Hi,
I’m new to this forum and I’m a noob when it comes to computers, I thank in advance everybody who’s willing to help me saving my laptop.
Yesterday I did a pacman -Syu and today I found out that when the laptop is booted, it gets stuck and says the following thing:
I’m able to login into TTY but I don’t know what to do with it. The laptop we’re talking about is a relatively old macbook with Manjaro only, the graphics card is Intel Iris Graphics 6100.
I’ve some important uni files there that I can’t lose Thank you for your help!
Are you sure? Did you previously try ubuntu and left its Grub installed or something of the sort?
Upon some further thought … I suppose its possible you either installed some package or executed some command that would have created ‘UBUNTU’ in the output … but it would have to be some rather specific things.
With a normal manjaro boot this output would come from fsck check and look something like this:
UBUNTU: [something] was always there, even when the laptop worked fine. I’m sure Ubuntu was never installed there since it was a normal macbook and I installed Manjaro linux. If I run “fsck” from TTY it says:
fsck from util-linux 2.38.1
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you WILL cause SEVERE filesystem damage.
I’m sorry for my noobness, I don’t really know where to select the USB boot. By pressing Fn keys I get only to a screen that says Manjaro on top. The options are
Manjaro Linux
Advanced Options for Manjaro Linux
UEFI Firmware Settings
Thank you very much for your help
On macbooks hold the ‘options’ key during power-on to get a menu where you can chose to boot from usb.
Once you’re in the live system you could also pamac install efibootmgr
then run sudo efibootmgr
and show us the output. It lists all uefi entries and will show if there ever was an ubuntu.
Thank you everybody for your quick responses, you’ve been very helpful, I’m now reinstalling Manjaro after succesfully saving thr important files on a usb stick. Thank you all!!!
The ‘UBUNTU’ in that message can be safely ignored.
It only exists because (at some time) Ubuntu must have been installed to that partition (which I presume is now Manjaro’s / [root]); ‘UBUNTU’ was previously written to the volume LABEL, and still remains.
If the label is now changed to something like “DukeNukem”, on the next boot the message would then read as: