12-19-2021, 04:32 AM
Apparently my wife's PBP (which was received early when Manjaro was first the default OS) was "soft bricked" by a recent Manjaro update. I solved it yesterday by booting a new copy of Manjaro from an SD card. I dd'd the SD card's U-Boot to the eMMC. I edited extlinux.conf so that Manjaro would boot from the correct partition. Then I mounted and chrooted to the eMMC, and did a pacman update. For some reason I had to repeat what I did with the U-Boot. But now it boots and updates without issue.
For all my vitriol against linux and especially Arch, it was relatively painless. Especially better than just prior taking my wife's car to the car wash and having the window fall inside the door when trying to pay for the car wash. Of course, after waiting in a long queue to get to the payment console, only to have to convince everyone behind me to let me back out.
For all my vitriol against linux and especially Arch, it was relatively painless. Especially better than just prior taking my wife's car to the car wash and having the window fall inside the door when trying to pay for the car wash. Of course, after waiting in a long queue to get to the payment console, only to have to convince everyone behind me to let me back out.
:wq
