Hi there, My desktop froze during a system update. I’m not sure it was because of the update since I was doing (too) many different demanding things concurrently. Anyway, after about 10 minutes of total freeze, I hit the power button to force a hard reboot. On reboot, no GRUB/boot menu was availabl…

I tried to go further with the diagnosis. First, I noticed I wasn’t properly mounting the volumes. It’s now done as I think it should be: $ sudo umount /mnt/@/efi $ sudo umount /mnt $ sudo mount -o subvol=@ /dev/mapper/myp2 /mnt $ sudo mount -o subvol=@home /dev/mapper/myp2 /mnt/home $ sudo mount …

[image] b0b: Unfortunately, I don’t really know what to do next from here. you need to update the system. try to ping something like google to make sure you have a connection and if you do you need to update the system.

Thank you very much for your insight! Properly finishing the update was something I did previously. I ran pacman -Suuy though. A couple of unrelated packages were updated, then: :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/6) Creating temporary files... (2/6) Reloading system manager configuration... …

you need to deal with one issue at a time right now its more important to get the system back up and booting. [image] b0b: Properly finishing the update was something I did previously When did you finish the update?

[image] thefrog: When did you finish the update? After mounting the partition from the live USB and chrooting into it. And just right now as well, as you suggested it.

[image] thefrog: REISUB [Screenshot_20260810_030905] Can enable through the welcome app these days too.

Wonderful, my system is now booting normally. Thank you very much for your help! Thank you also for the REISUB tips, it’s a very neat addition indeed. I just enabled it and hopefully I’ll remember to use it next time. By comparing to another EOS system, I figured out that both 50-dracut.install an…

No boot menu after freeze and hard reboot

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware

thefrog August 9, 2026, 4:54pm 7

sounds like you need to reinstall your bootloader I do believe its bootctl install for systemd-boot (make sure you mount the efi drive before doing so) also you should always try to REISUB before physically shutting down.