My arch freezes suddenly in between with caps lock key blinking, anyone knows what might be causing?

but essentially it’s warning me of optional dependencies and then asking me if i’m willing to remove them

You need to mash the key for UEFI Setup before Windows boots.

I doubt it. Press ESC, F2, F12, DEL or whatever the key is on your motherboard to get into uefi settings.

If the packages you don’t want removed were installed asdeps and they are deps of something else, Rnsu will not remove them.

It’s only showing my SSD name (PNY 240 GB SATA SSD), there is no way to switch between windows and systemd-boot bootloaders

What makes you think this is UEFI?

That looks a lot like legacy bios, and not uefi

what’s the more general solution? what kind of option will not remove packages installed in a standalone way which are needed by other packages as optional (therefore not installed by default) dependencies?

hmm It happened 4-5 times, I’ll try if it happens again

i guess i could red the entirety of the pacman manual, because there’s nothing of the sort on the wiki, but i guess asking directly
1) is faster and
2) will lead me to the proper way without the risk of doing things wrong (as in: it works but you shouldn’t)

Oh okay, that’s right. I’ve had “Legacy first, UEFI second” selected. However, now I’ve changed it to “UEFI only” and it doesn’t boot at all…

If I force reboot, would journalctl -b give me the incident during previous boot?

Reinstall the OS

That’s probably because you don’t have an uefi bootloader installed

I’d like to keep my data though

Reinstall the OS and restore backups

Isn’t there any way to just reinstall the bootloader instead of reinstalling the whole OS?

You need to format the drive as GPT first, it’s going to be MBR schemed.

friendly reminder that you can have MBR under uefi, i’ve been dumb enough to do it without even knowing

Not if you want Windows you can’t.

oh well, that sucks

Not to mention it’s a pretty atrocious setup even if it worked

yeah mbr sucks and mbr under uefi sucks even more

it’s truly, truly cursed

you can convert from mbr to gpt and vice versa:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPT_fdisk#Convert_between_MBR_and_GPT

something like pacman -Qgt <group> ?

Can I just reinstall Linux or do I have to reinstall Windows too?

you don’t need to reinstall

do this

(make a backup of all available data first)

Alright, backing up right now

you’ll have to reinstall your bootloader though after converting, but not the whole os

Alright, thanks, I’ll try it

then you need to reboot it by pressing power/reset button or after some time it becomes workable (automatically)? thank you.

yes it does work