Unable to boot/black screen after botched update

The tutorial you mentioned lists some good troubleshooting steps, however in this case I think this was your issue

It’s a risk everytime someone performs a hard shutdown or reset, but even more so while updating.

A safer method is to use REISUB/REISUO:

It does need some configuring before you can use it, but it’s well worth the effort.


Try this tutorial instead. :eyes:

As the title suggests, it’s written for just this type of situation.

If yours is a new installation and you opted to use a BTRFS (default filesystem on new ISO’s since Manjaro 25.0) then make sure to use the correct method to enter a chroot environment (examples are given in the tutorial).

Important: Please note that the manjaro-chroot -a command will not work properly with a BTRFS filesystem.

I hope this helps.

Regards.


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