Problems installing Manjaro on Dell Inspiron 3501

@lenngomes Ok one think i could imagine, that the installation was not successful, but manjaro-chroot works, so assume all system files are there.

The other thing would be an firmware issue with nvme and the kernel. Please boot into your BIOS/UEFI and check these things (names may be differ):

Sadly you didn’t post the inxi -Fazy … there is also listed the version and date of your UEFI firmware:

If you use the back-ticks like described, you dont need reformat anything here. It will just shown correctly like this:

$ inxi -Fazy
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.1-5-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
  root=UUID=0a99b40e-fa5e-42a6-af9f-ff2e3a9ed8ce rw mitigations=off
  mds=full,nosmt audit=0 nowatchdog random.trust_cpu=on quiet apparmor=1
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  resume=UUID=0a99b40e-fa5e-42a6-af9f-ff2e3a9ed8ce resume_offset=1492992..
  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.3 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4
  dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: F2A55-M LK2 v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter>
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 6308 date: 11/25/2014
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64
  type: MCP arch: Piledriver family: 15 (21) model-id: 10 (16) stepping: 1
  microcode: 6001119 L2 cache: 2 MiB
  flags: avx lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  bogomips: 28959
  Speed: 3850 MHz min/max: 1400/3600 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
  1: 3850 2: 3863 3: 3693 4: 3736
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 status: Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and
  usercopy barriers only; no swapgs barriers
  Type: spectre_v2 status: Vulnerable, STIBP: disabled
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia
  v: 455.45.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0
  chip ID: 10de:1c82
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 driver: nvidia display ID: :0.0
  screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x318mm (20.0x12.5")
  s-diag: 599mm (23.6")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 size: 518x324mm (20.4x12.8")
  diag: 611mm (24.1")
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01
  direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
  bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio vendor: ZOTAC
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:0fb9
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.1-5-MANJARO
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
  vendor: ASUSTeK P8 series driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 04:00.0
  chip ID: 10ec:8168
  IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
RAID:
  System supports mdraid: raid0
  Device-1: md0 maj-min: 9:0 type: mdraid level: raid-0 status: active
  size: 1.82 TiB
  Info: report: N/A blocks: 1950087168 chunk size: 512k super blocks: 1.2
  Components: Online:
  0: sdb1 maj-min: 8:17 size: 930 GiB
  1: sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 size: 930 GiB
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 5.68 TiB used: 3.65 TiB (64.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Apacer model: AS350 240GB
  size: 223.57 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> rev: 3PE0
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> rev: 1A01
  ID-3: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA100
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> rev: A750
  ID-4: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0
  size: 3.64 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
  serial: <filter> rev: 0A80
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 223.18 GiB size: 218.67 GiB (97.98%)
  used: 84.66 GiB (38.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
  used: 280 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
  ID-3: /home raw size: 1.82 TiB size: 1.79 TiB (98.38%)
  used: 1.57 TiB (87.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/md0 maj-min: 9:0
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 15.62 GiB used: 273.5 MiB (1.7%) priority: -2
  file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: 36.0 C gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1588 fan-2: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 49%
  Power: 12v: N/A 5v: N/A 3.3v: 3.31 vbat: 3.29
Info:
  Processes: 237 Uptime: 3h 14m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.8 GiB
  used: 5.94 GiB (76.2%) Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
  clang: 11.0.0 Packages: pacman: 2110 lib: 532 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0
  running in: alacritty inxi: 3.2.01