A few months back - looking to pull away from Windows I struggled to overcome OEM bios/EFI resistance but finally managed to install Manjaro.
All working fine until I tried to move the ‘Home’ directory and ended up with black screen! Accepted loss of data and re-installed Manjaro, from USB, still no good wouldn’t run, not stable.
Installed second Manjaro in a separate partition (fdisk sda5). Boot menu auto adjusted to give an additional Manjaro option, timer vanished. Old original installation (fdisk sda6) also started working!
Now no operating problems , both Manjaro installations boot and work no issues, sequence first calls boot0001 which for both, EfiBootManager shows file as EFI\Manjaro\grubx64.efi. Windows (fdisk sda3) also boots with no issues Windows, boot manager boot0000, file EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi.
Question is how best to remove the extra unwanted Manjaro installation, and tidy up the boot menu without digging myself into another hole. From what I gather three possibilities (none of which I’ve used before) *
- delete partition,
- uninstall Manjaro (think I’ve seem how to do that somewhere)
- rewind (think Ive seen that somewhere but not sure now whether that was just EfiBootManager)
Hope that all makes sense, appreciate any help.
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System:
Kernel: 6.1.53-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=5511fda8-d2a2-4346-b1e7-0b311a071b6e rw quiet splash
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.8 tk: Qt v: 5.15.10 wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1
dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Vostro 3559 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 9 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 047TR1 v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: 1.2.0 date: 06/27/2016
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 8.5 Wh (25.5%) condition: 33.3/41.4 Wh (80.4%) volts: 14.7
min: 14.8 model: SMP DELL VN3N047 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-6200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Skylake
gen: core 6 level: v3 note: check built: 2015 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: 0xF0
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 445 high: 497 min/max: 400/2800 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 497 2: 486 3: 400 4: 400
bogomips: 19204
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Vulnerable: No microcode
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 mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional,
RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Dell driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9 process: Intel 14n built: 2015-16 ports: active: eDP-1
empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1916 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Suyin Integrated_Webcam_HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 064e:9209
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.0
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1366x768 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.1.7-1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:1916 memory: 15.15 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.264 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 23.1.7-1
device-ID: 8086:1916 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl, snd_soc_avs, snd_sof_pci_intel_skl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d70 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Logitech H600 [Wireless Headset]
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 046d:0a29 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.1.53-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.80 status: off with: wireplumber status: active
tools: pw-cli,wpctl
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:08b3 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-8:5 chip-ID: 8087:07dc
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 8 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 10.98 GiB (2.4%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD5000LPLX-00ZNTT0 size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 1A01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 48.83 GiB size: 47.76 GiB (97.81%) used: 10.98 GiB (23.0%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C pch: 39.0 C mobo: 35.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 175 Uptime: 1d 19h 26m wakeups: 18239 Memory: total: 16 GiB
available: 15.52 GiB used: 2.89 GiB (18.6%) Init: systemd v: 254
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 clang: 16.0.6
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1185 libs: 368 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.30