New machine using old SSD boots to grub error, rather than to Manjaro?

Please try to give more precise information generally, which might give others a better understanding of issues you are facing.

Examples:

What was the actual error given?

The actual error is more informative than your description of the error. Posting the command and full output of sudo pacman -Syu in this case is much more useful.

Exactly what did that forum post tell you to do? At bearest minimum, a link to that might have been helpful; recreating the commands used in this thread is better.

Again, the outputs of these commands are more useful than (paraphrasing) “it didn’t work”.

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Regards.