[manjaro-dev] [Manjaro Linux Support] Manjaro wont boot above version 17.0

[Philip Müller]

Am 30.05.2017 um 00:13 schrieb Keith:
> From: Keith <keith.jones14 at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Manjaro wont boot above version 17.0
> 
> Message Body:
> Hi there i really need some help and cant seem to find the answer anywhere live iso's of Manjaro up to version 17.0 (Flavors do not matter i have tried loads and the same happens on all of them) would boot but newer version wont boot the following happens
> 
>  if i boot a live iso up to version 17.0 with the free driver it fails to boot
>  if i boot a live iso up to version 17.0 with the non free driver it boots correctly
> 
> if i boot a live iso above version 17.0 it will not boot regardless of which driver i select the only recent version that i got to boot was the Manjaro Cinnamon 17.02 preview this booted using the free driver if i then did a install everything seemed ok but when i rebooted after the install was done it would not boot
> 
>  if i boot a live iso up to version 17.0 with the non free driver then do a install everything work correctly but if i then update all the packages via the system updater when i reboot the system it fails to boot
> 
> my system has a pair of Nvidia GTX 980 gpu's i all so noticed that Antergos fails to boot as well as Manjaro if i install the nvidia drivers so the issue maybe be at a Arch linux level 
> 
> The live iso's boot failure is very strange i boot my system and select the usb drive that the iso is written to then i set the timezone and keyboard layout so English London and British Keyboard as im in the UK then i select the the non free driver and boot from the usb stick it then start to boot and i see the systemd 232 startup script load the screen then goes black with a white cursor in the top left it looks like its loading but it never does if i then press crtl+alt+delete the lightdm login screen loads and the user name is show as Manjaro you can then put the password in and wait to see if it loads but it does not so you press crtl+alt+delete again and select reboot from the menu on the lightdm login screen the pc then reboots
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Well, we only changed the kernel in minor-point-release level and
switched from syslinux to grub on or ISOs. If you manage to boot it up,
please send me the output of the following:

mhwd > mhwd-output.txt
hwinfo > hwinfo-output.txt

kind regards,

Philip