Live-iso fails to boot (manjaro-cinnamon-22.0-230104-linux61.iso)

I am booting the iso from a usb-stick, where ventoy is installed.
Tried the latest manjaro-iso of kde from april 21, the same error happens.

What can I do to install the manjaro-cinnamon desktop ?

franz@lmde5 ~> sudo inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width
[sudo] Passwort für franz:          
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.0-21-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-21-amd64 
  root=UUID=ffe059e3-3bc1-4383-9970-b2a226f98227 ro quiet splash 
  Console: tty 0 wm: muffin DM: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 5 Elsie 
  base: Debian 11.2 bullseye 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Wortmann_AG product: TERRA_PC v: N/A serial: N/A 
  Chassis: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. type: 3 serial: N/A 
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: H61M-S2PV serial: N/A UEFI: American Megatrends 
  v: FH WG date: 04/24/2013 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.8 GiB used: 1.88 GiB (49.5%) 
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max module size: 16 GiB 
  note: est. 
  Device-1: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: No Module Installed 
  Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 4 GiB speed: 1333 MT/s type: DDR3 
  detail: synchronous bus width: 64 bits total: 64 bits manufacturer: 029E 
  part-no: CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 serial: N/A 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-3220 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 21 
  L1 cache: 64 KiB L2 cache: 3 MiB L3 cache: 2.9 MiB bogomips: 26341 
  Speed: 1640 MHz min/max: 1600/3300 MHz base/boost: 3300/7000 volts: 1.0 V 
  ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1640 2: 1955 3: 1936 4: 1597 
  Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov 
  constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept 
  erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs lahf_lm 
  lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp 
  rep_good sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 
  tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xsave xsaveopt xtopology 
  xtpr 
  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: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations 
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected 
  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: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 1002:68d8 class ID: 0300 
  Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1200 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x317mm (20.0x12.5") 
  s-diag: 599mm (23.6") 
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 103 
  size: 474x296mm (18.7x11.7") diag: 559mm (22") 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD REDWOOD (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-21-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) 
  v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:1c20 class ID: 0403 
  Device-2: AMD Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5000 Series] 
  vendor: PC Partner Limited driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
  chip ID: 1002:aa60 class ID: 0403 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.0-21-amd64 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 class ID: 0200 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Message: No Bluetooth data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 704.24 GiB used: 249.3 GiB (35.4%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: MZ7LN256HMJP-00000 
  size: 238.47 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 100Q temp: 36 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST500DM002-1BD142 
  size: 465.76 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: KC45 temp: 40 C scheme: GPT 
  Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: TSSTcorp model: CDDVDW SH-224DB rev: SB00 
  dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw 
  Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes 
  rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 35.33 GiB size: 34.48 GiB (97.59%) used: 10.34 GiB (30.0%) 
  fs: ext4 block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda8 maj-min: 8:8 label: N/A 
  uuid: ffe059e3-3bc1-4383-9970-b2a226f98227 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) 
  used: 56.5 MiB (58.8%) fs: vfat block size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 
  maj-min: 8:1 label: EFI uuid: C632-CBD5 
  ID-3: /mnt/DATA raw size: 404.06 GiB size: 396.65 GiB (98.17%) 
  used: 238.9 GiB (60.2%) fs: ext4 block size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb1 
  maj-min: 8:17 label: DATA uuid: bee41684-b15c-4f6f-8511-77ea6624ad21 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 6.84 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 label: N/A 
  uuid: 40951ef9-753d-4128-9a7e-a8ec6628cfd5 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda12 maj-min: 8:12 size: 515 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: DA5204CC5204AEF7 
  ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 53.49 GiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 5460449560447FAA 
  ID-4: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 526 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: FEAC7D64AC7D17FB 
  ID-5: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 40.52 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A 
  uuid: db897649-4c09-400f-b64e-087f5285c9bc 
  ID-6: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 28.31 GiB fs: ext4 label: Mint-LXDE 
  uuid: 70086c2b-dd71-4f51-a0ce-fc6b00840fe0 
  ID-7: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 28.79 GiB fs: ext4 label: ROS-Plasma 
  uuid: 9bc5380e-6cb4-425b-9c72-a43a80304aaa 
  ID-8: /dev/sda9 maj-min: 8:9 size: 44.91 GiB fs: ext4 label: ROS-LXQt 
  uuid: e2afdfe0-c7df-42f7-8d2c-746283288d6c 
  ID-9: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19 size: 54.87 GiB fs: ext4 label: Mint-Cinnamon 
  uuid: 1cbd3ca6-fad2-4b57-a6ec-a1a2e482b7fa 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 class ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Silicon Labs USB OPTICAL MOUSE type: Mouse 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 10c4:8105 class ID: 0301 
  Device-2: 1-1.2:4 info: Chicony KU-0833 Keyboard type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 04f2:0833 class ID: 0300 
  Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 class ID: 0900 
  Hub-5: 2-1.5:3 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) USB 2.0 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0424:2514 class ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: radeon temp: 36.5 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 213 Uptime: 9m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 247 runlevel: 5 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 alt: 10 Packages: apt: 2132 lib: 1069 flatpak: 0 
  Shell: fish (sudo) v: 3.1.2 default: Bash v: 5.1.4 
  running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.01 
franz@lmde5 ~> 

This looks like a damaged iso file. Did you verify the checksums after copying it to the usb drive?

Thanks, @mithrial. Yes, I checked the iso twice. checksum is ok.

More info: The ventoy-usb-stick does boot, I have other distros on it, select Manjaro-cinnamon and it is booting ok.
I select language etc. , then select “boot” .
After that the installation fails with the black screen and the info you see on the screenshot

I tried to find a solution by creating an usb-live-stick without ventoy.
From that usb-stick Manjaro-Cinnamon was installed on my PC, but unfortunately the installation of the uefi-grub-entry failed.

So I installed Manjaro again , but without the uefi-boot-partition. Installation was successfull, but of course , Manjaro cannot be booted. Therefore I booted Reborn-OS (another arch-based distro) and did “sudo update-grub” there.
This update failed and gave me the same error which Manjaro-Calamares-installer produced:

Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
Syntax error at line 425
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.

Now I am stuck, because I don’t know how to fix this. I am sure there are no errors in /etc/default/grub because everything there is according to the wiki.
I installed a better grub on Reborn from chaotic-aur, but it gives the same error-message.

Booting from a Mint-distro will not help because no Ubuntu or Debian-based distro is able to boot Manjaro.

The live iso is fully and totally independent from your installation and grub. I don’t understand what you did.
Third party repos are even less supported than the AUR. I am at a loss here.

@mithrial,
I installed hundreds of distros on my PC.
Ubuntu-based, arch-based etc.
From that I remember that some distros cannot be installed from a ventoy-stick.
Therefore I installed to manjaro-iso on a single usb-stick and installed manjaro from that stick.

But the installation failed because of a grub-error.
I have no idea why that happened and what I did wrong. Nothing, I guess, because I installed dozens of distros from single-usb-sticks and dozens from ventoy-sticks.

Has nothing to do with AUR , because I installed not from AUR, but from Manjaro-iso.

Maybe I should not have mentioned RebornOS.

Ok. here is an excerpt from the Calamares installer log. There you can see the pure Manjaro-cinnamon live-iso and how it failed to install grub. Just forget about RebornOS please:

grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdc1.  Check your device.map.
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/sda1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Found Linux Mint 21.1 Vera (21.1) on /dev/sda6
Found RebornOS Linux (rolling) on /dev/sda7
Found LMDE 5 Elsie (5) on /dev/sda8
Found RebornOS Linux (rolling) on /dev/sda9
Found RebornOS Linux (rolling) on /dev/sdb3
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
Syntax error at line 460
Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
Ensure that there are no errors in /etc/default/grub
and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.new file attached.
2023-04-22 - 16:11:48 [2]: WARNING: [PYTHON JOB]: "Command 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' returned non-zero exit status 1." 

I’m not sure this helps but the manjaro cinnamon iso is old, last updated on the 4th of january.

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Thank you. I added the info about my PC in the 1st posting.

Besides that I tried to install Manjaro again, then 2 other Arch-based Distros (one of them is Archcraft-Xfce). They all failed with a similar error. Something wrong in the grub files.

A few minutes ago I installed PeppermintOS which is based on Debian-stable.
No problem at all, it installed perfectly.

Since I installed LMDE5 ( Linux Mint, based on Debian ) yesterday without errors and installed Linux-Mint-Cinnamon yesterday without any errors, this looks like a problem related only to arch-based Distros .

I have no idea why this happens.

I chrooted Manjaro as proposed in the Manjaro tutorials, but the same problem happens, nothing is getting done.

I will now install an arch-based distro offline, which produced no problems last week.
I am guessing that it will run through without errors because it is not getting access to the grub-files which are now in the repos.

My guess was wrong. Installation failed because of grub.

After that nothing could be booted anymore.
So I installed PeppermintOS and now I have a working Grub-menu on start and can at least boot alle the non-arch Distros.

So, bye bye Arch … until there is a solution for this.

This sorta sounds like you have an existing /boot that is encrypted, or an otherwise locked down grub/mbr.
I recall a similar thing happening on systems running fedora (I think).

Thanks, @cscs for your comment.
The last few hours I tried many things.

  1. Installed the latest iso , this time I selected Plasma.
    Installation went fine … until the bootloader had to be installed. It failed like all the other installations before. Syntax error

  2. I chrooted the new installed Manjaro Plasma straight from the live-usb.
    Failed each time. Syntax error.

  3. I tried many suggested solutions from the forum. Renaming some files. Re-installing grub …
    Nothing worked.

I gave up. Lost about 7 hours or more today and yesterday with this Syntax error, which results in failed installations of arch-based distros.

Installed - as already mentioned - several non-arch distros like Peppermint (Debian), Linux-Mint (Ubuntu), LMDE5 (Debian) … and they all installed without the error, just installed the bootloader like it should be.

By the way: I have an efi - PC.
Fedora didn´t work at all on this PC, I wasted many hours trying to install that monster, then gave up.
Of course there are people who install Fedora without problems. I bless them and hope that somewhere and somehow arch-based distros will come my way which install without that Syntax-error.

Today on Endeavour Telegram support channel, I got a solution.

I created a second ESP and in Calamares selected manual partitioning.
Selected the second ESP for boot and mounted it on /mnt/boot/efi
Selected a root-partition for Manjaro Plasma and Calamares installed without errors.


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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Manjaro fails to install brother-dcp165c

Linux - as ecosystem - does not have the backing of a multi-billion corporate - so generally speaking - any Linux will fail - unless of course RedHad or Novell.

Lucky punch.

The first series of ISOs which implement the rocket-launch-slideshow has a serious drawback - they require an excessive amount of available RAM to complete.

The OOM killer will kill the installer if the system has no less then 4GB ram - virtual or otherwise.


One of the perks of being an early adopter - using Arch - is to get the early bugs - if you don’t like that use Debian, RedHat, SuSE or Novell.

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