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#1 2017-12-13 06:05:01
- AndrewK
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Newly installed system won't boot. Grub; Inspiron 11-3162
I have written my adventure with the Inspiron on the Inatallation Guide/Wiki (talk page) for this model here. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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#2 2017-12-13 06:14:17
- jasonwryan
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Re: Newly installed system won't boot. Grub; Inspiron 11-3162
Talk pages on the wiki are to discuss documentation, not for support requests.
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#3 2017-12-14 08:38:33
- AndrewK
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Re: Newly installed system won't boot. Grub; Inspiron 11-3162
This is the stuff you would have read if you had followed the link "here" in the original post:
Grub fails
I followed the instructions on this page and the Installation Guide (pretty) faithfully. Things went fairly smoothly.
The first wrinkle was that I couldn't turn off the Legacy Option Rom in BIOS. Once I told it that I was doing a Legacy boot, it forced enable. BIOS version says 2.2.0
When I went to install Grub, I got some errors. I finally decided that Grub neede 2 partitions. On the Grub page it tells me that 1MB will be sufficient for the partition type BIOS Boot (4), but when I install Grub, the boot directory grows to 11MB -- so evidently, the 2 things are not the same.
Once I have them both created, both grub-install and grub-mkconfig run without error. However, the machine will not boot. It says "No bootable devices" I am supposed to be partitioning and booting from mmcblk0 - yes? Anyhow, I don't see how to proceed, except to start over and try to get EFI boot to work.
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#4 2017-12-14 10:01:39
- lo1
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Re: Newly installed system won't boot. Grub; Inspiron 11-3162
You should not have more than a boot partition (for a simple installation).
Anyway, in the Dell Inspiron 3000 wiki page it's written that you should disable the Load Legacy option, since it's unsupported: find out why you could not disable it and start over with the grub installation.
If by any chance your laptop model differs from the instructions from the wiki, probably your Arch ISO is booting in EFI mode: you need to press the key to choose the boot option (e.g. F9 for my laptop) before booting the install media, and choose the one without the EFI option.
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