Pacman error "invalid or corrupted package"

If you don’t have issues with booting your system then no, this is not what you need to do.
So please disregard the rest in that case.

As far as I can see, his information is incorrect anyway.
He did chroot into the system, but then proceeded to use /mnt/boot as the target directory.
From within chroot (where he is), that directory is not /mnt/boot but /boot - the parameter is not needed.
This would be the way to do it without chroot.
and
The command is now different - it’s manjaro-chroot now.

But I could be wrong.

I’d rather go with this information here - or look in the wiki how to chroot