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mtk089

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Registered: 2022-07-25

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[SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

Bear with me.  I am a brand new user.  I have read the manual and the installation instructions extensively.  I cannot seem to resolve this issue.

I am attempting my first Arch installation.  I cannot get the OS to boot.  I have followed the instructions carefully.  The only extra package I am adding is nano.

I am using a brand new NVME drive with UEFI.  At each step of the installation, I receive no error messages. 

After I install grub and reboot, the system boots directly into UEFI and the drive isn't showing as bootable. 

I've tried a fresh install 4-5 times with the same result.  I've never installed grub before so I figured I am screwing it up somehow.  I tried ArchTitus from ChrisTitusTech's git to attempt an automated installation as an experiment.  Same result.

To make sure there is nothing wrong with my system, I did a quick Manjaro install.  Boots up fine.

I'm at a lose.  I was hoping someone could throw me a suggestion.

Last edited by mtk089 (2022-07-26 12:11:20)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

So you're trying to use grub? How did you install it? How is your drive partitioned?

mtk089

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

My drive has two partitions:  a 500M for UEFI.  A second using ext4.  I didn't think a swap was needed in my use case.

I install grub with the following command:  grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/EFI --bootloader-id=GRUB

followed by:  grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

Let's define what you mean by extra packages - extra packages apart from a desktop/window manager (do you expect your system to boot into a display manager that is?), or extra as in not included in vanilla arch?

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2022-07-25 12:11:09)

mtk089

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

Here's a complete list of the packages I have installed in this process:  base linux linux-firmware nano grub efibootmgr mtools dosfstools os-prober networkmanager

Eventually I will be using xfce.  But I figured I would worry about that once I get Arch to boot properly.

Last edited by mtk089 (2022-07-25 12:52:09)

Adriik

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

What's the output of efibootmgr -v? Maybe you have the same problem I had, and you need to add manually a boot entry for grub.

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dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

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mtk089

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Registered: 2022-07-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

You guys are the best.  This did the trick.  I'm up and running!

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --removable

Last edited by mtk089 (2022-07-26 11:15:29)

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

Please remember to mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

mtk089

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh Install Will Not Boot

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