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Q Sticking the boot back in

I tried to install Manjaro (after reading your article on it) on an old Acer laptop that could no longer update Windows 10 as it’s only a 32GB SSD. I thought I was doing well and was happy using it, but had issues with it not shutting down and only booting up when AC power was plugged in. I got around the boot issue by disabling TLP, but wanted a proper fix. I changed a TLP setting to ignore AC, and prioritise battery and now it won’t boot at all.

I’ve read articles that suggest using an installation media and mounting the old boot partition, but then what? Should I mount a different partition that contains the rest of the filesystem to edit the config file? It would be great if I can recover this and any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Ismail

It’s very easy to get in a mess when fiddling with BIOS settings, so your best bet is to go back to a good base. You should find a reset option in the BIOS menus: sometimes it’s “Load optimised settings” or similar. Once you’ve done this, turn off any secure boot feature to allow it to use the bootloader installed by Manjaro.