Arch Linux

MitchellSalad

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Registered: 2012-12-25

Posts: 14

Can't boot - just seeing a blinking underscore

I had ARCH linux working for quite a few months until recently, when it simply won't boot (all I see is a blinking underscore). I have a UEFI motherboard and I userEFInd. I can only assume this is due to the new version of rEFInd, with auto-scanning for kernel images and whatnot, but I've followed the UEFI installation guide & installation guides line by line, several times over, and I still can't get the OS to boot.

Anyone have any ideas? Thank you so much.

uname -m

x86_64

Partitions:

Device      Type               Name
/dev/sda1   Linux filesystem   root
/dev/sda2   Linux filesystem   boot
/dev/sda3   EFI System         efi
/dev/sda4   Linux filesystem   var
/dev/sda5   Linux filesystem   home

lsblk

Name   Type   Mountpoint
sda    disk
sda1   part   /
sda2   part   /boot
sda3   part   /boot/efi
sda4   part   /var
sda5   part   /home

Directory tree:

/boot/
   efi/
      EFI/
         arch/
            initramfs-arch-fallback.img
            initramfs-arch.img
            refind_linux.conf
            vmlinux-arch.efi
         refind/
            icons/
            refind.conf
            refind_x64.efi
   initramfs-linux-fallback.img
   initramfs-linux.img
   vmlinuz-linux
   refind.conf (copy of efi/EFI/refind/refind.conf)

/boot/efi/EFI/arch/refind_linux.conf:

"Default boot"          "root=PARTUUID=d368616d-a423-4511-88df-f2f645079bab ro rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap system.unit=graphical.target"
"Boot to terminal"      "root=PARTUUID=d368616d-a423-4511-88df-f2f645079bab ro rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap system.unit=multi-user.target"

ls -l /dev/disk/by-partuuid/

lrwxrwx 1 root root Jan 30 1:08 d368616d-a423-4511-88df-f2f645079bab -> ../../sda1

efibootmgr -v

BootOrder: 0018, ...
Boot0018* Arch Linux (rEFInd)   HD(3,0,0,74930800)File(EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi)

Last edited by MitchellSalad (2013-02-09 01:39:40)