#Stuck on grub command prompt after following arch linux installation perfectly

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craggy charm
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Can someone help. I installed everything without error and the process went smoothly. I just cant boot anywhere and only gives me the option to go to the grub command prompt or to go back to UEFI firmware settings

plucky rivet
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@craggy charm photo please

craggy charm
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The highlighted text reads *UEFI Firmware Settings

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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Do you think i could fix whatever the problem is from here

iron sparrow
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Well, im pretty sure you cant even get into tty yet, so im not sure how to even diagnose this

craggy charm
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What could I have messed up to get here

iron sparrow
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did you, mayhaps, lets say, forget to set the / directory?

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to be fair im just guessing, never had an issue of grub now showing me basically anything

craggy charm
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Yea

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I mounted my /dev/sdb3 drive to it

iron sparrow
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Maybe someone who had to do a bit more troubleshooting than me can tell what how this issue came to be

craggy charm
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And formatted it to ext4

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Yea cause I was just using the guide off the arch linux website to download it and the only thing I did by myself was download grub but even then there were guides on the arch linux website

iron sparrow
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oh

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It could be just that grub doesnt know where to lead to boot then

craggy charm
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It does

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Part of the guide

iron sparrow
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you configured grub?

craggy charm
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Yea

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It was the last step I followed

plucky rivet
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@craggy charm you need to chroot into your partition

craggy charm
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How can I do that

iron sparrow
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Im not sure if im "allowed" to recomment arch-chroot

plucky rivet
iron sparrow
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well, in my eyes nothing. i got banned from another server for recommending archinstall once, soooooo

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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I mean yea but it was a GPT UEFI bootable USB and when i tried to boot into it it didnt appear. Rn im downloading just a regular MBR bootable and turning Compatability Mode on

iron sparrow
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the amount of times ventoy saved my ass..

craggy charm
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Ok so all my progress is gone i think

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i have no clue. I tried clicking boot existing OS and nothing happens

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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so should i try redownloading it for the millionth time

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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unless you do something that im not thinking of i mean

craggy charm
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Ok then i am just a bit dumb cause i might have reinstalled the same thing over and over ok

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Alr so do i click the Arch linux install medium

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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well everytime i did i would delete all partitions from my drives and start all over again

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like i would go all the way back to square 1

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I really dont know what im doing im just trying to learn😭

iron sparrow
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when you get to tty, type
fdisk -l mount **YOUR ROOT** /mnt mount **BOOT** /mnt/boot arch-chroot /mnt

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after that first id check
cd /boot/grub if grub.cfg is there

craggy charm
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ok before i go into this

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i downloaded the whole thing through UEFI but on this arch linux install medium it says it will be through bios

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will that effect anything

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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like i booted it through UEFI

iron sparrow
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i dont think it should make a difference

craggy charm
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Ok hopefully youre right

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lemme do what you said and ill get back to you

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wait all my partitions are unmounted

iron sparrow
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yes

iron sparrow
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you have only your USB mounted

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before arch-chroot you need to mount root and boot first

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tbh, it doesnt really matter if grub.cfg is there or no

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i'd say run grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg and see what it throws at you

craggy charm
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ok

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I just ran arch-chroot /mnt and it says the mount point does not exist

iron sparrow
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no

craggy charm
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like cause i was still doing things from before sorry

iron sparrow
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did you mount root beforehand?

iron sparrow
craggy charm
iron sparrow
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you need to run mount **UR ROOT** /mnt

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u did that? with boot also?

craggy charm
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yes

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i could take a pictire

iron sparrow
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can you do fdisk -l and send a pic?

craggy charm
iron sparrow
craggy charm
iron sparrow
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eeeeeeeeeeehm

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are you sure... you set up boot...?

craggy charm
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its in the thing above

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in sdb1

iron sparrow
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/dev/nvme0n1p1      4096   2052095   2048000  1000M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2   2052096 446193663 444141568 211.8G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p3 446193664 976773119 530579456   253G Linux filesystem```
craggy charm
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should i like reformat them

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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could that be it

iron sparrow
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you see how its different?

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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ok. i format it to fat32 right

iron sparrow
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yep

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mount it on /boot/efi (same as /boot, habit)

craggy charm
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It still doesnt want to show up as EFI system

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it still shows as a linux filesystem

iron sparrow
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does arch-chroot work if you bind it to /mnt/boot/efi
and root to /mnt

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?

craggy charm
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wait hold on i mightve messed something up

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it says /mnt/boot/efi does not exist

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should i make the directory

iron sparrow
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wait im really lost now

craggy charm
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and have the whole things come out to be:
mount --mkdir /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot/efi

iron sparrow
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what happens if you run
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot/efi

craggy charm
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it says it doesnt exist

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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what doesnt exist?

craggy charm
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the exact error message is :
mount: /mnt/boot/efi: mount point does not exist.

iron sparrow
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what if you just go /mnt/boot

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and not efi

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maybe im acoustic

craggy charm
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i tried that and it still shows as a linux filesystem

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I think its because of the BIOS thing but i have no clue

iron sparrow
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do you get an error msg if you go mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot?

craggy charm
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no

iron sparrow
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okay

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do that

craggy charm
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ok i did

iron sparrow
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whats ur root?

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sdb3?

craggy charm
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yes

iron sparrow
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do mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt

craggy charm
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the tutorial also told me to create /mnt/boot

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idk if that changes anything

craggy charm
iron sparrow
craggy charm
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oh it works now

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idk what was different

iron sparrow
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okay

craggy charm
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Alright now what

iron sparrow
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just for my sanity, do this

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cd /boot/grub

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ls

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and send a picture

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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do cd

craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg

craggy charm
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Ok

iron sparrow
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gimme the response

craggy charm
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it says it added a boot menu entry for uefi firmware settings

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and it hasnt added anything else

iron sparrow
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run os-prober

craggy charm
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it says command not found

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should i just download it

iron sparrow
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sure

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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whats the response of systemctl status systemd-resolved

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are you conected with ethernet?

craggy charm
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oh shit i didnt connect

iron sparrow
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lol

craggy charm
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Jesus christ

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ok i have os prober now

iron sparrow
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run it

craggy charm
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it didnt do anything

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i type it in like os-prober right

iron sparrow
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os-prober

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yes

craggy charm
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yea nothing happens

iron sparrow
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did you download grub efibootmgr?

craggy charm
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just did

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still nothing

iron sparrow
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nano /etc/fstab

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what does it say

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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i feel like something missed during install or grub config or something

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run grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi

craggy charm
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It says it doesnt look like an efi partition

iron sparrow
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yea that was my point

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your boot doesnt look like boot

craggy charm
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yea

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idk how to change it

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im mounting it to boot

iron sparrow
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1min let me check

craggy charm
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Alright

iron sparrow
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yea but the partition itself doesnt look like a boot partition at all

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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how do i make it a boot partition in the first place

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cause i just fdisk and made a new partition

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wait i think i just figured it out

iron sparrow
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i think you did the steps out of order

craggy charm
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mightve

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but i also found out i was suppose to change the type

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im gonna try it rn

iron sparrow
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that's why grub wasnt seeing anything imo

craggy charm
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shoot

iron sparrow
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lets see, not sure yet

craggy charm
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Yes

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yes

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i did it

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it shows as a efi system

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now what do i do

iron sparrow
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ayyyy

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mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot

craggy charm
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already did i

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it

iron sparrow
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grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg

craggy charm
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Oh wait it redid it for some reason

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it says fsconfig system call failed

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and that it cant open blockdev

iron sparrow
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after you did mkconfig?

craggy charm
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no the mounting

iron sparrow
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umount /dev/sdb1

craggy charm
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it says its not mounted

iron sparrow
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and it doesnt wanna mount it either?

craggy charm
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yea

iron sparrow
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install nfs-utils

craggy charm
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it says could not lock database: read only file system

iron sparrow
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whats the response of lsblk -f

craggy charm
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it shows all my other partitions mounted but sdb1

iron sparrow
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oh my god i think im dumb

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do

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exit

craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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try to mount now xD

craggy charm
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i downloaded the nfs-utils

iron sparrow
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can u mount now after u exited

craggy charm
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and i still get the same error

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for the mounting

iron sparrow
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did you exit tho?

craggy charm
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yes

iron sparrow
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thats super weird then

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id say restart, boot from usb and lets do mount again

craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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reboot

craggy charm
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the error is mount point does not exist

iron sparrow
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huh??

craggy charm
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im just gonna create the /boot directory in /mnt cause thats what it says to do in the actual installation guide

iron sparrow
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just mkdir

craggy charm
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ok

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Ok it looks good

iron sparrow
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mounted?

craggy charm
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Yep

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and its the EFI system

iron sparrow
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okay, arch-chroot /mnt

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grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg

craggy charm
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It said it added a boot menu entry for UEFI firmware settings again

iron sparrow
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did u make fstab?

craggy charm
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i did when i installed it originally. Should i do it again

iron sparrow
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trype nano /etc/fstab

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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do pacman -Syu

craggy charm
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it failed

iron sparrow
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wait, you deleted /boot?

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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Failed to syncronize all databases

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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connected to internet?

craggy charm
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god damnit

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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ok

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what do i do after

iron sparrow
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you -Syu'd?

craggy charm
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its in the process

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nvm

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it says errors occured and no packages were upgrades

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now it says reached target multi-user system and graphical interface

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and i have lost the ability to type

iron sparrow
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are you not dual booting are you?

craggy charm
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i just control c and i tried it again and it says failed to synchronize all databases

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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pacman -Syy

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then try pacman -Syu again

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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my dear lord

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go pacman -S pacman-mirrorlist

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nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

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uncomment a few and try Syu again

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im not even sure what im trying to do by updating, just hope it does something

craggy charm
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no servers configured for repository:core

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i tried to do pacman -Sy and -Syu

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and i cant use nano cause i cant download anything

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should i reboot again

iron sparrow
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are you in arch-chroot or no?

craggy charm
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I am now

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and everything is downloaded

iron sparrow
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blimey

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Syu works?

craggy charm
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yep

iron sparrow
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okay

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lets try this

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grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sd1

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maybe we got the wrong one

craggy charm
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filesystem fat doesnt support embedding

iron sparrow
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are you mbr or gpt, do you know?

craggy charm
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probably mbr now

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since im using BIOS

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but when i initially did it it ran with gpt

iron sparrow
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what do you mean, im confused

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you cant really hop between them, afaik at least

craggy charm
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how can i check

iron sparrow
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you know what i would really advise

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because god knows what is borked now

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to wipe everything, use archinstall, and be up and running in 15 mins

craggy charm
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ok

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thank you so much for your time regardless

iron sparrow
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i can lead you thru the archinstall if you wanna do it now

iron sparrow
craggy charm
cinder cryptBOT
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boglui received a thank you cookie!

iron sparrow
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alrighty

plucky rivet
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@craggy charm what de/wm are you going to pick?

iron sparrow
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just exit arch-chroot

craggy charm
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I have no clue what that means

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ok

craggy charm
iron sparrow
iron sparrow
craggy charm
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i got the no servers configured error

iron sparrow
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i think u need to connect to wifi again cuz u exited chroot

craggy charm
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ok

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ok i installed the archinstall

iron sparrow
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okay

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now just type archinstall

craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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and now you get basically kind of a terminal looking GUI

craggy charm
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Yea

iron sparrow
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okay

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now, u use space to select and enter to go back xDDD

craggy charm
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what is the bootloader

iron sparrow
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thats grub/systemd

craggy charm
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like how would i make my OS look as clean as possible just from these settings. Ik i have to configure most of it when im actually in the OS but is there anything i can do here?

iron sparrow
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id leave it on grub

iron sparrow
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so

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and you basically select a drive,
bootloader i recommend grub
, swap to true
, hostname to whatever u want
you put ur account to superuser
audio i use pulse
kernel i use default

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when you click specify profile id there's a few presets, id say just do desktop because you will be the most comfortable with that in the beginning, since im guessing you come from windows

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you can experiment and try something else afterwards, its really easy to change them, thats what Tofu meant by asking what DE(Desktop Enviroment) you're gonna choose

craggy charm
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How do i make myself a superuser

iron sparrow
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go to specify user account and make one

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then you get the option promote/demote user

craggy charm
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I dont see that

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and i made the desktop thing hyprland

iron sparrow
iron sparrow
craggy charm
iron sparrow
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Right above profile

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User account

craggy charm
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ok i clicked it

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do i put add a user

iron sparrow
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Yes

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And when you make one, promote it to a superuser

craggy charm
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it keeps saying the username i entered is invalid

iron sparrow
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It cant have spaces

craggy charm
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i had a capital at the beginning

iron sparrow
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that too xD

craggy charm
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ok do i need anything else like additional packages or can i just set that up at another time

iron sparrow
iron sparrow
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im gonna get crucified if someone sees this, but i recomment KDE for DE

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looks something like this

QAvBfGh.png
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but i think that would be it more or less

craggy charm
iron sparrow
iron sparrow
craggy charm
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no

iron sparrow
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it should've

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click on profile

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after you choose DE it should give you something like this

OmIiKq5.png
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if u have Nvidia GPU choose proprietary

craggy charm
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got it

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and what is that greeter thing

iron sparrow
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ehmmmm, that's kind of like a "log in screen" on windows i guess

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you can also change that on the fly later too

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i use sddm

craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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if you're done u can just click install

craggy charm
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Ok

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and do you know how long this usually takes

iron sparrow
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well it shouldnt take long, since you're not downloading anything now i guess(unless you configured network)

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but you will need to do that afterwards anyways, so probably better to do it now

craggy charm
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So it says it could not strap in packages

iron sparrow
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did you configure network?

craggy charm
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for xorg-server, xorg-xinit, nvidia-dkms, dkms, --noconfirm

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i mightve

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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it just seems like the drivers for the graphics card though

iron sparrow
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no big deal

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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it also starts with /usr/bin/pacstrap, /etc/pacman.conf

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that they could not strap in those packages either

iron sparrow
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its okay

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its still installing right?

craggy charm
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or /mnt/archinstall

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no its asking if i wanna retry downloading them

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should i just say no cause it fails every time

iron sparrow
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just say no

craggy charm
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failed to install packages to new root

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doesnt work period

iron sparrow
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and stopped?

craggy charm
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yep

iron sparrow
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do it again but set up network

craggy charm
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it says at the top there were conflicts with the nvidia modules

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should i try downloading it without them

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ok

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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ok

iron sparrow
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worst case we can fix it in tty afterwards

craggy charm
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how do i set up network

iron sparrow
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just select network configuration

craggy charm
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i selected copy iso network configuration to installation

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is that fine

iron sparrow
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i supose, never used wifi on setup 😄

craggy charm
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ok im trying the download again

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Its asking if i want to chroot into the new installation

iron sparrow
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no need

craggy charm
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ok so just click no

iron sparrow
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yep

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then reboot

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and 🤞 we boot into arch

craggy charm
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Hopefully

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ok now only one monitor works

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oh wait nvm

iron sparrow
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could be nvidia drivers or just until you get into the actual DE

craggy charm
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I cant get past the login screen

iron sparrow
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try to login on the other monitor

craggy charm
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my password isnt working

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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no it just goes black and restarts

iron sparrow
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oh

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i think i had this issue

craggy charm
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what do i do

iron sparrow
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restart, and when u get to grub change kernel parameters

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i forgot what button, i think E?

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and then at the end of the line add nvidia-drm.modeset=1

craggy charm
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how do i change parameters

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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ok

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and then at the bottom just type out what you sent

iron sparrow
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send me a picture

craggy charm
iron sparrow
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no thats not it

craggy charm
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the command line?

iron sparrow
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it should say kernel parameters or something

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let me restart pc to check what button it is

craggy charm
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it says e to edit commands before booting or c for a command-line

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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yea and that sends me to what i sent in the photo

iron sparrow
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Yea mine is the same i just checked ncm

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Do you see a line starting with linux?

craggy charm
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Yes

iron sparrow
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Add what i sent at the end if that line

craggy charm
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what did you add

iron sparrow
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nvidia-drm.modeset=1

craggy charm
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ok i did

iron sparrow
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see if u can log in now

craggy charm
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nope

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doesnt work

iron sparrow
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okay

craggy charm
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alr im gonna call it a night but thank you so much for everything. If you have the chance i can come back to this tomorrow

iron sparrow
craggy charm
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Alright thank you so much again

iron sparrow
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no worries man! Good night 🫡

craggy charm
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Im also gonna try and find a fix. If it just doesnt work i might try downloading arch with something other than hyprland

iron sparrow
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When you boot, after grub press ctrl+alt+f2
That should get you in a terminal(tty)

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You should just be able to run pacman -Syu there, and hopefully its going to download nvidia-dkms by itself

craggy charm
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Ok so i completely scrapped it and downloaded GNOME

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and now im stuck on failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files) after everytime i try to pacman -Syu

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But I logged in and the network manager is not working so thats what ive been trying to do

iron sparrow
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What’s the response of systemctl status networkmanager

craggy charm
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it says it could not be found

iron sparrow
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Try capital NM

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NetworkManager

craggy charm
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could not be found

iron sparrow
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Do
sudo systemctl stop dhcpcd

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sudo systemctl start dhcpcd

craggy charm
craggy charm
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it says the unit wasnt loaded for both

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im redownloading it again

iron sparrow
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What

craggy charm
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The whole thing. Im gonna just download the network manager through the installer

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or try to

craggy charm
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I am so happy to say that everything works perfectly now

plucky rivet
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... solved

cyan loomBOT
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plucky rivet
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@craggy charm

iron sparrow
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Congrats

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Now you need to neofetch and flex on all the debian pugs

craggy charm