LEAD ME DOWN ANOTHER RABBIT HOLE WITH OBTUSE NON-EXPLANATIONS, I DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
oh you just gotta append some initrd= options to the boot loader or whatever, tehee :troll:
WELL HOW THE FUCK DO I DO THAT?? I WILL FIND YOU
Been running manjaro for some time, and I got a new ssd so I figured I’d give it a shot. Was hoping AUR might work better there, it has been kinda glitchy for me.
I’ve had to rewrite this post a few times bc the site is extremely good so please don’t take any tone as an implied slight against you.
Aur has always been weird. Manjaro is slightly different but even on arch the aurs got quirks.
This is gonna sound like old man advice, but have you considered Debian? It’s got decades of good documentation that’s written for a lower threshold of understanding and tends to be much more stable and usable for me.
Plus no one’s gonna a think you’re a dumbass for using literally the oldest linux distribution around.
Arch docs tend to be like your op: “add the appropriate initrd to your boot loader”. Assuming you know what boot loader you’re using, where it’s config file is, how to edit it, what syntax it expects for an initrd definition, what an initrd is and how to figure out which one you want to pick, how to install the bootloader once you’ve edited the configuration and most importantly: how to troubleshoot grub not booting.
When you’re over a critical number of those assumptions, you’re not learning anymore, you’re just suffering.
Thanks for the tip. I figured I’d just do another Manjaro install since that’s what I’m familiar with, but now for some reason even after I formatted the drive and installed a different OS on it, when choosing it as boot drive it’s still titled Arch Linux and fails to boot.
Sorry about all the whining, this just hasn’t been my day and I need to vent a bit
installing arch put grub on either the mbr or esp of your disk. its the mbr if youre using mbr partition scheme and esp if youre using the newer guid scheme.
i bet when you reinstalled something else you didn’t delete your partitions and re-initialize the disk or however they refer to it now.
you ought to be able to fix that by deleting your partition table and reinstalling using the installation media for what youre trying to install.
e: in the case this doesn’t work youre using efi microcode on your motherboard and i can walk you out of the woods at the end of my shift after midnight.
The drive name in boot menu is determined by what you use in grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB the GRUB at the end gives it the name and the esp is the directory with boot files, typically /boot. If you like Manjaro, I would probably try to stick with Arch if you want to know your system, it is pretty good distro and AUR is much better there.
