MCE lead to my system breaking after an upgrade

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When specefically do I have to do the Ctrl alt F2, at the grub screen??

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You can try it where it stops loading or before.

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Before what stops loading

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I’m not sure what’s happening? Does it just stop when it boots?

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Ok

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I’m waiting for an answer? Are you able to boot it and switch to a TTY screen?

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I’ve got a class rn, will be back in 30 mins and will let u know about the TTY stuff

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No problem!

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Thx man, really appreciate the help

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i am unable to get into the TTY

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Well do you know how to chroot?

Edit: Do you know how to chroot into the installed system?

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um, no

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What is installed on the system? Windows dual boot? Other?

Edit: I see multiple drives.

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its a pure endeavourOS install, no multiboot

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Okay that makes it easier. What you need to do is boot on the live iso and chroot into the installed system. Then you can run a command to uninstall the nvidia drivers and it will revert to the nouveau open source drivers.

Boot on the live ISO first. We need to know what the device name & partitions are that EndeavourOS is installed on. You can get that info either by posting an image of the drive using gparted to show it. Or use a command in the terminal.

sudo fdisk -l
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will do, i have a class rn, will be back in another 30 mins and will send the response here

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image

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Okay so to chroot you have to boot on the live ISO. Then run these commands in order. The first command is to become super user or root user. Then you have to mount the root partition of the installed system. Then you have to mount the efi partition. Then arch-chroot.

sudo su

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi

arch-chroot /mnt

Then you can run this command to uninstall the nvidia drivers and it will revert to nouveau open source drivers. Then well see if it boots and works first. Then maybe we can reinstall the nvidia drivers if you want or need. The problem is the 710 drivers are not supported anymore by nvidia. There is the 470 drivers in the AUR now that have been set up for this because the current drivers are 495xx series and are not supported by your card.

Run this command and after it finishes you could reboot and see.

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -n

You may not need sudo on this command because you are root user? :thinking:

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after that i have to run

sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -n

right?

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yes