 GiB
ID-4 /dev/sdb vendor SanDisk model Ultra II 480GB size 447.13 GiB
ID-5 /dev/sdc type USB vendor Generic model Flash Disk size 14.94 GiB
ID-6 /dev/sdd type USB vendor Generic model Flash Disk size 14.94 GiB
Partition: ID-1 / size 39.12 GiB used 33.27 GiB (85.0%) fs ext4 dev /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2 /home size 491.15 GiB used 267.71 GiB (54.5%) fs ext4 dev /dev/nvme0n1p4
Swap: Alert No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures cpu 54.0 C mobo N/A gpu nouveau temp 27 C
Fan Speeds (RPM) N/A gpu nouveau fan 887
Info: Processes 303 Uptime 33m Memory 15.61 GiB used 2.64 GiB (16.9%) Client inxi 3.1.05
and regarding the graphics driver:
[manjaro /]# mhwd -li> Installed PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia-450xx 2019.10.25 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
Apparently I have the latest driver installed
If this is unrecoverable - it is fine - but I still would love to learn what is going on and how can I recover from something like this if it happens to an installation that is more valuable.
When the same information is supplied in more than one way, the highest precedence mechanism is used. The list of mechanisms is ordered from highest precedence to lowest.
If there is no xorg file for the nvidia card, then it will use auto-detection and use the nouveau driver if available. So you can’t use both, but you can let both installed.
Got it - so, i made changes with mhwd - and exit-ed the chroot. Went in again and ran inxi, which shows that I am still using the nouveau drivers - what is going on and how can I force nvidia drivers?
Tty actually showed Nvidia driver in use. Forum doesn’t let me post screenshots, it’s annoying. This was executed from tty, not chroot - so apologies cuz I am reading this from screen and typing in my phone