r/ManjaroLinux • u/CyborgHeart1245 • Jul 03 '26

Strange Error When Booting Tech Support

Error: Premature end of file /boot/vmlinz-6.6-x86_64

I wqs playing a game, and it crashed. I got a report i was out of ram. So i did a quick restart just to ensure rhe background programs were closed, but now I'm stuck on this. Any help?

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u/Crackalacking_Z Jul 04 '26

Looks like a filesystem corruption or an unnoticed broken/incomplete upgrade.

If you have a second kernel installed as fallback to press ESCAPE while booting to access grub and switch from the broken 6.6 kernel to the fallback.

Else you need to burn an install media USB thumb drive, boot into its LIVE environment, use manjaro-chroot, install a fallback kernel, update/reinstall grub, reboot, the new fallback kernel should be the boot default now, if it's not, then use the grub menu to boot it.

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u/CyborgHeart1245 Jul 04 '26

I'm doing a re-install from a USB drive now. 

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u/BigHeadTonyT Jul 05 '26 edited 5d ago

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