I have a dual boot setup with windows and cachyOS. Everything was fine till yesterday but today morning my cachyOS stopped loading past the plymouth splash screen after the bootloader options. However, windows works fine. I tried a lot of things like setting the nosplash option and even tried using the chroot mount my disk and update from the live boot environment. I even tried loading into the LTS kernel but that didnt work either. Then I backed up my files in an external ssd through the live environment and reinstalled cachyOS thinking it would work but it didnt work either. I even tried installing fedora instead of cachy and same issue happened, it was stuck on the fedora loading splash. Again, windows is working fine. Also, all my fast boot and secure boot stuff is disabled so no issue there. I even went to the bios and reset to default and then turned off fast and secure boot but didnt work.
I did update my cachyOS through the cachy-update yesterday before I closed my laptop. Maybe there was some issue somewhere there but I am stuck right now.
Have you tried this?
Thanks for the reply. I just tried it and it did not work.
While the plymouth screen is visible, you can press [ESC] to close it and see the screen output / status of booting … maybe this helps to sort out where it stops …
Thank you for the reply. I just tried it and I am getting:
ACPI bios error (bug): could not resolve symbol [\_TZ.ETMD], AE_NOT_FOUND (20250404/psargs-332)
Google this, and you will find what you’re looking for.
I did search it up. It seems to be related to the thermal management stuff and it is a non critical error message and can be ignored for the most part. However, I did find some fixes incase it was causing booting issues. I tried them and it still did not work. I am starting to think my issue is towards the BIOS side rather than the OS side.
Yes, I thought of that as well. You could check your “BIOS”:
inxi -M
and see if an upgrade is available (in case you haven’t already done so yourself).