did you unplug the usb? lol
#trouble installing arch
simple bolt
unkempt crow
yea
sleek gorge
what is your bootloader?
sleek gorge
idk thats the problem
I mean you'll have selected it it...
unkempt crow
grub
sleek gorge
I don't know if archinstall script does or doesn't put --removable in there
you mentioned it's MSI, sometimes that's needed because they don't follow UEFI standards or some shit?
.aw grub
granite moatBOT
sleek gorge
so it could be worth chrooting in and running this command (with your efi partition mounted):
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB --removable
Remember to change --efi-directory=esp so that esp is the mountpoint of your efi partition
granite moatBOT
unkempt crow
so it could be worth chrooting in and running this command (with your efi partit...
how can i run this command
im stuck in bios
sleek gorge
im stuck in bios
as I say you'd need to chroot in via the iso
do you understand what I'm asking you to do?
unkempt crow
not exactly
sleek gorge
okay, you might in general struggle with arch if you're not sure what all of these things mean, but I'll do my best to explain
you have at least 2 partitions, 1 is your bootloader, the other is your root. You may have other partitions (like a seperate one for home or swap, or for other operating systems).
The bootloader will generally be less than 1GB. It is where grub gets installed to.
The other is your root, and will be much bigger.
When you go into the ISO (the USB stick) and enter the environment for installing arch, you can run a lot of commands, because a lot of programs are installed on the ISO.
For instance:
lsblk -f would show you your partitions, their UUID (don't worry about that right now) and their mount point.
You traditionally would then mount the root partition you already have, as arch is installed, to /mnt
Then you would mount your boot partition to either /mnt/boot or /mnt/boot/efi
The exact command will depend on what filesystem your root partition is using, but if it was ext4 it'd be as simple as:
mount /dev/<root partition> /mnt
and then
mount /dev/<efi partition> /mnt/boot
As an example
from there you would simply do the command:
arch-chroot /mnt which takes you into your install environment. Note you have moved from / to /mnt, but you're in a chroot environment, so you treat the directories as if you are just loaded normally.
the mountpoint here for /mnt/boot would thus lose the /mnt to become /boot
After that, you would run this command:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB --removable
Notice how I choose the /boot as the efi-directory.
After that you probably want to double check the initramfs are installed correctly:
pacman -S linux if you're using the stock kernel.
Followed by:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg - note that this command will not change regardless of if you installed the bootloader with the mount /boot or /boot/efi
unkempt crow
whats my root partition
sleek gorge
So I assume that means you have subvolumes setup
sleek gorge
Your efi will be nvme0n1p1 and your root will be nvme0n1p2
Do you know what sub volumes are setup?
unkempt crow
idk
sleek gorge
I can’t really help much more right now as I’m on mobile now. Sorry about that. But arch is a very manual distro, I do think you might learn a lot more if you follow the wiki installation guide above and do a manual install instead
unkempt crow
ok ill try
sleek gorge
If you don’t know what sub volumes are I think you’re missing a lot of the point of btrfs, might be better sticking with ext4, but your choice entirely
unkempt crow
I used archinstall so yea im missing out so much
sleek gorge
If you do do a manual install I recommend making a new thread, and asking questions there.
And if you do decide what partitions you want, what filesystem you want, what DE you want, what drivers you think you’ll need (especially relevant if nvidia gpu)
Encryption or no encryption
Etc.