Cannot get into install medium.
#[SOLVED] Cannot get into install medium.
astral tinsel
steep eagle
@astral tinsel photo please
@astral tinsel get a new iso
@astral tinsel try ventoy instead
steep eagle
@astral tinsel try the torrent of arch instead
steep eagle
show me every bios setting please
warm fractal
hm, intriguing
from what I have seen of this, your UEFI firmware can load the FAT filesystem embedded into the ISO fine – hence systemd-boot starting up and the EFI shell being able to load – but systemd-boot itself isn’t able to look into the filesystem and load the kernel
the easiest way to get this working might as well be to attempt to start up the kernel from the EFI shell – from the output, it seems the EFI shell is able to see inside the ISO
I can think of one hiccup here though, which is whether the kernel would be able to load its initramfs given the same quirk
in any case, you can type fs2: or fs3: – one of those two should be the ISO – and then poke around with ls and cd
works like an ordinary shell, just remember to use backslashes as the path separator
once you’ve found the kernel (try to cd into arch\boot\x86_64), you can boot with [path\to\]vmlinuz-linux initrd=\arch\boot\x86_64\initramfs-linux.img archisobasedir=arch archisosearchuuid=2025-04-01-14-28-13-00
if this doesn’t work, we could try making a new install medium by extracting the ISO contents into a FAT partition
warm fractal
I strongly suspect the kernel just isn’t able to load its initramfs or something
we can do the backup option, which is to wipe the USB drive, make a FAT partition, and extract the ISO files into there
at the very least this would make it so that we don’t have to deal with ISO 9660 anymore, which gets rid of that potential failure point
oh, that’s a good plan actually
tidal cargo
I'm having the same issues as this but I do not have the capability to move my NVME so unfortunately I won't be able to copy your solution 😭
steep eagle
what auto install?
how did you install arch?
did you install via the install page? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
astral tinsel
[SOLVED] Cannot get into install medium.
steep eagle
@astral tinsel say how you solved it