Hello everybody! After 2 days of no error installation I’m here again, This time after complete installation I’m stuck at bootloader, After normal boot I’m prompted by grub menu to choose either Windows or Manjaro, I select Manjaro (XFCE) and then I see with black screen and a mouse for second, and …

[image] sjyv: drive? this is the first issue I’ve come up with my drive Drives all fail at some point. You hope they last a long time, but they don’t last forever. [image] sjyv: Yes the HDD has definitely got problems and because of GPT MBR issue I installed Manjaro onto my SATA SSD. Man…

[image] sjyv: guess I should go on with advance options? Yes, I’d do that. You’ll get to choose a fallback kernel or a different one, if you have more than one installed. [image] sjyv: Previously I was unable to poweroff so I forced shut down by pressing the power button. Due to that…

Yes I tried with different kernel (Fallback initramfs) and that thing also stuck in boot loop, so I tried Alt + Fn + Ctrl +1-6 and I did got into TTY mode but due to boot loop it was stuck. I pressed Shut Down button then, and it also took long , I pressed escape button got following error: BTRFS E…

I cannot advise here - I’m next to ignorant when it comes to system issues which may be BTRFS related. There is no hardware info here - perhaps in the other thread, but not here.

Boot up from the live USB, and without mounting your installed system, run a btrfs check on it. :point_down: sudo btrfs check --backup --progress --mode lowmem /dev/sda5 Mind you that this process is going to take quite a bit of time, but you should see its progress on the screen. Once the proces…

I did btrfs check --repair command before seeing this, and it repaired but that didn’t work, trying this will be different? or should I go with clean install again?

[image] sjyv: I did btrfs check --repair command before seeing this, and it repaired but that didn’t work, trying this will be different? It could help, if it’s only a filesystem error. However, I suspect that your drive itself may be dying. [image] sjyv: or should I go with clean insta…

[image] Aragorn: It could help, if it’s only a filesystem error. However, I suspect that your drive itself may be dying. drive? this is the first issue I’ve come up with my drive, and I did a lot of AUR installs, was trying to set something up so that might have caused this? and should I cho…

[image] sjyv: this is the first issue I’ve come up with my drive, No it’s not. Your previous thread “ Installation Error - Failure reading sector from 'hd1' ” already showed problems with your HDD, and given the age of your machine, it’s not unlikely that the drive is starting to become unreli…

[image] Aragorn: No it’s not. Your previous thread “ Installation Error - Failure reading sector from ‘hd1’ ” already showed problems with your HDD, and given the age of your machine, it’s not unlikely that the drive is starting to become unreliable. Yes the HDD has definitely got problems and …