Unable to chroot into system after failed update

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@Gyle

A botched update left my system unbootable. A little bit of forum browsing told me to do a live-boot and then using chroot and resume the update. Sadly, I run into a dead end pretty early on because manjaro-chroot -a was met with chroot: failed to run command /bin/bash’: Exec format error` -message.

Please read the HowTo at the link below…

• [HowTo] Recovering from an interrupted update/upgrade

@Gyle

I apologize if I’m leaving out crucial informations, I’m pretty new to this.

Then perhaps these following links will help.

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