Cannot access my main system, grub is broken after I updated

[HIT]

I have had optimus manager installed for the better part of the last year. Sure ill try uninstalling it and ill tell you how that goes, thanks a lot!

[HIT]

On another note, could you walk me through uninstalling it properly. I don’t want to mess things up even more, thank you again.

[petsam]

@HIT

could you walk me through uninstalling it properly

Whatever I can tell you, you will have to read it.
Maybe it is safer to read upstream instructions directly?

If you manage to break it more, we will have much fun troubleshooting it !

[HIT]

Alright I’m back, I uninstalled optimus manager and rebooted and still the exact same issue.
Any logs and such I could provide for further investigation I’m more than happy to.

[petsam]

@HIT

I uninstalled optimus manager and rebooted and still the exact same issue.

@petsam

and then install nvidia drivers, using official EnOS utilities (check Discovery tutorial pages).

@joekamprad

if it is kde plasma install:
yay -S sddm eos-plasma-sddm-config xf86-video-intel
if something else:
yay -S sddm eos-sddm-theme xf86-video-intel

And before that make sure system is fully up to date:
sudo pacman -Syu

If you are still having problems, send these logs:

inxi -SMGaz

pacman -Qs intel\|radeon\|amd\|nouveau\|nvidia

[ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "tty" ] || xrandr

for Xconf in $(ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/*.conf | grep -v keyboard); do echo -e "\n $Xconf \n" ; cat $Xconf ; done

for Xconf in /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf; do echo -e "\n $Xconf \n"; cat $Xconf ; done

for Xconf in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf; do echo -e "\n $Xconf \n"; cat $Xconf ; done

journalctl -b -p3 --no-pager --no-hostname

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -E "(EE)|(WW)|failed|Time"

If after reboot you get a black screen again, from TTY try to start display manager. If it fails, try another one (lightdm, gdm, etc.)

sudo systemctl start display-manager
sudo systemctl start lightdm

If they all fail, send the logs:

systemctl status display-manager
systemctl status lightdm
journalctl -b -u sddm  # or lightdm, etc.

[HIT]

Okay I’m back, so I pondered the situation and decided that it would already be easier to just install endeavor again, considering I have my home on a different partition from everything else. Now my question is, after the install how do I make the partition I previously used as home the default home partition on the new install?

[joekamprad]

you can also rename your current users home folder to something like username_old and set the partition to ber used for /home on manual partition and after first boot you can copy your needed files and configs back into new created users home…