I m running Manjaro linux and whenever I turn on my laptop it boots up til a certain point, than blackscreens with a blinking cursor.?

Question

Yes, I can use and log-in to the tty2 console, but it s just the terminal, no desktop or anything. If you couldn t already tell, I m completely new to this.

Answer 1

this issue could be many things and affects many versions of linux. its seems to be an issue with big disks and using gpt rather than mbr. sww link, at the end.

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with Manjaro Linux I'm familiar with Linux Mint which is a very pretty form of Ubuntu I know this much since it only takes 10 minutes to totally reinstall Linux if it doesn't work reinstall it from the USB if it still doesn't work install Linux Mint

Answer 3

Things it would be helpful to know (in order to solve this issue):



[1] Is this your first GNU/Linux-based operating system installation?



[2] Who installed it onto your computer?



[3] Have you read the "User Guide"?

. . . . The "User Guide" is available here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/Manjaro-1.7.2-User-Guide.pdf

. . . . Clicking the preceding link should open a download dialog box where you can choose whither to download the guide.

. . . . Pages 23 through 27 of the "User Guide" explain burning the ISO to disc.

. . . . Pages 31 through 32 give a brief explanation of BIOS vs. UEFI



[4] Has Manjaro ever worked in graphical mode on your laptop?



[5] Which version of Manjaro is giving you problems?

. . . . XFCE?

. . . . KDE?

. . . . GNOME?

. . . . Architect?

❋ ❋ ❋ ❋ If you're using Architect, you will need to read and follow the instructions here:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/installation-with-manjaro-architect-iso/20429



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😱 I must go to work now. If this question isn't resolved by morning (2108-03-26 07:00-ish US Eastern Time), and if you've provided more information, I'll come back to this question and try to help you out, if you so desire.



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I returned to this question at 06:44 US Eastern Time to find no new information from the OP.



So now I'd like to make some suggestions:



(1) As root, type: init 5

(2) Press: Enter

(3) Wait and see what happens

(4) If nothing happened, type: startx

(5) Press: Enter

(6) Wait and see what happens

(7) If nothing happened, Try reinstalling from scratch. Let Manjaro's installation wizard decide how to best partition your computer's entire HDD (or SSD, if that aplies) in accordance with the default configuration offered by Manjaro. [⇦ ⇦ If you cannot let Manjaro repartition your computer's HDD or SSD in accordance with "default" settings, because of dual-booting or whatever other scenario you have, then be sure to read up on partitioning for Linux.]



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For most home users, on old-style BIOS computers, three partitions are good:



[1] /

[2] /home

[3] swap



For most home users, on new-style UEFI computers, four partitions are good:



[1] ESP

[2] /

[3] /home

[4] swap



Here's the output of lsblk on my machine's main SSD, just so you can see.:



sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk

├─sda1 8:1 0 256M 0 part

├─sda2 8:2 0 16G 0 part [SWAP]

├─sda3 8:3 0 25G 0 part /

└─sda4 8:4 0 40G 0 part /home



sda1 is my ESP drive. Some folks will say that fewer than 256 MBs is plenty. Some folks say that more than 256 MBs is recommended. I say: dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirepus (which is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious backwards ... not in reverse, but backwards; there's a difference, apparently).



[ESP is EFI System Partition]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition

Answer 4

There are so many things it could be! As you can get into a console remotely could you install X11vnc (or another VNC that looks at the physical screen), so you can see what your CPU thinks it's sending to the desktop. This way you can change the screen resolution (properly) and see if you can get the screen back.



*Answering this from a Rock64 SBC running Armbian!