Hi. I installed mabox Linux and everything is fine but when I install another Linux distro mabox just now when it boots is stuck on logo on manufacturer. I have tried reinstalling and updating grub to no avail. Any ideas? Ty
Hello, May I ask a few questions to understand the problem better.
- Have you updated Mabox after first setup?
- Did you install any drivers via “Manjaro Settings”
- What is other OS exactly?
- On what partition you installed Mabox’s and other OS’s /boot/efi?
- Did you format boot/efi partition during installation of second OS?
- Can you load bios on your machine and what are the options?
Hi ty.
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I didn’t update the system. Fresh install
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I didn’t install any drivers (manjaro)
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2nd round of installing different OS’s but it broke after I installed archcraft and I believe its doing this after installing an arch based system. I have peppermint also installed.
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mabox is on sda3 while the others are on 2 and 4. The efi is on sdc1
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no never reformatted efi. Also have windows on SDB all by itself.
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BIOS loads as usual.
Ty
Welcome @Th3Bird you are right about your 3rd point… Archcraft or the last distro you installed might have overwritten ( and deleted) your efiboot folders the same does win10/11 does if you reinstall them in efiboot partition.
In the case of mabox ( Manjaro stable based) you could try doing chroot with the same Mabox live usb to restore partitions and boot but as you have a distro salad kindda I am not sure if this could work out fine a 100% to have all your distros booting in the updated grub. Hope this can help somehow.
hi ty. Yea, what happens is that it is stuck on the post boot logo. I understand your responce and Im going to take a screen shot of when I boot directly from boot menu, not grub. I get some LightDM errors. Ill send in a few. ty
Did you try to restart d-bus service from a terminal or tty with command : systemctl start dbus.service
I couldn’t really get to a prompt. I tried init=/bin/bash and something else. What I did do is reformat that partition and reinstalled so I didn’t get any lesson on that one. Ty though I would go in and restart its .service right?
- Seems like this problem is not related to Mabox at all.
- You installed another distribution, and GRUB bootloader comes from this newly installed distribution.
- Seems like this new distribution failed to detect Mabox as instelled previously and did not add it to GRUB correctly - this is the reason why Mabox not boot correctly anymore.
Proposed solution:
Search Internet for something like:
Dualboot GRUB (name of your newly installed distribution)
or
Ask you newly installed distribution community about dualboot, and how to configure it properly.
Maybe also worth to look at:
GRUB at Archwiki
OK great. Ty and I’ll look the info up. Ty