Trying to update, changing kernel, now it cannot boot

Thats not how mhwd works …

Or pacman.


If you wanted to see your installed packages then you could use

pacman -Qs nvidia

And if you wanted to remove a package, along with save files and unneeded dependencies, then

sudo pacman -Rns PACKAGE

…but …

We handle drivers using mhwd, so you probably dont want to mess with the packages themselves unless you know what you are doing or already broke something …

In mhwd we use the bus identifier … ex:

sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia

To see mhwd info you can use something like

mhwd -l -d 

Which will show both installed and available profiles.

PS - for a review of mhwd-kernel see this recent thread:
Update kernel and was wondering if this is good news or not - #8 by cscs