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jpaulodefarias

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Registered: 2018-04-05

Posts: 1

Arch boot stuck at GRUB and blinking underscore

Hello,

Problem: When starting my computer, Arch boot stop at GRUB. There is no error messages or logs, just showing "GRUB" followed by a blinking underscore in the upper left corner.
Before this I installed AMD GPU drivers and updated the system packages with "pacman -Syu". Everything was working well until I restart the system.
Tried pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and other keys but it does nothing, though Ctrl-Alt-Del does reboot.

Any ideas?

Last edited by jpaulodefarias (2018-04-05 04:08:44)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Arch boot stuck at GRUB and blinking underscore

How do you install grub? (UEFI/ESP or BIOS?)
Do you expect to get a grub menu?

For a wild guess, I'd say you screwed up your boot partition during the last update. Boot into a live system (usb key, install iso will do) and inspect the contents of that partition. Also ensure it matches the UUID passed to grub (the entry in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg "search" lines should match the UUID in the relevant "lsblk -f" output)

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