After updating , GRUB never shows up for me on my BIOS machine (not running UEFI), I just boot into a black screen with no error messages.
I was able to boot into an older installation fine.
I also chrooted in and reinstalled grub, but no luck.
I’m not really sure what to try next.
Here’s the output of inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width after chrooting into the system:
System:
Kernel 5.13.15-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits 64 compiler gcc v 11.1.0
parameters BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_XFCEM_2113 quiet systemd.show_status=1
apparmor=1 security=apparmor driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1
radeon.modeset=1
Desktop Xfce info xfce4-panel wm xfwm dm N/A Distro Manjaro Linux
base Arch Linux
Machine:
Type Desktop Mobo Gigabyte model X58A-UD3R v x.x serial N/A BIOS Award v FA
date 04/20/2010
Battery:
Message No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM total 23.48 GiB used 1.85 GiB (7.9%)
Array-1 capacity 48 GiB slots 6 EC None max-module-size 8 GiB note est.
voltage 5.0
Device-1 A0 size 8 GiB info single-bank speed 400 MT/s type Unknown
detail none bus-width 2050 bits total 2304 bits manufacturer N/A part-no N/A
serial N/A
Device-2 A1 size No Module Installed
Device-3 A2 size 8 GiB info single-bank speed 400 MT/s type Unknown
detail none bus-width 2050 bits total 2304 bits manufacturer N/A part-no N/A
serial N/A
Device-4 A3 size No Module Installed
Device-5 A4 size 8 GiB info single-bank speed 400 MT/s type Unknown
detail none bus-width 2050 bits total 2304 bits manufacturer N/A part-no N/A
serial N/A
Device-6 A5 size No Module Installed
CPU:
Info Quad Core model Intel Core i7 930 socket 478 (1366) note check bits 64
type MT MCP arch Nehalem family 6 model-id 1A (26) stepping 5 microcode 1D
cache L1 64 KiB L2 8 MiB bogomips 45359
Speed 1619 MHz min/max 1596/2794 MHz base/boost 2933/4000 boost enabled
volts 1.0 V ext-clock 133 MHz Core speeds (MHz) 1 1619 2 1619 3 1619 4 1618
5 1619 6 1619 7 1619 8 1619
Flags acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept est flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr
ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx
pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx
vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities Type itlb_multihit status KVM: VMX disabled
Type l1tf
mitigation PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type mds
status Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
Type meltdown mitigation PTI
Type spec_store_bypass
mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type spectre_v1
mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type spectre_v2 mitigation Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type srbds status Not affected
Type tsx_async_abort status Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1 AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] vendor Tul
driver amdgpu v kernel bus-ID 03:00.0 chip-ID 1002:67df class-ID 0300
Display server X.org 1.20.13 compositor xfwm4 driver loaded amdgpu,ati
unloaded modesetting alternate fbdev,vesa resolution <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL renderer Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.41.0 5.13.15-1-MANJARO
LLVM 12.0.1)
v 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 direct render Yes
Audio:
Device-1 Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H
driver snd_hda_intel v kernel bus-ID 00:1b.0 chip-ID 8086:3a3e class-ID 0403
Device-2 AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor Tul driver snd_hda_intel v kernel bus-ID 03:00.1 chip-ID 1002:aaf0
class-ID 0403
Device-3 Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen type USB
driver snd-usb-audio bus-ID 1-4:2 chip-ID 1235:8202 class-ID 0102
Sound Server-1 ALSA v k5.13.15-1-MANJARO running yes
Sound Server-2 JACK v 1.9.19 running no
Sound Server-3 PulseAudio v 15.0 running yes
Sound Server-4 PipeWire v 0.3.37 running no
Network:
Device-1 Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor ASUSTeK
driver rt2800pci v 2.3.0 port eb00 bus-ID 06:00.0 chip-ID 1814:0781
class-ID 0280
IF wlp6s0 state down mac <filter>
Device-2 Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor Gigabyte driver r8169 v kernel port ce00 bus-ID 08:00.0
chip-ID 10ec:8168 class-ID 0200
IF enp8s0 state up speed 100 Mbps duplex full mac <filter>
IP v4 <filter> type dynamic noprefixroute scope global broadcast <filter>
IP v6 <filter> type noprefixroute scope link
WAN IP <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1 ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type USB driver btusb v 0.8 bus-ID 9-2:2
chip-ID 0b05:190e class-ID e001 serial <filter>
Report rfkill ID hci0 rfk-id 1 state down bt-service N/A rfk-block
hardware no software yes address see --recommends
Logical:
Device-1 VG vgMain type LVM2 size 952.86 GiB free 0 KiB
LV-1 lvRoot maj-min 254:1 type linear dm dm-1 size 952.86 GiB
Components
c-1 dm-0 maj-min 254:0 mapped root size 952.87 GiB
pp-1 sdb2 maj-min 8:18 size 952.87 GiB
RAID:
Message No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage total 1.87 TiB used 378.04 GiB (19.7%)
SMART Message Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1 /dev/sda maj-min 8:0 vendor Seagate model ST31000528AS size 931.51 GiB
block-size physical 512 B logical 512 B speed 3.0 Gb/s type N/A
serial <filter> rev CC38
ID-2 /dev/sdb maj-min 8:16 model SATA SSD size 953.87 GiB block-size
physical 512 B logical 512 B speed 1.5 Gb/s type SSD serial <filter>
rev Y1.3
ID-3 /dev/sdc maj-min 8:32 type USB model USB DISK 3.0 size 28.88 GiB
block-size physical 512 B logical 512 B speed <unknown> type N/A
serial <filter> rev PMAP
Floppy-1 /dev/fd0
Optical-1 /dev/sr0 vendor ASUS model DRW-24B1ST rev 1.03 dev-links cdrom
Features speed 48 multisession yes audio yes dvd yes
rw cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state running
Partition:
ID-1 / raw-size 952.86 GiB size 936.91 GiB (98.33%) used 378.04 GiB (40.4%)
fs ext4 block-size 4096 B dev /dev/dm-1 maj-min 254:1 mapped vgMain-lvRoot
label N/A uuid N/A
Swap:
Alert No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1 /dev/dm-0 maj-min 254:0 mapped root size 952.87 GiB fs N/A label N/A
uuid N/A
ID-2 /dev/sda1 maj-min 8:1 size 1024 MiB fs ext4 label N/A
uuid acdc0ac3-a715-4d28-9946-d3bddcd09b3d
ID-3 /dev/sda2 maj-min 8:2 size 317.38 GiB fs N/A label N/A
uuid 5c937e94-2d94-4ecd-a801-fb02233b1e33
ID-4 /dev/sda4 maj-min 8:4 size 1 KiB fs N/A label N/A uuid N/A
ID-5 /dev/sda5 maj-min 8:5 size 9.3 GiB fs ext4 label N/A
uuid e9297375-5972-4899-ab84-2f9ad15f3331
ID-6 /dev/sda6 maj-min 8:6 size 50.76 GiB fs ext4 label N/A
uuid 7bde69cd-b841-4bb8-b29c-be7c8461a1fb
ID-7 /dev/sda7 maj-min 8:7 size 29.3 GiB fs ext4 label N/A
uuid ae6e495b-4118-4626-b5e0-a1df60717b40
ID-8 /dev/sda8 maj-min 8:8 size 166.48 GiB fs N/A label N/A
uuid ee81d8c9-878f-4e39-b8fd-989d8ed6e5a7
ID-9 /dev/sdb1 maj-min 8:17 size 1024 MiB fs ext4 label N/A
uuid d7e9da53-21f4-4dbd-8822-7324e175f1f8
ID-10 /dev/sdb2 maj-min 8:18 size 952.87 GiB fs N/A label N/A
uuid 77f4772d-bc88-46df-bbb2-f65a3136fa7d
ID-11 /dev/sdc1 maj-min 8:33 size 2.17 GiB fs N/A label MANJARO_XFCEM_2113
uuid 2021-09-16-11-59-48-00
ID-12 /dev/sdc2 maj-min 8:34 size 4 MiB fs N/A label MISO_EFI uuid E1A5-412D
USB:
Hub-1 1-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 6 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
Device-1 1-4:2 info Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen
type Audio driver snd-usb-audio interfaces 4 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s
power 500mA chip-ID 1235:8202 class-ID 0102
Hub-2 1-5:3 info NEC HighSpeed Hub ports 3 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s
power 100mA chip-ID 0409:005a class-ID 0900
Device-1 1-5.1:5 info Topre HHKB Professional type Keyboard
driver hid-generic,usbhid interfaces 1 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s power 100mA
chip-ID 0853:0100 class-ID 0301
Hub-3 2-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 6 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
Device-1 2-3:2 info Kingston SP Mobile C31 (64GB) type Mass Storage
driver usb-storage interfaces 1 rev 2.1 speed 480 Mb/s power 300mA
chip-ID 13fe:6300 class-ID 0806 serial <filter>
Hub-4 3-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Hub-5 4-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Hub-6 5-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Device-1 5-2:2 info Razer USA Naga Hex V2 type Mouse,Keyboard
driver hid-generic,usbhid interfaces 3 rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s power 500mA
chip-ID 1532:0050 class-ID 0300
Hub-7 6-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Hub-8 7-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Hub-9 8-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0001 class-ID 0900
Hub-10 9-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
Device-1 9-2:2 info ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type Bluetooth driver btusb
interfaces 2 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s power 500mA chip-ID 0b05:190e
class-ID e001 serial <filter>
Hub-11 10-0:1 info Full speed (or root) Hub ports 2 rev 3.0 speed 5 Gb/s
chip-ID 1d6b:0003 class-ID 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures cpu 69.0 C mobo N/A gpu amdgpu temp 47.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM) N/A gpu amdgpu fan 1674
Info:
Processes 320 Uptime 3m wakeups 0 Init systemd v 249 tool systemctl
Compilers gcc 11.1.0 clang 12.0.1 Packages 2008 pacman 2002 lib 482
flatpak 6 Client shell wrapper v 5.1.8-release inxi 3.3.06
Here’s some more clarification on the setup/situation
The drive which I am trying to boot from is /dev/sdb.
The old manjaro installation is on /dev/sda2
I have luks on /dev/sdb2, with lvm for root, and boot on /dev/sdb1
I haven’t had any issues (to my knowledge) with the encryption/etc., I just can’t get grub to load installed on /dev/sdb
Thank you for any assistance! Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide that would be helpful.
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Fabby
25 September 2021 13:21
9
As you have a BIOS machine and everything checks out, can you install GRUB to the MBR of both hard drives and try booting the other one???
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I will try. I will update once it is done.
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I was able to put grub on my other drive (sda) with a menuentry for my install on (sdb2). It boots fine when I do that. I am trying to reinstall grub again on sdb now that I am on my system not chrooted.
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Fabby
25 September 2021 13:53
12
STOP!
smartctl --all /dev/sdb
first because if it didn’t work the first time, your HDD might be dying.
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Here it is:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.14.7-2-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SATA SSD
Serial Number: 21040110240701
LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000
Firmware Version: SBFMY1.3
User Capacity: 1,024,209,543,168 bytes [1.02 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
TRIM Command: Available
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Sat Sep 25 09:59:49 2021 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (65535) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 30) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 282
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 90
168 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
170 Unknown_Attribute 0x0003 050 050 010 Pre-fail Always - 1473
173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 65546
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 53
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0023 067 067 000 Pre-fail Always - 33 (Min/Max 33/33)
218 Unknown_Attribute 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
231 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0013 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 99
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 556
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0
Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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Fabby
25 September 2021 14:02
18
That looks good, please proceed and my apologies for stopping you!
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No worries! It was a good idea to check. I will update once I try.
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Here’s output from the reinstall of grub. It’s not different from before, but just for completeness sake.
From grub-install --force --target=i386-pc --recheck --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sdb:
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.14-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.14-x86_64-fallback.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64-fallback.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.19-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-4.19-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-4.19-x86_64-fallback.img
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
[...]
done
Trying to boot now.
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Still didn’t work. It just went to a black screen as before. I can try copying my grub config from the other drive to see if the issue is there.
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Fabby
25 September 2021 14:20
22
Well… You have a BIOS machine, just set the default to boot from SDA, boot from there and then provide another full inxi when booted but you have 1 solution already!
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Using the other configuration’s header it boots fine from sdb. So that’s where the problem seems to be. Here’s another inxi while booted.
inxi:
System:
Kernel: 5.14.7-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.14-x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/vgMain-lvRoot
rw quiet
cryptdevice=UUID=77f4772d-bc88-46df-bbb2-f65a3136fa7d:root:allow-discards,no-read-workqueue,no-write-workqueue
Desktop: bspwm 0.9.10 info: polybar dm: Ly 0.5.1.r0.gf6658f8
Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: X58A-UD3R v: x.x serial: N/A BIOS: Award
v: FA date: 04/20/2010
Battery:
Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
RAM: total: 23.48 GiB used: 2.73 GiB (11.6%)
Array-1: capacity: 48 GiB slots: 6 EC: None max-module-size: 8 GiB
note: est. voltage: 5.0
Device-1: A0 size: 8 GiB info: single-bank speed: 400 MT/s type: Unknown
detail: none bus-width: 2050 bits total: 2304 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-2: A1 size: No Module Installed
Device-3: A2 size: 8 GiB info: single-bank speed: 400 MT/s type: Unknown
detail: none bus-width: 2050 bits total: 2304 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-4: A3 size: No Module Installed
Device-5: A4 size: 8 GiB info: single-bank speed: 400 MT/s type: Unknown
detail: none bus-width: 2050 bits total: 2304 bits manufacturer: N/A
part-no: N/A serial: N/A
Device-6: A5 size: No Module Installed
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 930 socket: 478 (1366) note: check
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Nehalem family: 6 model-id: 1A (26) stepping: 5
microcode: 1D cache: L1: 64 KiB L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 45358
Speed: 1697 MHz min/max: 1596/2794 MHz base/boost: 2933/4000 boost: enabled
volts: 1.0 V ext-clock: 133 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1697 2: 1738 3: 1732
4: 1797 5: 1857 6: 1630 7: 1866 8: 1809
Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept est flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr
ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx
pae pat pbe pdcm pebs pge pni popcnt pse pse36 pti rdtscp rep_good sep ssbd
sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc vme vmx
vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds
status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
vendor: Tul driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df
class-ID: 0300
Display: server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: picom v: git-6d874 driver:
loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.42.0
5.14.7-2-MANJARO LLVM 12.0.1)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801JI HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS5/GA-EG45M-DS2H
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:3a3e
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Ellesmere HDMI Audio [Radeon RX 470/480 / 570/580/590]
vendor: Tul driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
chip-ID: 1002:aaf0 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen type: USB
driver: snd-usb-audio bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 1235:8202 class-ID: 0102
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.7-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: rt2800pci v: 2.3.0 port: eb00 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 1814:0781
class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.049.02-NAPI modules: r8169 port: ce00
bus-ID: 08:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp8s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 9-2:2 chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Device-1: VG: vgMain type: LVM2 size: 952.86 GiB free: 0 KiB
LV-1: lvRoot maj-min: 254:1 type: linear dm: dm-1 size: 952.86 GiB
Components:
c-1: dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 mapped: root size: 952.87 GiB
pp-1: sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 952.87 GiB
Device-2: root maj-min: 254:0 type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 952.87 GiB
Components:
p-1: sdb2 maj-min: 8:18 size: 952.87 GiB
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 377.99 GiB (20.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST31000528AS
family: Barracuda 7200.12 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B sata: 2.6 speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200
serial: <filter> rev: CC38 scheme: MBR
SMART: yes state: disabled
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 model: SATA SSD size: 953.87 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.2 speed: 1.5 Gb/s type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: Y1.3 scheme: MBR
SMART: yes state: disabled
Floppy-1: /dev/fd0
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: ASUS model: DRW-24B1ST rev: 1.03
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 48 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 952.86 GiB size: 936.91 GiB (98.33%)
used: 377.76 GiB (40.3%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/dm-1
maj-min: 254:1 mapped: vgMain-lvRoot label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 975.9 MiB (95.30%)
used: 226.4 MiB (23.2%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sdb1
maj-min: 8:17 label: N/A uuid: d7e9da53-21f4-4dbd-8822-7324e175f1f8
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 1024 MiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: acdc0ac3-a715-4d28-9946-d3bddcd09b3d
ID-2: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 size: 1 KiB fs: N/A label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 size: 9.3 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: e9297375-5972-4899-ab84-2f9ad15f3331
ID-4: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 size: 50.76 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: 7bde69cd-b841-4bb8-b29c-be7c8461a1fb
ID-5: /dev/sda7 maj-min: 8:7 size: 29.3 GiB fs: ext4 label: N/A
uuid: ae6e495b-4118-4626-b5e0-a1df60717b40
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Focusrite-Novation Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 2nd Gen
type: Audio driver: snd-usb-audio interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 500mA chip-ID: 1235:8202 class-ID: 0102
Hub-2: 1-5:3 info: NEC HighSpeed Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 0409:005a class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-5.1:5 info: Topre HHKB Professional type: Keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 0853:0100 class-ID: 0301
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 5-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 5-2:2 info: Razer USA Naga Hex V2 type: Mouse,Keyboard
driver: razermouse,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA
chip-ID: 1532:0050 class-ID: 0300
Hub-7: 6-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-8: 7-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-9: 8-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0001 class-ID: 0900
Hub-10: 9-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 9-2:2 info: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0b05:190e
class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-11: 10-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 88.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 58.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 1661
Info:
Processes: 300 Uptime: 8m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: 2009 pacman: 2003 lib: 482
flatpak: 6 Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.8 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.06
But it seems that the problem is some change in the grub.cfg header.
Fabby
25 September 2021 14:34
24
As you have a BIOS machine and everything checks out, can you install GRUB to the MBR of both hard drives and try booting the other one???
However, if you disagree with my choice, please feel free to take any other answer as the solution to your question or even remove the solution altogether: You are in control! (If you disagree with my choice, just send me a personal message and explain why I shouldn’t have done this or
Last piece of advice and unrelated to your issue, but please read this too!
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In the grub.cfg
Before it was generating the following in part of the header (the rest of the header is the same):
if loadfont unicode ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_input console
terminal_output gfxterm
Whereas now instead is:
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod lvm
insmod ext2
set root='lvmid/PdJjls-nVTK-anYR-F72F-fj7J-7yK6-APqS1c/Zzw0Fi-r8fS-23PA-U4Cp-BK3R-yYjk-MP8h
BJ'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvmid/PdJjls-nVTK-anYR-F72F-fj7J-7yK6-APq
S1c/Zzw0Fi-r8fS-23PA-U4Cp-BK3R-yYjk-MP8hBJ' 95512e4d-8c3b-408a-9e7d-2ed97c7dab15
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 95512e4d-8c3b-408a-9e7d-2ed97c7dab15
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_input console
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod lvm
insmod ext2
set root='lvmid/PdJjls-nVTK-anYR-F72F-fj7J-7yK6-APqS1c/Zzw0Fi-r8fS-23PA-U4Cp-BK3R-yYjk-MP8h
BJ'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint='lvmid/PdJjls-nVTK-anYR-F72F-fj7J-7yK6-APq
S1c/Zzw0Fi-r8fS-23PA-U4Cp-BK3R-yYjk-MP8hBJ' 95512e4d-8c3b-408a-9e7d-2ed97c7dab15
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 95512e4d-8c3b-408a-9e7d-2ed97c7dab15
fi
insmod gfxmenu
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_12.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_14.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_16.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_24.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_48.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_bold_16.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/dejavu_sans_mono_12.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-12.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-14.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-16.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-18.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-b12.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-b14.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-b16.pf2
loadfont ($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/terminus-b18.pf2
insmod png
set theme=($root)/usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
export theme
I’m not sure what changed, but replacing it with the old header fixed the issue.
Thank you again for all the assistance!
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Fabby
25 September 2021 14:39
26
Keep a backup of that!
BIOS machines are getting rare these days so don’t get as much testing as UEFI machines!!!
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