[SOLVED] No bootable devices found.

[quaint bear]

I've used the arch install script and after It finished, I rebooted and got this error "no bootable devices found"

[urban socket]

What are your options in the boot menu?

[quaint bear]

I'm not stupid

Wdym

[urban socket]

When you enter the boot menu, what do you see?

[quaint bear]

Wait I'll show u

So basically there is

Manjaro
Anduinos
Windows boot manager
And SanDisk the USB I have arch on

The first three are previous operating systems

[urban socket]

Previous? So the only OS on your computer is Arch right now?

[quaint bear]

Yea

It's installed

But not booting in to it

[urban socket]

Okay, boot back into the USB

I assume it's an UEFI system?

[quaint bear]

Yup

[urban socket]

Mount your root and EFI partition, show the contents of your EFI partition

[quaint bear]

How

I'm a newbie sorry

[urban socket]

lsblk
mount /dev/<your_root_partition> /mnt
mount /dev/<your_efi_partition> /mnt/boot

I assume you mounted it under /boot during installation

Then,

ls /boot

to show me what's inside

Perhaps the bootloader wasn't installed properly

I unfortunately gotta go now so hopefully someone else helps you with that

[quaint bear]

Alr

[raw trail]

You'll need to use efibootmgr to delete the entries of old systems, or do it from your UEFI

[raw trail]

Change boot order

[raw trail]

Reboot to arch iso and chroot

.aw chroot

right, qbot is down

[quaint bear]

The problem is that arch doesn't even show on the boot menu

What if I just use an older version of the arch linux iso-

I'll reinstall it

In archinstall

What if I manually partition it

So basically

I got sda1 that has 1gb, the flags are: boot,esp

Sda2: 32gb no flags

Sda3: 134 gb flags: linux-home

[urban socket]

No you don't

[urban socket]

It will only make it worse

[quaint bear]

Alr then

I did the archinstall again didnt work

[urban socket]

Just show me what's in /boot

/mnt/boot

Did you do manual partitioning?

[quaint bear]

No

Best effort thing

[quaint bear]

This might help?

[urban socket]

I still want to see the contents of your EFI partition

[quaint bear]

Tell me the cammand and I'll do it

[raw trail]

remake the bootable usb with ventoy on gpt mode

[quaint bear]

.

Alright then

I'll chose gpt mode and then update right?

[raw trail]

what filesystem you want to use?

[raw trail]

I mean, idk how you made the usb to begin with

[quaint bear]

I have one with rufus and the other with ventoy

[raw trail]

boot to arch iso , then lsblk -f

[raw trail]

use ventoy

[quaint bear]

And change it to got?

Gpt*

The filesystem for ventoy is exfat

@raw trail alright

I did it

So what now

[raw trail]

like this

[quaint bear]

Yeah

I already did it

And updated

[urban socket]

It won't change anything though

[quaint bear]

That's what I was thinking-

[urban socket]

I told you

[quaint bear]

I used to install arch like this everytime

[urban socket]

Here

[quaint bear]

Question

Wat is my root directory-

This all I know

[urban socket]

It would be best if you showed your lsblk -f instead of you reinterpreting its output

[raw trail]

why do you have 2 ext4 partitions?

[quaint bear]

Idk-

Oh yea

It's for the home directory

[raw trail]

well, for ext4, 120 gigs for root and rest for home, unless you want to use btrfs

try chrooting then ls /boot

[quaint bear]

There is nothing

I wrote the cammand

Nothing shows

[raw trail]

did you chroot?

[quaint bear]

So boot is missing-

[quaint bear]

Nvm wait

How to chroot btw-

[raw trail]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chroot

[quaint bear]

For the path to the new root

Wat should I do

[urban socket]

Which one is your root partition?

sda2 or sda3?

[raw trail]

fdisk -l

[urban socket]

or you're not sure?

[quaint bear]

It says here

Sda2 is Linux root

[urban socket]

Then mount them

[quaint bear]

Alr

[raw trail]

use fdisk as I wrote it

[quaint bear]

Done

I mounted everything

[raw trail]

did you chroot?

[urban socket]

arch-chroot /mnt

ls /boot

[raw trail]

idea is to chroot to see what's inside your partitions

then you can try to fix it, or redo the install

[raw trail]

boot is not empty

[quaint bear]

So..

[raw trail]

what bootloader you chose to install?

[quaint bear]

System boot thing

Not grub

[urban socket]

Did you reformat /boot when reinstalling Arch?

[raw trail]

@quaint bear

[quaint bear]

Yea?

[quaint bear]

I don't even know what is that 😭

I just went and reinstalled arch

I didn't not reformat anything

I might just give up

And just go back to manjaro

Anyone here 😭

@raw trail ?

[urban socket]

I'm eating tomato soup, sorry

[quaint bear]

I'll just manually partition it

[raw trail]

wdym

[raw trail]

don't

[raw trail]

sorry was afk

[raw trail]

are you gonna dual boot?

[quaint bear]

I already gave up

I don't think arch will work

[raw trail]

bruh~11

[quaint bear]

So

[raw trail]

then why it works here, across 3 laptops?

[quaint bear]

I could try one more time

[quaint bear]

Idk 😭

[raw trail]

PC I get, PC that runs arch fine

[quaint bear]

Can you help me?

[raw trail]

are you going to dual boot?

[quaint bear]

Or just tell me a beautiful arch distro I could use-

[quaint bear]

No

I just only want arch

[raw trail]

then configure your UEFI
disable secure boot, fast boot, and legacy CSM

[quaint bear]

Alright.

Secure boot is already turned off

[raw trail]

do the rest

[quaint bear]

Wat is legacy csm

WAIT

What if I add a boot option

In bios

There is grub

Cfg

@raw trail don't afk 😭

[raw trail]

for windows 7 and older

[quaint bear]

I was using manjaro

Soo

[raw trail]

just redo the entire install tbh

[quaint bear]

Already did it 10 times

Doesn't work

[raw trail]

tf is fso and this screen

[quaint bear]

Screen cooked-

[raw trail]

sorry but skill issue

[quaint bear]

.

[raw trail]

I mean what's on screen

[quaint bear]

Hax

For Roblox

[raw trail]

also, idk what kind of system is this

[quaint bear]

That's a dell

😭

[raw trail]

...

[quaint bear]

Just tell me a good looking arch distro

[raw trail]

@copper knoll

nope, still dead

[quaint bear]

. . .

[raw trail]

[quaint bear]

Are we deadass.

[raw trail]

arch is the best

just fix your skill issue

[quaint bear]

WAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO IT DOESNT WORK

[raw trail]

how? by configuring the uefi

Music

[quaint bear]

Wat do I configure in it

[raw trail]

disable CSM

[quaint bear]

...

[raw trail]

aka legacy boot support

btw, while on it, enable your board virtualization support, so you can run VMs

the more info you give about your UEFI, the better aka send shots of all your UEFI settings @quaint bear

[quaint bear]

Alr

I can't disable legacy boot btw

[raw trail]

why

some boards may require user to register an admin password to change the settings, then, user can clear the password

[raw trail]

just click it?

[quaint bear]

Nvm it worke

D

Wat else.

[raw trail]

look for fast boot

then disable it. this ensures that your system doesn't have issues with nvidia GPU (if any), wifi and bluetooth

[quaint bear]

Uh

Pov: no disable option

[raw trail]

try again

[quaint bear]

Wdym try again

I'll choose minimal

[raw trail]

well, the system is explaining what it does

[quaint bear]

Anyways

So wat now

[raw trail]

leave it on throught

[quaint bear]

Oh alr

[raw trail]

minimal will produce issues, as the system will setup itself for windows

[quaint bear]

What do I do now

Just to check

Wats the latest arch ver

[raw trail]

now, be sure to have the latest arch iso on your ventoy usb

[quaint bear]

I installed it yesterday

Using torrent

[raw trail]

then, ofc save your changes on your UEFI, plug your ventoy usb and boot off it

and let arch load

then, use cfdisk to wipe the entire drive

[quaint bear]

Alright

I selected to deleted every partition

Wat do I do to save-

I click write?

[raw trail]

how

[quaint bear]

Uh

[raw trail]

you need to know which one is your drive

[quaint bear]

I checked

[raw trail]

fdisk -l and lsblk -f will tell

[quaint bear]

There is sda: 167 gb

That's all

And the other is for the usb

So

I just do archinstall?

[raw trail]

I mean, my drive is /dev/nvme0n1 so you need to know yours

[quaint bear]

Alright soo

I'm checking the boot menu

There is only my usb

Which is a good thing

[raw trail]

then, you run cfdisk /path/to/target/drive

so you can delete all the partitions

[quaint bear]

They are already deleted.

There is only free space

Of 167 gb

I'll do arch install-

@raw trail

Do I do manual partitioning

Or best effort

[urban socket]

Do manual partitioning. The best effort thingy most likely reuses your existing EFI partition and there's no point in that

[quaint bear]

GANG

It WORKED

I just had to reformat for damn drive

😭

[urban socket]

I'm glad it works

[quaint bear]

Yay

[urban socket]

... solved

oh

Prefix the thread title with [SOLVED] if there's nothing else you need help with @quaint bear

[quaint bear]

Alr