[SOLVED] A bunch of issues with installing arch on my laptop

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 15:27:25

OK So I've installed Arch on my laptop now (following the Wiki to the letter) and I'm having a whole bunch of problems
1. I didn't realize my laptop provider enabled bitlocker so I did not disable it before installing Arch. I only realized this when os-prober didn't work because of it (namely when I mounted /dev/sdb3 the windows system one that's ~150 Gb as I resize it). I'm trying to restore the windows boot loader (I have windows 10 recovery/install media) but had no luck running bootrec /fixmbr and bootrec /fixboot from a GPT-partitioned recovery media so how can I restore the bootloader so I can get into windows and disable that (I can wipe it and reinstall but I prefer not to if I can avoid it)
2. I get this weird error when I start Arch and I have no idea what the cause is. I've attached a photo of it here:

https://ibb.co/R2twnjW
The image is a little blurry so here's a transcription:
Starting version 249-3-arch
ERROR: device 'UUID=ec2419d9-ffc8-42b7-bec9-194e95330242' not found. Skipping fsck.
mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=ec2419d9-ffc8-42b7-bec9-194e95330242.
You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ]#

What did I do wrong and how do I fix that?

Edit 1 3:36 PM Eastern:OK now I installed it and made sure Grub would work but now HP's having trouble acknowledging that this exists (I'm thinking I may pass time on the plane troubleshooting this thing it's so difficult)
https://ibb.co/txBrW3b

It's telling me that no OS is found which is nonsense but I'm trying to fix it now and frantically googling a 3F0 hard disk error.

Edit 2: I just ran a hardware test and it was able to test the storage and it passed so it's not that + this is a brand new laptop.
Edit 3: I need this laptop to be able to watch Youtube on the plane and I don't have Windows since I wiped the drive so I just installed Ubuntu on it (Interestingly it detected the Arch install HP claims doesn't exist and asked if I wanted to dual-boot) and I was able to boot into it just fine. I'm carrying my Arch USB with me for the trip though so I'm not down for the count. I did not think this would be this difficult. I guess the question now is what did the Ubuntu Installer do that I did not.

Last edited by PythonLinux (2021-07-25 01:19:05)

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 15:43:52

It looks like even Windows is having trouble because of Bitlocker. It can't identify the windows installation. See here for a photo of the screen
https://ibb.co/Lt5WcVh

I'm begining to think the easiest thing to do might just be to format the drive and reinstall both or just Arch.

leonavis · 2021-07-13 16:21:07

PythonLinux wrote:

It looks like even Windows is having trouble because of Bitlocker. It can't identify the windows installation. See here for a photo of the screen
https://ibb.co/Lt5WcVh
I'm begining to think the easiest thing to do might just be to format the drive and reinstall both or just Arch.

Yeah, I think that would be the easiest solution. Can you access your drive with a live-medium and back-up your needed documents from Windows?

In my laptop, HP-device, I had to delete the keys and disable Secure Boot in Bios for Arch live-medium to even boot.

Your error is kinda weird. "/new_root"? Wrong UUID? Are you sure you generated the fstab correctly? You could look that up by checking 'fdisk -l' and looking in '/etc/fstab' if the UUIDs match your system (especially /efi, /boot and/or /)

Last edited by leonavis (2021-07-13 16:32:34)

Zod · 2021-07-13 16:29:07

I couldn't tell if you had seen this

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#D … ng_systems

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 16:34:14

Yep I had Zod. leonavis I have a backup so I'll just reinstall (This is a brand new laptop and all I have on it is some coding projects I had backed up on Github with their latest revisions so I thankfully don't have to worry about that.)

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 16:36:52

I'll check the fstab after a zoom meeting.(Just for fun to see if I can figure out what went wrong. It'll be a good Linux learning experience.)

leonavis · 2021-07-13 16:42:59

PythonLinux wrote:

I'll check the fstab after a zoom meeting.(Just for fun to see if I can figure out what went wrong. It'll be a good Linux learning experience.)

That's the spirit! Should have /efi, / and swap (if you created it) at least.

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 16:54:10

Yep. I think I may be able to run diskmgmt from the USB drive. Haven't tried that before. Let me try that. (I've tried running regedit on my desktop using that when I had to fix something I messed up there so it can launch desktop apps and I was able to display my files)

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 17:39:53

I had the secure boot issue too. I fixed that when trying to get the USB to boot. (I should really learn how to sign these things for Secure Boot)

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 17:43:05

I'm done with Zoom so now back to Arch then Lunch

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 17:52:36

I'm able to access the windows partition data with the recovery disk. I can launch notepad just fine. I'm about to iniate a search for diskmgmt.msc

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 17:54:18

It says file not found when I run dir diskmgmt.msc /s /p. I tested it with notepad.exe and it worked just fine. Time to reinstall windows 10 I guess.

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 18:41:30

Now to make a new partition table etc. (I couldn't figure out how to set the uuid's to those listed in Fstab and I need this working for a flight tomorrow so I can't play with it for a long time until I figure it out)

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 18:45:53

Just nuked the partition table and set up a UEFI partition in advance with the Arch install media.

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 18:52:58

My Windows 10 Installer is an equal opportunity discriminator. It too doesn't recognize my touchpad by default. Good thing I'm adept at using the Tab key to navigate.

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 18:53:29

(The issue is Arch has a reason not to Windows not so much.)

V1del · 2021-07-13 18:58:04

Please don't bump your post every time a new thought occurs to you. If no one has posted in between use the edit button to append new information to a previous post if you feel it to be relevant.

If you created a new partition table then yes, the uuids will be different and need to be reassigned and the fstab and bootloader config relevantly adjusted, that's the point of uuids and not necessarily an underlying issue.

leonavis · 2021-07-13 18:59:09

PythonLinux wrote:

Now to make a new partition table etc. (I couldn't figure out how to set the uuid's to those listed in Fstab and I need this working for a flight tomorrow so I can't play with it for a long time until I figure it out)

Wrong way around. You should have picked the UUIDs you got from fdisk and put them into fstab.

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 19:02:13

Well the Windows 10 Installer's being stupid and not recognizing the hard drive (it works just fine on Arch USB so it's not that) so I'll just install Arch and worry about Microsoft's proprietary system later

PythonLinux · 2021-07-13 19:06:28

Thanks v1del, I didn't even see the edit button LOL. Will do that next time and act more civilized.

Leonavis, prob right. Oh well, it's a fait accompli at this point and now IK for next time.

V1del · 2021-07-13 19:10:45

One thing that has a chance to be a problem here, which is also what I suspect your issue in the first post to have possibly been, is that there can be a detection issue if your drive is configured for RAID instead of AHCI in your UEFI firmware which you maybe want to check and change.

Or if you want to keep that enabled (... not much reason to if you indeed wiped everything now) you'd need to mount your partitions arch-chroot into your system and add the vmd module to your MODULES=() array of your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf so that the specific line reads

MODULES=( vmd )

and run a

mkinitcpio -p linux

PythonLinux · 2021-07-23 22:46:37

I found the solution to my issues in v1del's comment https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267927 that for some reason I didn't try until just now. Thank you everyone for being very helpful and giving me max support in my first Arch Install.

WorMzy · 2021-07-24 10:32:02

Mod note: Merging.

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[SOLVED] A bunch of issues with installing arch on my laptop

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