<div>Hey there,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I recently tried to install Manjaro KDE to a mates laptop. We tried Manjaro xfce and KDE. Both of them would install, however after the installation it appears that grub doesn't get the right UUID. This already is known as a bug on Arch with mkinitcpio.conf. He is using an HP Pavilion i3 with a VMD Drive<br></div><div><a rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank" href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68704">https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68704</a><br></div><div>User winnie writes:<br></div><div class="cooked"><p><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>Boy did this bite me HARD right in the buttocks!</i></span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i><br></i></span></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>I nearly pulled out all of my hair installing Manjaro for a friend
that has an Intel VMD drive, and after much stressing out and banging my
head on the wall, did I discover that the vmd module is needed!</i></span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i><br></i></span></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>Nowhere during the Calamares setup did anything warn me about the drive selected for installation.</i></span><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i><br></i></span></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>I absolutely believe the vmd module should be added if such a drive is detected.<br></i></span></p><hr><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>In fact, a few extra defaults are dearly needed if such a drive is detected:<br></i></span>- <b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>vmd</i></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i> added to MODULES in </i></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">/etc/mkinicpio.conf</span></i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i><br></i></span>- <b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>nvme_load=YES</i></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i> added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in </i></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">/etc/default/grub</span></i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i><br>- Under /etc/mkinitcpio.conf HOOKS, </i></span><b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>block</i></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i> must come </i></span><i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px">before</span></i><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i> </i></span><b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>autodetect</i></span></b><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>. This is especially important for those using encryption.<br></i></span><hr><p></p><p><span class="size" style="font-size: 10px"><i>After correcting the above three items, their system boots flawlessly
now. (Prior to that, they could not boot no matter what we tried.)</i></span><br></p><div>He said this in the following thread:<br></div><div><a href="https://forum.manjaro.org/t/installer-needs-to-add-vmd-module-to-mkinitcpio-testers-needed/70654/3">https://forum.manjaro.org/t/installer-needs-to-add-vmd-module-to-mkinitcpio-testers-needed/70654/3</a><br></div><div>I feel like adding the option to add vmd to the installer by default would really improve the usability and make a lot of people less frustrated, and make a lot of first timers move to Manjaro.<br></div><div>I hope I could help you guys in some way, more information is in the thread above.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great week and thanks for your work!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Tim<br></div></div><div><br></div>