Yes, what should you do if manjaro doesn’t start after an update or the startup ends in a black screen?
Taking a backup of the system is in itself very important, I do this frequently. But how do you access this backup when you are stuck on a black screen and can’t get into the system?
As some of you know! I have had a few such cases last year and one already this year after a new manjaro update. I have read that these crashes after new updates have something to do with the nvidia driver! Well, that’s what I have read somewhere in here, but don’t know much about this myself.
However, I also installed manjaro kde plasma on my new Dell laptop, but instead I will install the xfce version of manjaro on it to save as much resources as possible, as I will use it for music live performance on youtube with obs and the usb-yamaha mixer.
Since Microsoft is ending support for Win10 on October 15th this year, I am becoming more dependent on Linux than ever before, as all three of my computers are not compatible with Win11.
Therefore, I have begun my preventive research and learning about recovering from possible problems with Manjaro! Yes, what do you do if the accident is there?
This is also important for further developing my Norwegian howto pages on linux-helt-enkelt.se
Maybe just the display manager doesn’t start/work?
Try switching to a TTY.
If you can’t get to a TTY when you boot your system, you need to boot using a live system like the one you used to install the system in the first place.
Then you can chroot into your defunct system and repair it.
A USB drive prepared with Ventoy and a Manjaro ISO on it is one way to do that.
I don’t see any easy ways to recover a manjaro system, not something I understand at all!
Isn’t there any software that can make an exact copy of the entire system and create a new iso that can later be installed as a new installation, but which exactly restores everything to how it was before, as you can for example with the ubuntu distros? make a own linux etc…