Arch Linux

twilighttony

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 8

Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

Hello everyone, earlier this year I had Arch Linux installed on my computer and was testing everything out and it worked well, and a few months after that I accidentally broke my grub config file and grub refused to boot so I had a fallback bootloader set up to select in my boot options that let my boot into arch while i tried to restore grub to no success. Then a week after, I noticed my whole /bin/bash wouldn't even boot at all, saying something along the lines of it couldn't start, then just sending me back to the command line at boot and i had to log back in just to see it happen again. At that point I lost interest in Linux and went back to the plague called Windows but 2 months ago I wanted to come back to linux so I tried to reinstall arch Linux but either this would happen

 :: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201607' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201607 ...
[    10.479055] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[    10.479196] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201607' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
        Falling back to interactive prompt
        You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
[rootfs  ]# 

and another error that i can't replicate because i don't have the june installation media anymore but it would tell me cpu#1 would get stuck after a few lines after initiating the backlight or something and it would keep producing the same error code line after line until you turned off the computer. I don't know why I am not destined to run vanilla Arch on this pos computer until i save up more money to buy a way more powerful custom computer but right now i am running linux mint while typing this up and I have tried to run Manjaro on it and it boots up just fine so i really don't know why the arch intallation disk wont work.

sorry for the really long post but this is so frustrating to me as i really love arch linux and I just want to install Linux the Arch way again.. Please, anybody who can help, please do. I've been trying for a few months to run it again.

twilighttony

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 8

Re: Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

An update to my struggle with arch. I had to write my usb as an image through the mint image writer and it booted fine. I didn't have to do that with any other distro but it fully booted to the arch login so thanks for letting me write this out. I will post another update after I finish the reinstall.

twilighttony

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 8

Re: Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

Hi guys, I am back again with my final report of the night, I got as far in the installation that almost everything is set up, the major set back now for me is the grub UEFI set up script doesn't seem to tell the default linux loader that I have grub for arch, i followed the guide for grub2 on uefi but it never boots it, I am stuck again. Can anyone help me?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

I can't help with uefi booting,but a better more descriptive title has a bigger chance of attracting the people that can.

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ewaller

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Re: Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

Which bootloader are you trying to use?

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twilighttony

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Registered: 2015-11-23

Posts: 8

Re: Arch Linux Installation media problems with my computer

I was trying to use the grub bootloader. I had my esp partition set up and mounted to /boot/EFI and even tried to just mount it at /boot and the commands on the grub arch wiki page wouldn't work and I couldn't figure out why this was the case. So I decided to go ahead and use systemd boot and added my boot entry and it worked just fine comparing to grub2 efi.