System will not boot after installing kernel 6x, or clean install

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Hello there!

I have a laptop with a 11th gen intel chip, and a NVIDIA graphics chip. I have not been able to get Manjaro on any kernel 6 (6.1, 6.2 or 6.3), i always drop to an emergency shell at startup. I’ve tried:

  • Using an image with kernel 5.15, upgrading to kernel 6.1: got dropped in the emergency shell (kernel 515 still works).
  • Install using the latest image from Manjaro (kernel 6.1): emergency shell. This option is a little strange, live ISO (linux61) does not see my SSD in disk, and chroot fails as it does not find a linux partition.

I’ve read that 11th gen causes some trouble with kernel > 5, so i tried putting ibt=off while on live iso (manjaro-chroot) on my grub, still no effect.
Tried upgrading all drivers as well, but the results are always the same, emergency shell.

Currently, i have a clean installation using the latest ISO from manjaro, and can only chroot it from a 515 live ISO, where i installed the nvidia package via pacman.
I’m a little lost on what to do, any help would be great!

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Well you can provide the output of inxi -FSxx to have more info. hwinfo would give you more details about your PC. You can use services like pastebin to share the content here.

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uname -r on the chroot session is showing kernel 5.15, but the installed system is manjaro 22.1.0 - Talos.
mhwd-kernel -li show runnig as 5.15 and installed lists linux61
The cat /etc/lsb-release shows:

DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.1.0
DISTRIB_CODENAME=Talos
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how did you add ibt=off? did you updated grub afterwards?
post output from:
mhwd -l -li

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in the /etc/default/grub on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
The ran sudo update-grub

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so post logs from the failed boot:
journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager

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it returns:

No journal files found
Data from the especified boot (-1) is not available: No such boot ID in journal
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i thought you are in chroot… so are you normally booted with 5.15 kernel now?

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Well, i am in chroot O.o
The system still does not boot
The current status is a clean install of 21.1.0 (linux61). This does not boot.
i’m chrooting from a 515 majaro image, since the linux61 ISO does not find my boot ssd :confused:

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well it should shown the logs from the failed boot…
try enable early loading:
nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
and edit the modules section to look like this:

MODULES=(i915 nvidia nvidia_drm nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset)

save it with ctrl+x press ‘y’, then enter and update it:
mkinitcpio -P
if no errors, exit chroot, reboot and test if you can boot …

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So is it right that you can install (and it fails to boot) but from liveUSB you can’t find the drive afterwards? It does not make much sense

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No effect.
It generated with no problem, rebooted, but still it goes to the emergency shell.
It shows:

device UUID=<uuid> not found. Skipping fsck
mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<uuid>
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh:can't acess tty; job control turned off
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Yes, the liveUSB finds it if the SSD is formatted or with another system. After installing linux61, it vanishes from it. It still shows up on a linux515 liveUSB.

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so there were here recently similar issues with cant find uuid, and downgrading mkkinicpio helped, so give it a try:

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How do you check if the drive is available? Do you use btrfs as the bug that brahma points out?
I have a hard time believing that the drive completely/physically disappears depending on the file system of one of the partitions on it.
Use lsblk -f or fdisk -l to list drives and partitions when you are in the liveUSB with kernel 6.x

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Downgraded to version 34 (current is 35.1), them to version 30. Still the same.

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Well, i have two SSDs on this system, both PCIe. Only one shows up at a time. Right now the 512GB (The one with the linux) is showing up and i can even chroot into it. The 256 with the windows is absent. Last two times i booted with the liveUSB only the 256 showed up O.o

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are you on raid or ahci? post output from:
inxi -R
post also the lsblk and fdisk outputs as requested above;

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12RAID:
12Message No RAID data found

The other SSD is missing from those as well.

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I just checked in bios as well, mode is set to AHCI