# Stuck at black screen when booting after update

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105>\
**Category:** Newbie\
**Created:** [April 12, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105 "2026-04-12T09:51:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Playpen)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/1 "2026-04-12T09:51:08Z")

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After a recent update my laptop is stuck to a black screen.

I tried to follow this:

[https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-computer-doesn-t-boot-boots-to-a-black-screen-or-stops-at-a-message/6887](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-computer-doesn-t-boot-boots-to-a-black-screen-or-stops-at-a-message/6887 "https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/faq-computer-doesn-t-boot-boots-to-a-black-screen-or-stops-at-a-message/6887")

However when running this :

```auto
sudo reflector -a6 -f5 --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

```

I got simply failure for every mirror ( time out after 5 seconds), I ping [google.com](http://google.com) and get no error in term of package loss

I tried also following this:

[https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/howto-resolve-an-unbootable-endeavouros-system-black-screen-login-failed-cant-boot-etc/72267](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/howto-resolve-an-unbootable-endeavouros-system-black-screen-login-failed-cant-boot-etc/72267 "https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/howto-resolve-an-unbootable-endeavouros-system-black-screen-login-failed-cant-boot-etc/72267")

However still no luck even with chroot

I tried to look at different topic in the forum but running out of idea on what to do. when running yay -Syuu using TTS i got everything up to date

On a side note is it possible to access the files inside of the computer ( I should have an external disk with the main ones) and retrieve them in case I decide to flash a new EOS iso ?

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**Author:** ![Pati](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/pati/32/138644_2.png) [@Pati](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Pati)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/2 "2026-04-12T09:55:29Z")

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Hello @Playpen, welcome to the forum.  
At least booting a live-iso should let you save your data. It’s always a good idea to seve data before getting in trouble at troubleshooting.

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**Author:** ![Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Playpen)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/3 "2026-04-12T10:21:44Z")

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From this live-iso I suppose I would need to use chroot ?

Indeed for the backup I would use this experience as a way to do it more effectively

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**Author:** ![xircon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/xircon/32/9124_2.png) [@xircon](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/xircon)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/4 "2026-04-12T10:44:07Z")

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Should be able to open drive with dolphin and just copy files to external drive. Reading your posts it looks like you have no internet connection….

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**Author:** ![Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Playpen](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Playpen)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/5 "2026-04-12T11:22:00Z")

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I can ping google without any problem (all the package go through), I am trying with a higher value for --connection-timeout 60 --download-timeout 60. I hope it will resolve this issue

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**Author:** ![made-lief](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/made-lief/32/64412_2.png) [@made-lief](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/made-lief)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/stuck-at-black-screen-when-booting-after-update/79105/6 "2026-04-14T07:20:33Z")

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Hi @Playpen ,

Not sure if the black screen is from an incomplete upgrade or something else, but a full upgrade is a good first step either way.

Fix the mirrorlist first, then chroot and upgrade:

From live ISO

```auto
lsblk
sudo mount /dev/ /mnt
sudo mount /dev/ /mnt/boot/efi

```

# Fix mirrorlist

```auto
sudo nano /mnt/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

```

Add the next line:

> Server = [https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch](https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch)

Chroot and upgrade

```auto
sudo arch-chroot /mnt
mkinitcpio -P
pacman -Syuu
exit

```

# When done

```auto
sudo umount -R /mnt
reboot

```