Installed latest Manjaro KDE on a 12 year old Acer laptop with a single mbr hd and no option to change to uefi in bios. Managed to get it working after creating an efi boot partition. Strange thing is though when I reboot the computer I get nothing but a blank screen, no grub menu, no nothing. If I turn the laptop off though it boots just fine. Some facts:
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System: Kernel: 5.8.6-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire 5560 v: 0.1 serial:
Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5560 v: A11 serial: UEFI: Phoenix v: 1.15
date: 12/05/2011
Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 34.5 Wh condition: 34.5/48.8 Wh (71%) model: LION status: Full
CPU: Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A6-3420M APU with Radeon HD Graphics bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Fusion L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm bogomips: 11981
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 819 2: 801 3: 803 4: 801
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Sumo [Radeon HD 6520G] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: radeon
v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0
Device-2: Alcor Micro Acer Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 2-3:3
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: radeon FAILED: ati unloaded: modesetting
resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD SUMO (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.8.6-1-MANJARO LLVM 10.0.1)
v: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1
Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:14.2
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.6-1-MANJARO
Network: Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: tg3 v: kernel port: 2100 bus ID: 01:00.0
IF: enp1s0f0 state: down mac:
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM43227 802.11b/g/n vendor: Foxconn driver: wl
v: kernel port: 2100 bus ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlp2s0 state: dormant mac:
Device-3: NetGear WNA3100M(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Realtek RTL8192CU] type: USB
driver: rtl8192cu bus ID: 2-2:2
IF: wlp0s19f2u2 state: up mac:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 126.11 GiB used: 9.88 GiB (7.8%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 120GB size: 111.79 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Ultra Fit size: 14.32 GiB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 63.81 GiB used: 9.88 GiB (15.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 41 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 167 Uptime: 14m Memory: 3.33 GiB used: 641.3 MiB (18.8%) Init: systemd
Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1201 Client: KDE Plasma v: 5.19.5 inxi: 3.1.05
Disk /dev/sda: 111,79 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 850
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xf4c9408d
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 337919 335872 164M b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 337920 430079 92160 45M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 430080 97421311 96991232 46,2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 97421312 234440703 137019392 65,3G 83 Linux