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psurrena

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Registered: 2018-07-19

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Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

Hello.

I"m running an Intel Nuc, and I installed Windows 10 on a second drive BUT when I went to go select my Arch disk to boot off of, I received the PXE-E61 error and now that drive won't boot at all.

Do I have to reinstall Arch? Or is there some way to save myself here?

Last edited by psurrena (2018-07-22 21:32:43)

headkase

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

First of all, PXE-E61 refers to a network boot problem.  It is likely happening to you because the primary boot, local storage, is failing so it tries PXE next.  You are likely UEFI as that is a modern unit, the NUC, so check out the UEFI Page in the wiki.  Just give it a read over to familiarize yourself with UEFI.  What could have happened is that the NUC has onboard firmware settings that tell it which GPT partition to boot from and installing Windows overwrote that configuration data.  That wouldn't be surprising, Windows always makes the assumption it is the only OS.  If that is the case then there are various utilities to reconstruct the firmware boot information.  Read the UEFI page to get familiar with the overall process.

psurrena

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

Thank you for the reply. I'm short on time, so if I wipe everything out and reinstall, would that fix the issue ( I don't want to do this ) or is this a hardware issue now?
Also, if I plug back in the drive with the Windows 10 install, wi'll I find myself dealing with the same thing?

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

Please edit your title and change it to one that actually reflects your issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

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loqs

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

Thank you for the reply. I'm short on time, so if I wipe everything out and reinstall, would that fix the issue ( I don't want to do this ) or is this a hardware issue now?

Not enough information to provide an informed response.
Edit:
The status of the EFI variables is unknown.  The status of both storage devices is unknown.  The status of the bootloader on the arch storage device is unknown.

Last edited by loqs (2018-07-22 21:40:31)

psurrena

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

The bootloader is bootctl

What info can I give for the EFI and storage devices?

loqs

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Re: Windows 10 install broke UEFI and I cannot boot into Arch

From the live media check the output of `efibootmgr` for entries doe Windows and systemd-boot.