The system cannot find any bootable devices

[juliohm]

I updated Manjaro with pamac before the holidays and everything seemed fine. I remember even restarting the system to make sure the installation was successful. Now I’m coming back from the holidays and I cannot turn on the desktop. The BIOS menu shows up saying that the system cannot find any bootable devices.

Can you please provide any help? How to debug this issue further?

[andreas85]

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Maybe when you boot into a live usb or ISO you could gather this information

[maycne.sonahoz]

On a liveUSB, list all the drives and partitions seen by the system.

lsblk -af

[juliohm]

Following the recommendations in the second link, and running the command from a live USB…

[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC 
  driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1 
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDEM_2012 quiet systemd.show_status=1 
  apparmor=1 security=apparmor 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF B360M-PLUS GAMING/BR v: Rev X.0x 
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 2401 date: 03/22/2019 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 31.28 GiB used: 1.28 GiB (4.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: D (13) microcode: D6 
  L2 cache: 12.0 MiB bogomips: 48016 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities 
  arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts erms est f16c 
  flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify 
  ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca 
  mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe 
  pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand 
  rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 
  ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic 
  xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  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: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled 
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nouveau 
  v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2184 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 
  driver: modesetting,nouveau alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa display ID: :0 
  screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 10.0.1 256 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 20.1.8 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip ID: 8086:a348 
  Device-2: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:1aeb 
  Device-3: Logitech OrbiCam type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo 
  bus ID: 1-2:2 chip ID: 046d:0892 serial: <filter> 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k 
  port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 chip ID: 8086:15bc 
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 14.56 GiB used: 277.7 MiB (1.9%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda type: USB vendor: Generic model: Flash Disk size: 14.56 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter> rev: 8.07 
  scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: N/A size: 23.46 GiB used: 277.7 MiB (1.2%) fs: overlay 
  source: ERR-102 label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /run/miso/bootmnt raw size: 2.21 GiB size: <superuser/root required> 
  used: <superuser/root required> fs: iso9660 dev: /dev/sda1 
  label: MANJARO_KDEM_2012 uuid: 2020-10-19-13-24-36-00 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/sda2 size: 4.0 MiB fs: vfat label: MISO_EFI uuid: 2AD3-DF12 
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Logitech OrbiCam type: Video,Audio 
  driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 046d:0892 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-10:3 info: Shenzhen Rapoo Rapoo 2.4G Wireless Device 
  type: Mouse,Keyboard driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 24ae:2010 
  Device-3: 1-11:4 info: Alcor Micro Flash Drive type: Mass Storage 
  driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 058f:6387 serial: <filter> 
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
  Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 35 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 912 
Info:
  Processes: 220 Uptime: 18m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A 
  Packages: pacman: 1054 lib: 282 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole 
  inxi: 3.1.05

[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ lsblk -af
NAME   FSTYPE   FSVER            LABEL             UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
loop0  squashfs 4.0                                                                           0   100% /run/miso/sfs/livefs
loop1  squashfs 4.0                                                                           0   100% /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs
loop2  squashfs 4.0                                                                           0   100% /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs
loop3  squashfs 4.0                                                                           0   100% /run/miso/sfs/rootfs
loop4                                                                                                  
loop5                                                                                                  
loop6                                                                                                  
loop7                                                                                                  
sda    iso9660  Joliet Extension MANJARO_KDEM_2012 2020-10-19-13-24-36-00                              
├─sda1 iso9660  Joliet Extension MANJARO_KDEM_2012 2020-10-19-13-24-36-00                     0   100% /run/miso/bootmnt
└─sda2 vfat     FAT12            MISO_EFI          2AD3-DF12

The live USB is with Kernel 5.8, but I was using kernel 5.10 due to my NVIDIA GPU.

[juliohm]

Any recent update that could have caused this problem with the m2 drive?

[maycne.sonahoz]

The drive doesn’t show up, that’s bad news…

This is likely hardware related:

• Faulty drive?
  • Try putting the drive in another computer you know it works.
• Faulty connection?
  • Check the power line is correctly plugged in the drive.
  • Check the drive is correctly plugged in the M.2 slot.
  • Try switching your drive with another you know it works.
  • Try using another M.2 port.
• Faulty motherboard?
  • Try connecting another drive through M.2/SATA/USB.

[juliohm]

Isn’t the drive shown in the output? What is the sda that is shown?

[maycne.sonahoz]

@juliohm

What is the sda that is shown?

The liveUSB.

[andreas85]

Once i had to remove my RAM and reapply it to get it working.

These are gold-plated contacts, but that is no guarantee that you will never experience a contact problem.

[juliohm]

I removed and plugged the ssd m.2 back on the motherboard again and it worked. It was a connection problem apparently.