Bootloader acting up

[civic swallow]

OK so, i installed arch to a virtual machine but when i try too boot to it it dosent boot it just goes to the live media and dont tell me its wrong boot order i already checked that

[fast grotto]

What other details do you think might be useful?

[civic swallow]

i dunno

[fast grotto]

Say what the bootloader is, what the vm software is, what you have tried to fix it

[civic swallow]

i used virtualbox as the host

and the bootloader i tried to install i systemd-boot since grub is broken at the moment

[fast grotto]

Grub isn’t broken at the moment

[civic swallow]

it isnt?

ima open up arch wiki and try to install it then

[fast grotto]

are you booting up using uefi or bios mode in the vm?

[civic swallow]

bios

[fast grotto]

make sure you don't do the UEFI installation of grub then

.aw grub

[drowsy gate]

Arch Wiki: Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub

[civic swallow]

💀 i dont have space for bios boot partition on the virtual hard disk

[fast grotto]

Even if you delete what’s there already?

[civic swallow]

i enabled EFI from virtualbox

[fast grotto]

Why?

[civic swallow]

cuz i dont have space for the bios boot partition

[fast grotto]

Do you have anything important on the VM?

[civic swallow]

nah

just installed arch today

[fast grotto]

I think you should reinstall it in uefi mode completely

Use cfdisk or fdisk or archinstall to set aside half a gig for the bootloader, probably need a bit less than that

I’ve never used the vm software you’re using, I’ve only used KVM

[civic swallow]

good news

i got grub working

it goes into a shell tho