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zevski

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[Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

Hello, this is not my first Arch Linux installation, but it is my first time posting to the forums. I just completed my second attempt at installing Arch on a brand-new Toshiba Satellite C55. After the installation completes and I reboot, instead of Grub I get a blank screen with this message:

Reboot and select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key

I thought maybe I made a mistake, so I started over and completed a second installation, only to get the same message. I am not sure how to proceed. I tried booting from a xubuntu live usb I had lying around, and it doesn't recognize that either, although it does recognize my Arch live usb.

Any ideas?

Last edited by zevski (2015-04-29 03:05:31)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

Did you remember to reset the boot entry priority in your BIOS/UEFI?

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zevski

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Re: [Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

Yes, I changed the boot priority to boot from HDD, but still got the error.

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

Then please post details of you setup: partitioning, grub configs, etc...

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zevski

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Re: [Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

Ok, sorry, I wasn't sure what information would be relevant. My gpt partition setup is as follows:

512 Mb boot partition, Fat32
20 Gb root partition, ext3
4 Gb swap, linux swap
home partition to 100%, ext3

Not sure if this is what you meant. As far as grub configs, I'm not sure what to provide. I installed grub and efibootmgr, then ran:

$ grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck

and

$ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

I did not change the configuration from the defaults.

zevski

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Re: [Solved]Unbootable fresh intall - reboot and select proper boot device

UPDATE: I erased the entire disk with

sgdisk -Z

and reinstalled again, this time creating only a boot partition and a root partition for the rest . Installed gummiboot instead of GRUB.  This time it worked, so I know that at least I did not brick my machine.

I don't know if erasing the disk did the trick (since this machine had previously had Windows 8 on it, and may have had something "leftover"), or if I had made a mistake during the partition or when mounting the partitions (I noticed an error in my fstab the third time around, so I started over ,again, and the fourth time it worked).

Just thought I would post this in case any other newbies run into the same issue.