ok, so you are using ZFS, that could be also the reason… you have alos xorg dumped cores…
try reinstalling:
pacman -S zfs-utils
Is your /boot also encrypted? Otherwise, including the key file into the unencrypted boot partitions defeats the encryption totally.
reinstallling the zfs kernel modules didn’t fix anything, still not getting to grub menu.
yes /boot is encrypted the one which is not is /boot/efi/ which is a different physical partition.
I don’t believe it has something to do with zfs. It fails starting X11 and occurred after an update
More likely is the Nvidia driver. Did you already clear this?
Clear what? How can I fix it?
Maybe because of the switch I made?
You never resolved the other thread. 
Yes I did I replaced linux515-nvidia with nvidia-dkms
reruning update didnt show any errors?
post output from:
inxi -G && mhwd -l -li
No the updates didn’t show any error only with pacman didn’t compile anything with pamac.
This is the result from the chroot:
[manjaro /]# inxi -G
12Graphics:
12Device-1 NVIDIA GP104BM [GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile] 12driver nouveau 12v kernel
12Display 12server X.Org 12v 21.1.4 12driver 12X 12loaded nvidia 12gpu nouveau 12resolution 1920x1080~120Hz
12API OpenGL 12v 4.3 Mesa 22.2.1 12renderer NV134
[manjaro /]# mhwd -l -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-nvidia 2021.12.18 false PCI
Warning: No installed USB configs!
> 0000:01:00.0 (0300:11ed:4eb2) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-470xx 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2021.11.26 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
is this info from chroot?
yes once chrooted
it detects:
driver nouveau
instead of nvidia…
so from chroot uninstall this:
mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
mhwd -r pci video-linux
then post output from:
pacman -Qs nvidia
dont reboot
this is because the live usb is running on open source drivers so is running the kernel from the live usb not the drive one.
should I uninstall the nvidia drivers?
i see, so you booted the usb with open source drivers…
yes uninstall both the video linux, which you dont need anyway since you have only nvidia gpu, and uninstall also nvidia, and then post the pacman output
if I disable the nvidia gpu from the bios I can boot with intel integrated graphics so maybe not a good idea to remove them.
but from the inxi and mhwd command, there is no intel gpu detected … so the intel is disabled in bios than? if so disable the nvidia, and try booting with intel only, so that we can rule out nvidia…
yes I must choose between integrated gpu or discrete gpu.
This is however what happens if I try to remove nvidia drivers:
[manjaro /]# mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
> Removing video-nvidia...
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/local/pci/video-nvidia/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
Processing classid: 0302
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils' required by cuda
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=520.56.06' required by nvidia-dkms
:: removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils' required by python-gpustat
Error: pacman failed!
Error: script failed!
ok, since you going to boot with intel only, you dont need to uninstall the drivers yet, until we check if its related to nvidia…
so just exit chroot, and switch to intel only and boot and see if it worked
tried with intel GPU but no luck at all. The only difference is that I see like a barcode of rainbows flash once and then the same pc logo. Maybe it’s still trying to load the nvidia drivers?