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Hello there,
I have been trying to install Arch for the past couple of days with no luck. I go through the entire installation process (which at this point I have completely memorized and understand every step) and I do not see the boot partition on my bios boot menu.
My setup:
1 SSD with Windows 10 on (after checking on settings it boots in legacy bios)
1 HDD which I am trying to install Arch on.
Asus Prime B-350 Plus Mobo (it is UEFI right?)
I partition my HDD as follows:
1. EFI filesystem with 100M >>> /boot/efi
2. Linux filesystem with 500M >>> /boot
3. Luks with LVM
3a. 10GB >>> /
3b. +100%free >>> /home
I went through the motherboard setting and turned off things like Fast Boot and Secure Boot to test if it made a different but it did not.
Any one could possibly tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I should try next?
Thank you.
Last edited by Xsais (2017-05-29 14:56:46)
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BIOS != UEFI See https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/2 … work-then/
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Thanks for the link, very interesting read. I always used the word BIOS as the 'motherboard's software.' I.e. the software you choose your boot drive from. But I get it now.
What is confusing me is that I checked /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and it wasn't empty. According to the installation guide if it is empty I should boot in BIOS.
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If windows is booting using bios I would recommend using bios for arch as well unless you intended to using the firmware's boot selection menu to select boot device on every boot.
Having said that which bootloader/bootmanager are you trying to use with arch?
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Well I always just go into the motherboards firmware to choose boot device anyway.
I have been trying to use GRUB mainly.
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So what commands did you use to install and configure grub? What was the outputs of those commands. What is now present on /boot and /boot/efi? see smart questions
Additionally what is the output of `efibootmgr`
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Alright to I figure it out and got my Arch running.
Thanks for the clarification guys.
It boots in legacy now instead, it works.
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