#Can't boot into Omarchy

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ripe thistle
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I have an old laptop with a legacy BIOS system with MBR, I booted from USB and installed Omarchy, the installation was successful and after re-starting it goes into a blank screen, the Limine bootloader is not showing up, so I did the following to try to fix the issues:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda2 cryptroot

mount -o subvol=@ /dev/mapper/cryptroot /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

arch-chroot /mnt

I see vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux in the /boot/ path and also the /boot/limine folder is there, limine-bios.sys and limine.conf files are also there in /boot/ and /boot/limine folder.

I did limine bios-install /dev/sda
Then did:
limine-mkinitcpio
limine-update

After that I exited arch-chroot and umount the /mnt,

cryptsetup luksClose cryptroot

And reboot it, but the issue is still there, I cannot boot into Omarchy

trim comet
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no option in bios for uefi?
omarchy is designed with UEFI in mind. limine does have an mbr bootloader you could install with limine bios-install but you would be doing the configuration manually

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best option would be to enable uefi if the bios allows. or maybe use a chainloader to load efi after booting through mbr.

ripe thistle
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It's a really old laptop without UEFI, the BIOS does not have any option for UEFI nor Legacy, it used to have Windows 7 Home Edition by default, to be able to boot from usb has to configure it to be MBR

ripe thistle
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I was able to boot into Omarchy before installing GRUB but after going into Omarchy I updated it and once again I wasn't able to go into GRUB because vmlinuz-linux and initramfs-linux were missing, now I understand that was because I was using limine and grub at the same time but, what are the recommendations for my issue and situation?

olive dust