Broken Arch Install

[misty kelp]

Tried to install arch and on reboot to attempt to boot in, it loaded a menu that said something to the effect of "load into firmware" and letting either the auto selection clock tick down or selecting the actual option sent me to my bios screen. As well, trying to open my actual boot menu by restarting my computer and hitting F12 results in that same menu that sends me to my bios. During the install I used the systemd bootloader through bootctl install and had both the basic vmlinuz-linux.img and the intell microcode lines in my initrd section of what was my boot entries directory. I truly have no clue as to what caused this

[plush turtle]

Verify that your bootloader is installed correctly on a FAT32 partition. This is caused by a missing/broken bootloader.

[copper belfry]

i had this isue

i installed correctly

and it still broke

i think its a glitch

[misty kelp]

What part specifically is caused by that? The broken boot menu or the firmware menu selection upon trying bott the Linux manager from BIOS

[plush turtle]

Both; they’re likely symptoms of the same issue

[misty kelp]

Hopefully I'll get it right on this go round of the install

[plush turtle]

You shouldn’t need to fully reinstall, just the bootloader needs fixed.

[misty kelp]

I had attempted to load into the actual drive by unmounting, rebooting, and removing the USB i was using to install. WhennI put the USB back in, the only thing that had saved were the partitions written to the drive

[plush turtle]

And the data within the partitions, right?

Changes made to the ISO are not saved.

[misty kelp]

I don't believe the data saved, I attempted to open my boot loader entries directory and it said it didn't exist

[plush turtle]

Then yea you might need to fully reinstall

You probably forgot to mount your partitions or did so incorrectly.

[misty kelp]

I currently am, I'm waiting on rankmirrors to finish

[plush turtle]

Ok

Make sure you mount /boot/ after /

[misty kelp]

I put the initial /mnt into my root partitions and then made a /mnt/boot and /mnt/home directory that I put into my boot and home partitions respectively

[plush turtle]

Good

[misty kelp]

And I've done that already on this install

[plush turtle]

Ok, just making sure.

[misty kelp]

My rankmirrors is going mad slow, you got any tips on how I could get it going right?

It's been sitting trying to rank the mirrors for like 20 minutes at this point

[misty kelp]

I'll try it again tomorrow or something, this shit is mad confusing. I'll try it by the manual next time instead of Mutahar's video

[copper belfry]

huh

i cant do it

i installed with iso

arch install wont work

just errors

just manual

install

[plush turtle]

Yea, use the installation guide on the wiki, not videos.

[misty kelp]

Would typing mkfs.fat -F32 cause any sever issues instead of mkfs.fat -F 32

[misty kelp]

Is DHCPCD only for ethernet connections? I saw on a post on the arch forums that it'll work if you have an rj45 connection, which is evidently a type of ethernet cable

[plush turtle]

I believe they are the same. I’ve always used the latter because that’s what the wiki uses.

[misty kelp]

I'm going to retry the weekend after this one and let you know any issues/questions I face during the install

[plush turtle]

Ok

[misty kelp]

Using an arch install video to get step by step instructions for parts where that isn't given in the arch install guide is a decent/common practice for new users yeah?

[misty kelp]

The whole timedatectl stuff can be skipped and done once there's a working GUI yeah?