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Brokemyinstall

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Registered: 2021-10-08

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[SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

Hi, sorry if it's not the right place to ask.
The day before yesterday, I ran pacman -Syu, and when I tried to reboot my system I was met with the bios. I've tried to downgrade on a live usb (I had to use the --overwrite flag for qt5-base, there was the error file exists in filesystem) which did not solve the problem so I updated the system today and it still does the same. I've searched for the problem online and found nothing. Are there any interesting logs to check? I use systemd-boot.

Last edited by Brokemyinstall (2021-10-09 07:44:36)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

There's nothing usable here, what doesn't boot? Do you not even get to systemd-boot or does an entry selected in systemd-boot not boot? If you don't even get to systemd-boot you need to recheck your EFI NVRAM entries with efibootmgr or generally the bootable entries menu of your firmware? Which firmware is this? Which mainboard vendor?

Brokemyinstall

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

I don't even get to systemd-boot. The boot entries are just fine, I've checked that already. I'm on an asus n751jx, firmware version 2.15.1236.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

Check the available entries with efibootmgr/post the output. How does the free space on your /boot respectively your ESP look like, did you run out of space on a kernel update? To post outputs from a terminal/a live disk see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Brokemyinstall

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

The output form efibootmgr is http://ix.io/3BdS
My boot partition has 704MB free (32% full). I don't have an efi partition, all is on the boot partition.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

Your /boot is your efi partition and there's no entry for systemd-boot, rerun the relevant bootctl command to reinstall systemd-boot from the chroot.

Brokemyinstall

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

That wasn't the problem but put me on the right track.
Linux was somehow missing, after reinstalling it everything worked fine. Thanks for the help.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] System not booting after pacman -Syu

Make sure your /boot partition is actually mounted when you update your system otherwise you'll just repeat this the next time