[SOLVED] Fresh Arch Linux not booting - Mainboard can't find the installation? | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 12:16 PM

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So one of my friends wants to try arch. He is new to linux so I guided him through all of the commands, but his mainboard doesn't seem to find the arch installation.

In the bios, with UEFI only mode, the arch disk doesn't even show up at all. (Please insert a bootable drive...)

I personally use different software like refind instead of grub so I got kind of confused.

Some information that might be relevant:
Live USB booted with EFI: yes
EFI partition type: EFI System (somewhere I heard its supposed to be EFI (FAT...))
EFI partition directory: /boot//mnt/boot (2nd: on the live usb)
grub install command: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --recheck --bootloader-id=GRUB --removable (I also tried only /boot without removable)

I ran all the necessary commands (that I could find) like grub-mkconfig.

I wasn't able to find something about this online, as I don't even have an error code like all the other posts.

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 12:31 PM

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What media are they trying to install to? Is it something like an SD card?

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 12:32 PM

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The boot drive? Its a samsung nvme ssd

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the live usb is just a normal 16gb usb drive

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 12:33 PM

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Also, was /boot properly mounted when they ran the grub install command

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 12:34 PM

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We used the commands from the install wiki which should mount the efi partition in /mnt/boot (from the usb dirs) so I assume, yes

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 12:35 PM

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Did they mount it after /?

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 12:35 PM

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oh, I'm not sure.

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Didn't know that could make a difference

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So, should we start again from the beginning or is it fine if we just format the efi partition and run the grub commands again (incl. mkinitcpio ...)?

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 12:39 PM

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You shouldn’t even need to reformat anything. Just unmount everything and remove anything in the root’s /boot, then remount in the right order, chroot, and install grub again.

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 12:39 PM

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Ok, thanks! We'll try that.

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 12:55 PM

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Oh, you may also need to recreate fstab. It probably wasn’t generated correctly if you mounted anything in the wrong order.

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 2:46 PM

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Ok we tried the whole installation again, starting from clearing all nvme partitions.

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it still doesn't show up in the bios menu

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and efibootmgr also shows the entry for arch

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 2:56 PM

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That’s odd. That’s also the extent of my knowledge on this topic, sorry.

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Unless you want to try Super Grub 2 or something I guess

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 2:59 PM

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Ok, I'll try systemd-boot

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 3:32 PM

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still no luck, formatted the efi parition uninstalled grub installed and configured, but nothing

silver igloo Jan 6, 2023, 4:14 PM

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Was an OS previously installed on this drive?

rigid palm Jan 6, 2023, 4:15 PM

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ok, fuck

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The bios had an extra option for boot manager which had the windows drive selected so none other boot manager was shown.

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I'll close this now.

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thank you for helping though

#[SOLVED] Fresh Arch Linux not booting - Mainboard can't find the installation?