Not Booting. Stuck at ASUS boot logo

Hello.
One day I woke up and couldn’t boot my Manjaro setup. There was this “Failed to start kernel modules” error.
I searched the forum and tried chrooting from a live boot and updating system+reinstalling grub. After that I couldn’t even reach the error message. It’ll stop at spashscreen.
I only had 5.4 kernel before the boot problem. I also installed 5.10 after chrooting to give that a try. Seems no sucess.
Here’s inxi -Fazy output from live env:

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDEM_2021 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 
  radeon.modeset=1 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X541UVK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X541UVK v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: X541UVK.308 date: 01/30/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 8.1 Wh condition: 24.8/34.6 Wh (72%) volts: 10.8/10.8 
  model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Charging 
  cycles: 990 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-7200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9 
  microcode: DE L2 cache: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 21607 
  Speed: 3100 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3100 2: 3100 
  3: 3100 4: 3100 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf 
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5916 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 920MX] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:134f 
  Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 1-6:4 chip ID: 13d3:5a01 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 
  driver: intel,nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip ID: 8086:9d71 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 02:00.2 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: enp2s0f2 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Lite-On 
  driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: c000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:b723 
  IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.37 TiB used: 110.1 MiB (0.0%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB 
  size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 4B6Q 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk 
  size: 7.5 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> 
  rev: 8.07 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 8.69 GiB used: 110.1 MiB (1.2%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2700 
Info:
  Processes: 197 Uptime: 1m wakeups: 1 Memory: 11.58 GiB 
  used: 1.38 GiB (11.9%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: 
  pacman: 1114 lib: 342 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole inxi: 3.2.0

I have no idea, if my problem is related to yours, but as you use sddm, my answer here might interest you: forum.manjaro . org/t/stable-update-2021-04-28-kernels-wine-ruby-jdk-kde-dev-mesa-21-0-3-kde-apps-21-04-python-haskell-mate-1-24-2-virtualbox-thunderbird/64383/42?u=trollwut

Thank you very much. I’ll give that a try when I’m free.

In grub in boot parameters if you have “splash” try removing "splash and then sudo update-grub.

Unfortunately that didn’t work either. Updated a couple of hundred megabytes and no change. Still stuck at asus logo without reaching grub.

I wish there was some file that I could reach to and read, and hopefully find some errors in it.