The title is rather self-explanatory. I updated my system, and now systemd-boot isn’t even drawing to the screen. It doesn’t show the menu or anything, and if you launch it through Ventoy for instance, it just doesn’t even blank the screen, the machine hangs. inxi -Fxza I did what anyone who’s fac…

Well it seems downgrading systemd to 257.9-1 fixed it for me, as I can now boot like normal. I’ve added systemd and friends to ignorepkg for now. How is systemd breaking something that early in the boot process? Anyways, I found the solution, thanks for everything.

Systemd-boot is stuck on a black screen after update

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware

thefrog September 19, 2025, 6:49pm 2

do you by chance have apparmour installed?