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mga 9 up to date, doesn't boot, press escape to go to verbose mode, just a black screen, pressing alt+sys req R and E fixes it. any thoughts?

some thoughts!
You haven't given much info to go on.

Did Mageia9 boot ok until the update?

Do you have nvidia hardware?

can you boot to a previous kernel?

Have you made some hardware changes since the last "normal" boot?

In a terminal type

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systemd-analyze blame

This might give you a hint of what is hanging up.

It's usually more useful to get the graphical plot as otherwise you don't see services that start concurrently and what is waiting for what. As root

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systemd-analyze plot > boot_mga.svg

and later attach boot_mga.svg here.