please help

[hidden orchid]

I rebooted and it shows this

[frosty coral]

What happens if you try to continue?

[hidden orchid]

It goes back to grub

[frosty coral]

Can you try regenerating the initramfs?

[vale merlin]

grub should have done that when installing

[hidden orchid]

How?

[vale merlin]

question is what did u do

[jagged barn]

Boot back into the ISO

and then mount your partitions and chroot

[hidden orchid]

Just /mount sda

[dusty summit]

how did you install arch

[hidden orchid]

I updated wine

[dusty summit]

archinstall or manual?

[hidden orchid]

Manual

[dusty summit]

then just chroot and regenerate your initramfs and grub config

and maybe a couple other things idk

[hidden orchid]

Yeah but how tho,

[dusty summit]

might have gone wrong

[dusty summit]

you did it once before

during your install?

[hidden orchid]

With help

[dusty summit]

of course

[hidden orchid]

The terminal is still a bit scary for me

[dusty summit]

and you're using arch..?

[hidden orchid]

Yeah

[dusty summit]

alright someone else can help i'm not gonna

[jagged barn]

Once you're into the ISO, show us lsblk -f

[hidden orchid]

This is why i have a spare arch iso

[dusty summit]

that is probably the strangest partition layour i have ever seen

are you using ventoy or some shit like that

[hidden orchid]

No?

[dusty summit]

disconnect any other irrelivant disks if possible

[dusty summit]

where is your install?

[hidden orchid]

Damn my steam game drive

[hidden orchid]

Sda

[dusty summit]

if you don't have something as easy as just a usb cable then don't bother

[dusty summit]

so just mount your root and boot partitions and then chroot

not super hard

[hidden orchid]

Do i just /mnt sda

?

[dusty summit]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide#Mount_the_file_systems

this should help

your kernel is also missing for some strange reason

but it could be the config?

just chroot and we'll see i guess

[hidden orchid]

It says im already on sda

[vale merlin]

fdisk -l

[hidden orchid]

Yea

Then mount my boot ssd ?

[dusty summit]

what?

[dusty summit]

the hell? what command did you run

[hidden orchid]

None?

[dusty summit]

did you check this

[hidden orchid]

Just mount /dev/sda /mnt

Ye

[dusty summit]

that's good yeah

wait

no

you are mounting a disk when you are supposed to mount a partition like /dev/sda1

[hidden orchid]

I tried sda1 too but nothing happend

[dusty summit]

did you check if something happened?

cd into /mnt and then ls

[hidden orchid]

'EFI, GRUB, INTEL-UNICODE.IMG

[dusty summit]

you mounted your boot partition by accident

you need to mount your root partition

like in the install guide

you have to unmount it now

umount /mnt

then you have to mount /dev/sda3:

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

and then mount the boot partition at the proper location, idk what you used tho but assuming it's /boot:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

can we see the fstab?

[hidden orchid]

When im mounted to root?

[dusty summit]

what?

oh yeah i guess

[hidden orchid]

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab i run this right?

[dusty summit]

no that's to generate it...

i just want to see it

[hidden orchid]

So?

[dusty summit]

so can you show it to me?

[hidden orchid]

Cd fstab? Im actually dumb sorry

[dusty summit]

are you sure arch is for you?

it would be easier to get familiar with linux and unix in something like ubuntu before diving into arch

[hidden orchid]

I dont wanna change distro again

[dusty summit]

but you didn't even do the install by yourself

[hidden orchid]

And normally i dont have problems

[dusty summit]

but when you do because you are scared of the command line and had others do your install for you it means you aren't sure how any of it works, how it's done, or how to fix it

[dusty summit]

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

also do ls /mnt to see if you mounted the right partition

[dusty summit]

ok it looks okay to me...

try doing ls /mnt/boot

[hidden orchid]

'efi'

[dusty summit]

uhh what

just efi?

[hidden orchid]

Yep

[dusty summit]

try ls /mnt/boot/efi?

[hidden orchid]

Nothing

[dusty summit]

fuuuuck

[hidden orchid]

Did my boot thingy fuck up again?

[dusty summit]

you fucked up mounting the esp

either that or you nuked it

do umount /mnt/boot

then do mount sda1 /mnt/boot

[hidden orchid]

No such file or dir

[dusty summit]

on which command

o wait i fucked u[p

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

try that

and if that doesn't work try doing:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot --mkdir

[hidden orchid]

Works

[dusty summit]

@jagged barn what country are you playing as in hoi4

[dusty summit]

cool now rerun ls /mnt/boot

[hidden orchid]

'EFI, GRUB, INTEL-UNICODE.IMG

And boot

[dusty summit]

you have boot inside boot?

[hidden orchid]

Ye

[dusty summit]

do ls /mnt/boot/boot

you shouldn't have boot in boot

[hidden orchid]

Its nothing inside

Just rm it?

[dusty summit]

then delete it with rm /mnt/boot/boot

yeah delete it if it's empty

[hidden orchid]

-R right cuz its a dir

[dusty summit]

it's empty so you don't need it

[hidden orchid]

It says it cant remove it cuz its a dir

[dusty summit]

if you have an empty directory it's better to exclude -r because it saves you from deleting any actual files by mistake

[dusty summit]

but it's empty?

[hidden orchid]

Ye

[dusty summit]

you sure..?

[dusty summit]

ok then do rm -r /mnt/boot/boot i guess

[jagged barn]

Is your EFI partition mounted?

[hidden orchid]

Its busy?

[dusty summit]

what

[hidden orchid]

Idk😔

[dusty summit]

do umount /mnt/boot/boot

i guess

[jagged barn]

Can you show lsblk again?

[dusty summit]

yeah do this lol

[dusty summit]

uhh

what

the fuck

[jagged barn]

That's not right, run umount -R /mnt and see if it can unmount the partition

[hidden orchid]

It said nothing

Do lsblk again?

[jagged barn]

Yes, and check what it says for the sda1 mountpoint

[dusty summit]

yes..?

[hidden orchid]

/mnt

[jagged barn]

Try running this again

[hidden orchid]

Now its nothing

[dusty summit]

yeah you severely fucked up somewhere

idk where but yeah

[jagged barn]

Good, now try mounting sda3 to /mnt

[dusty summit]

maybe just reboot the ISO and try again?

[jagged barn]

it should be fine now

[dusty summit]

ok

[hidden orchid]

"for now"

[dusty summit]

@jagged barn you never answered my question about hoi4

😔

[jagged barn]

south africa in kaiserredux

[dusty summit]

damn

interesting?

[hidden orchid]

I did 'mount /dev/sda3 /mnt' and it gave no errors

[dusty summit]

anyways you can handle this prolly because i don't feel like it

op should already know this if they did a manual install so you can help

[hidden orchid]

Thx btw for helping

[dusty summit]

yw i guess? im just tired

[jagged barn]

Now run arch-chroot /mnt to chroot in, and if you get in, use mount -a to mount the other partitions

[hidden orchid]

Then what?

[jagged barn]

Show us the contents of /boot

[hidden orchid]

'EFI, boot, grub, intel-unicode.img'

[jagged barn]

Is there anything in that boot directory?

[hidden orchid]

Nope

[jagged barn]

Delete it then

[hidden orchid]

'rm /boot/boot' right?

[jagged barn]

rm -rf [directory], but yes

[hidden orchid]

Alr worked

Now try booting?

[jagged barn]

no

that wasn't related to the issue it was just a bit of cleanup

I would try reinstalling the linux package, as the kernel and initramfs seem to be missing

[hidden orchid]

So 'sudo pacman -Syu linux'?

[jagged barn]

You don't need sudo here, but yes

[hidden orchid]

Without undoing chroot orso

[jagged barn]

What?

[hidden orchid]

Nvm

Its done installing

[jagged barn]

Just to be safe, regenerate the GRUB config with grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and then exit out of chroot and reboot

[hidden orchid]

Fingers crossed

IT WORKS THANK YOU SO MUCH

[dusty summit]

did they regen the initramfs?

[jagged barn]

Reinstalling the kernel regenerates it

[dusty summit]

oh yeah i forgor

its a pacman hook

[frosty coral]

Derp can you kindly take a look at my problem

[dusty summit]

your kernel prolly got corrupted like

[jagged barn]

Be sure to be on the lookup for anything else that isn't working properly, as whatever messed up the kernel install may have messed up something else

[dusty summit]

you're using disk encryption and noone wants to deal with disk encryption

[frosty coral]

Sad

[dusty summit]

it's a simple fact of life

[hidden orchid]

Will do

[frosty coral]

If it was a desktop I could do without fde

But it's a laptop

[shy laurel]

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[dusty summit]

just live on the edge like me 😎

or just encrypt the home partition instead of the whole disk, it's the same level of privacy but it's way easier @frosty coral

[hidden orchid]

My whole xfce4 thingy doesn't work lmfao

[dusty summit]

fuuuuuuck

[hidden orchid]

Like i click on the terminal button and nothing happens

[jagged barn]

Are you able to access a TTY with ctrl + alt + F[2-6]?

[hidden orchid]

Nope

[dusty summit]

sometimes you also need fn

[hidden orchid]

Nvm

I did shift lmao

Now just re-install xfce4?

[jagged barn]

Try running pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -, it will reinstall every package