SSD not found after installed arch | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:28 PM

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Im also now realising that its not picking up my SSD under lsblk, only my sda which is my hdd

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:30 PM

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sda4 is the partition you put arch on, right? and sda2 is the efi system partition?

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did you ever install grub?

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or systemd-boot or any other boot loader for that matter

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:30 PM

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yeah I installed grub and grub-mkconfig

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:31 PM

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did you run anything grub related

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installing the grub package just gives you the installer binary

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:31 PM

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grub-install --target=x86_64

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that one

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and the mkconfig

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:31 PM

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ok maybe its some bios shenanigans

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:32 PM

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should lsblk show my ssd?

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:32 PM

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tried looking into your uefi settings to check the boot order

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:32 PM

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brittle mesa should lsblk show my ssd?

if it works, it should

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what kind of ssd is it

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:32 PM

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slate knoll tried looking into your uefi settings to check the boot order

yeah it showed only windows boot manager

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but weirdly it comes up as "hard drive"

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:32 PM

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brittle mesa yeah it showed only windows boot manager

which means you probably installed grub wrong

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:33 PM

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on my ssd i also had fedora

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and it disappeared from my boot priorities

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its only Windows and some BIOS thing

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:34 PM

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slate knoll which means you probably installed grub wrong

I followed the guide

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:34 PM

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brittle mesa on my ssd i also had fedora

curious. is it sata or m.2

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:34 PM

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brittle mesa I followed the guide

what guide

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:34 PM

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hmm idrk tbh

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I was cross-referencing some youtube videos

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and the wiki itself

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just a bit of everything

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:34 PM

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huh

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just uhhh try installing it again?

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:35 PM

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I was looking at several videos at the same time

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just the grub?

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:35 PM

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yeah

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since your filesystem is created you can skip to mounting and chrooting

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:36 PM

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also this is when i booted back into the live iso
should my mountpoints be still defined?

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:36 PM

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they should not, iso does not save your progress

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for all i can see you have sda4 as root and sda2 as boot

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what was sda3 supposed to be?

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:36 PM

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swap

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:36 PM

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cool, you dont need that in a chroot

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:42 PM

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but first I think i need to make sure why lsblk is not showing up my other drive??

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:43 PM

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does it show up in windows

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:43 PM

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yes it works

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:43 PM

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then its fine

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:43 PM

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but dont I need to put the bootloader on my ssd or how does it work

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these are the drives that appear on device manager

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:44 PM

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your bootloader is wherever your efi system partition is, which is /dev/sda2 on your earlier screenshots

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grub needs to be next to windows boot loader

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:45 PM

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I also have bootloader on my ssd

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for my other linux

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:45 PM

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yeah, but can you boot it?

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:45 PM

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and my windows bootloader is ssd also

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no those dont appear anymore

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:45 PM

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exactly

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:45 PM

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so im still doing it correctly right?

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:46 PM

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open the disk management utility, the one where windows lets you partition drives, and see if you still have partitions on the fedora ssd

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:46 PM

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theres a efi for my windows on my ssd, another efi for fedora, and now for my arch its on a different drive (hdd) with its own efi, root and swap.

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:48 PM

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uhhhhhhh

dive deeper into your bios? maybe there are more options related to boot order?

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curious, so disk 0 is the only one seen by archiso

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:49 PM

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yeah ig

slate knoll Jan 15, 2025, 3:49 PM

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thats something like extremely weird on your device

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 3:49 PM

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also they used to be the other way round

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Idk why recently they just swapped lol

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clearer screenshot

lyric quartz Jan 15, 2025, 4:00 PM

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when booting up can you change the boot device order? there should be an option to boot from efi file.
locate your grub file and boot into arch

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basically i had a similar issue today, turns out my boot records were full
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#efibootmgr
use this tool to delete old entries

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

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then run sudo grub-install --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB with esp being your efi partition

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 4:03 PM

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ngl

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i think imma just clean reset everything

lyric quartz Jan 15, 2025, 4:04 PM

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peepoSip

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 4:04 PM

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its getting messy anyway

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just backing up what i need

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 6:53 PM

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I just clean wiped both my drives

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fdisk -l only lists my hard drive. why?

brittle mesa Jan 15, 2025, 7:40 PM

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update: After I factory reset both my drives, deleted all the partitions, reinstalled windows again, set SATA mode to AHCI disabled fast boot in windows, disabled fast boot in bios and when I run lsblk or fdisk -l it finally shows my ssd

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