Is there some easy command line that will fix this? I don't know grub very well kitty-cri

For context I was reinstalling vlc, I guess I should have updated first

  • captcha [any]
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    1 year ago

    However you did it the first time you successfully installed Manjaro should still work. If you dont remember beforehand then it depends on what computers you have available. But in any case I suggest following the Manjaro wiki I linked.

    UNetBootin is overkill. Its for burning multiple live-isos to one drive which is really neat and useful but not what you need and overly complicated.

    If you have access to a linux terminal on another computer I do recommend it but only because its easier for us to talk about it as we are all text here. If something goes wrong you can just paste the output. Make sure you get your drive letter right though. It should error if you try writing to a mounted drive but you really dont want two borked systems.

    • maccruiskeen [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      are there instructions for mounting partitions? i dont think ive ever used chmod and i dont want to screw something up

      • captcha [any]
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        1 year ago

        Mount a Filesystem. But you'll have to investigate which drive or partition has your root partition. Mount a disk to /mnt, check if its the root partition. Once you find the root partition, you'll want to read its /etc/fstab - which will be /mnt/etc/fstab when mounted - to check for other partitions you may need to mount. You absolutely need to mount any separate boot if they exist.

        You should probably also start reading the Arch Installation Guide because you're literally repeating steps from this guide to repair your system. Specifically, you are on step 1.11, then you'll want to do 3.2, 3.6, and 3.8. 3.8 blows up into the Boot Loader guide, which leads to the guide for GRUB. I think you only need to do GRUB 1.1 to fix your system. But your should read everything in between. Some instructions won't make sense if you dont.

    • mop [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      i got the usb to work using the terminal, i just have to do the other stuff now