[solved]grub bootloader installation help

[long cobalt]

De is kde plasma

Arch Linux will not boot show up in boot menu
I've been fiddling with grub and nothing is working

[umbral adder]

ok hi

[long cobalt]

Hi

[umbral adder]

so

hmmm

ok

first thing you should do is activate your swap

swapon /dev/sda2

[long cobalt]

Exit out of chroot or stay

[umbral adder]

stay

doesnt matter i think

next thing to do will be mounting your EFI partition

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

because it looks like from your screenshot that sda1 wasn't mounted

then, double check all partitions in sda1 have something next to them, boot, or swap, or just /

lsblk

[long cobalt]

It said swap header failed

I don't even know anymore

[umbral adder]

you can come back and fix swap later..

i have never seen an issue with that

[umbral adder]

did you run this?

[long cobalt]

I'll do mkdir next then

[umbral adder]

did you chroot into your system yet?

im guessing yes

[long cobalt]

It worked

[umbral adder]

ok cool

can you show lsblk?

[umbral adder]

oh shit

did you chroot?

[long cobalt]

Yes I'm in chroot

[umbral adder]

ok sorry

in that case, run
umount /dev/sda1 then
mount --mkdir /dev/sda1 /boot

i made a mistake, sorry

this will unmount your boot partition and remount it to the correct file location

did you set the correct time, locale, etc?

did you install all the packages you want?

[long cobalt]

Ok done

Yes I did

[umbral adder]

okay

[long cobalt]

I made a user account and pass

Set the time and language

[umbral adder]

okay

did you set the time and locale?

[long cobalt]

Yes

[umbral adder]

okay

so the only other thing that probably has to happen is to redo genfstab

[long cobalt]

Ok

[umbral adder]

because we changed our partition layout

so run:
genfstab -U / >> /etc/fstab

@nova python hi there am i teaching bad

[nova python]

not available in the chroot unless the package arch-install-scripts is installed

[umbral adder]

i see

@long cobalt did you have that issue

[nova python]

so I would just do that last after exiting chroot

[umbral adder]

okay

[long cobalt]

Oh ok

[umbral adder]

ok

so now we're back to the original problem

which was grub-install

you want
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/dev/sda1/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB

[long cobalt]

Go back to chroot

[umbral adder]

what?

[long cobalt]

Do I type all of that in chroot

[umbral adder]

pretty sure yes

[nova python]

wrong efi-directory

[long cobalt]

Ok

[nova python]

it should be the mountpoint of the efi system partition

[umbral adder]

shit sorry

i think i fixed it.?

[long cobalt]

Ok this happened when I went to chroot

[umbral adder]

this is a little scuffed now

lol

which is probably my fault

[nova python]

can we pause for a bit I can't type this fast

[long cobalt]

Ok

[nova python]

shouldn't have ran this outside chroot like this

[umbral adder]

easily fixed though

[nova python]

this should probably be --efi-directory=/boot unless it's somewhere else

[umbral adder]

oh shit yeah

ok

so

[nova python]

doing it from the outside changes the command

[umbral adder]

@long cobalt you are NOT in chroot right?

[long cobalt]

I'll exit out

[nova python]

I think they are

the fstab warnings can be ignored I think

[long cobalt]

Ok back to the regular

[umbral adder]

nevermind then, my bad

you can chroot

for grub install (according to @nova python
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB

after you chroot

[long cobalt]

Ok

[umbral adder]

report back soldier

[long cobalt]

Do I space -id

[umbral adder]

no

[long cobalt]

Ok

[umbral adder]

that command should be typed exactly as is

[long cobalt]

Ill show you what I wrote before I press enter

[umbral adder]

okay

[umbral adder]

it looks perfect

[nova python]

looks good to me

[long cobalt]

Ok pressing enter

It's still saying doesn't exist

[nova python]

show

[long cobalt]

I dont know what I possibly could have done

[umbral adder]

oh

you missedd the x lol

x86, not 86

[zealous nexus]

this is why I recommended pop-os instead of arch

[umbral adder]

hush

[umbral adder]

you forgot the x lol

im sorry i didnt catch that

[nova python]

poop os

I think there still might be a prob with the mounts

[umbral adder]

it wouldn't surprise me

[nova python]

look at this lsblk

[long cobalt]

Oh I did lol

How did I not catch that

[nova python]

esp is at /mnt/mnt/boot

if that's still the case then it'll fail

[umbral adder]

ah

youre so right

[nova python]

did it fail?

[umbral adder]

i tred correcting it with this though

why would this not fix it?

[nova python]

it would fix it, I just haven't read most of the context for this

[long cobalt]

It went through

But it said installation failed

[nova python]

then you can move on

oh

[long cobalt]

New problem lol

[nova python]

so it didn't go through

[umbral adder]

send image

[nova python]

show

[umbral adder]

it says NO error reported

[long cobalt]

Oh ist finished

[nova python]

no it didn't

[long cobalt]

I'm sorry my mind just expects failure

[umbral adder]

its okay

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

last thing

[nova python]

hallucinating

[long cobalt]

I saw erroband went into a panic

[umbral adder]

probably then have to exit chroot and fix fstab

[long cobalt]

But it was no error lol

[nova python]

after this exit chroot and genfstab -U /mnt > /mnt/etc/fstab

[long cobalt]

Ok

[nova python]

and you should be able to boot after

[umbral adder]

assuming everything else was done correctly - which i'll take your word for - you can unmount everything and reboot

[umbral adder]

this is mising an arrow right?

[long cobalt]

So had to step out for a second

[umbral adder]

or does it matter

actually ngl idk difference between > and >>

[nova python]

one arrow means the file gets wiped first, two arrows appends the new content

[umbral adder]

oh

haha

that is a big difference

[nova python]

unmounting before rebooting is like using the safely remove usb feature on windows

[umbral adder]

according to installation wiki

this allows noticing any "busy" partitions, and finding the cause with fuser(1).

final check for any nuclear issues

[nova python]

yeah dont care

wiki yap

[long cobalt]

Back had to get water

And use bathroom

Do the grub-mkconfig?

[umbral adder]

yeah

then exit chroot and rerun the genfstab thing

scroll up for the exact commands

[long cobalt]

This good

[nova python]

extra space at /mnt/etc

[long cobalt]

Ok

Ok went through

What do unmount

Also when I reboot

Plug the usb out right ?

[full rampart]

if the login page greets you

[long cobalt]

@nova python what do I unmount

[umbral adder]

hi hi

umount -R /mnt

this is optional btw

you can just reboot if you want

[nova python]

yes

[umbral adder]

success..?\

i give it 50/50

[long cobalt]

Ok

Ok here we go

It worked

[full rampart]

🥳

[umbral adder]

CONGRATS!!!!!

good job!

[zealous nexus]

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[zealous nexus]

@long cobalt

[long cobalt]

God

[umbral adder]

@long cobalt if you have any more questions you can add me and DM

[long cobalt]

Thankyou all so much

[umbral adder]

or you can just open more forum posts here!

people are very willing to help

[full rampart]

lmao

[long cobalt]

I'll add you tha k you so much

[umbral adder]

@nova python i was worried that would fail catastrophically after you pointed out the weird lsblk

[long cobalt]

I havent eaten dinner yet lol

I need a nap

[solved]grub bootloader installation help

I'm never doing that again

[nova python]

it gets easier each time

[umbral adder]

yep

@long cobalt

[full rampart]

lmao

[long cobalt]

I'm putting fedora or mint on my laptop

[nova python]

until you hit the skill ceiling and can do it from memory

[umbral adder]

are you a non-native english speaker?

[full rampart]

watch him break it 🤣

😂

[long cobalt]

Yeah

[full rampart]

😹

[umbral adder]

then you level up to like gentoo or something

[long cobalt]

From Jamaica

Moved to us

[umbral adder]

very cool, you speak well

gentoo install is actually the same pretty much

[nova python]

they speak english in jamaica

[long cobalt]

You did Gentoo is eaiser

[full rampart]

lmao

[nova python]

americans don't speak english though

[umbral adder]

YO WHAT

[zealous nexus]

pop-os is recommended

[long cobalt]

It's a broken English yeah

[umbral adder]

gulp

sorry....

[long cobalt]

I'm off to eat now

[umbral adder]

if you want to use arch but with an easy installation process, you could try endeavourOS

it's basically just arch with an installer

[full rampart]

ew

[umbral adder]

English-based creole language
ITS NOT ENGLISH...

[zealous nexus]

@umbral adder @full rampart @nova python -> #off-topic

[umbral adder]

okay

[nova python]

thumbs down for this shit

[umbral adder]

what a party pooper