Removed kernel now boots to a black screen that shows my hard drives

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I removed the kernel I was using which was unsupported then I installed kernel 5.10. After rebooting it goes to a black screen that just has the text that shows the hard drives, what should I do to fix this?

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Hi,
does that mean, that you are able to boot into the konsole (terminal)?
Maybe your VGA drivers are not loading correctly, after you did a kernel-switch (install)

I am very new to Manjaro, only know this from Debian (which I know far better than Manjaro).

PS: Switched to Manjaro about a month ago.

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i am able to do ctrl+alt+f2 and then get into TTY.

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which VGA card do you use?

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nvidia gtx 960

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just a try in the konsole (tty)

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

then reboot.

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it says

>Skipping already installed config 'video-nvidia' for device 0000:01:0.0 (03000:10de:1401) Display controller nVidia Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]
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What is the output of inxi -G ?
What is the output of inxi -S ?

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What’s the output of

mhwd-kernel -li
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inxi -G:

Graphics:
 Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] driver: N/A
 Display server: X.org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: nvidia tty: 160x64
 Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.

inxi -S:

System:
 Host: pc Kernel: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 2 Distro: Manjaro Linux
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Currently running: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO (linux510)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
 * linux510
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It didn’t say anything about video drivers when you typed in mhwd -li ?

It looks like you don’t have a video driver installed but still have the config.

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as far as I know

Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] driver: N/A

driver: N/A means the driver isn’t loaded/installed. (perhaps the kernel-module isnt loaded)
But perhaps the gurus here have more useful info.

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He might be able to use the same command you gave him before with a -f or --force flag to force it to go through but I don’t know if that could cause other issues.

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i ran it again and it says this for

>Installed PCI configs

name: video -nvidia
version: 2021.12.18
freedriver:false
type:pci

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alright, i fixed it by installing linux510-nvidia

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