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san2222

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Registered: 2023-07-03

Posts: 29

No Boot menu for Arch in BIOS

Hi,

After few updates to the BIOS were made I no longer have the option to boot Arch in either the UEFI firmware settings. Is there a way to bring it back possibly by installing grub again to the ESP partition? My current setup is as follows:

sda    8:0    0 119.2G  0 disk 
sda1   8:1    0   300M  0 part 
sda2   8:2    0 118.9G  0 part 
sdb    8:16   0  74.5G  0 disk 
sdb1   8:17   0   512M  0 part /boot/efi
sdb2   8:18   0    74G  0 part /
sdc    8:32   0 232.9G  0 disk 
sdc1   8:33   0   529M  0 part 
sdc2   8:34   0    99M  0 part 
sdc3   8:35   0    16M  0 part 
sdc4   8:36   0 209.3G  0 part 

where sda1 is the Arch ESP. Its contents are:

EFI/grub_uefi/grubx64.efi

efibootmgr -v:

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager	HD(2,GPT,03ca6a2a-9467-45f1-9fd4-77c2dc85b966,0x109000,0x31800)/File(\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...,................
Boot0001* ubuntu	HD(1,GPT,b5478587-185d-4597-8c84-6276cc30c91e,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\UBUNTU\SHIMX64.EFI)..BO

Thanks a lot

san2222

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Registered: 2023-07-03

Posts: 29

Re: No Boot menu for Arch in BIOS

Output of

lsblk -f && cat /etc/fstab && grep vmlinuz /boot/grub/grub.cfg && ls -R /boot/efi

is:

sda                                                                             
├─sda1 vfat   FAT32         14BC-BB61                                           
└─sda2 ext4   1.0           f8ba975f-9b05-45e9-b988-5eaac4f68f5c                
sdb                                                                             
├─sdb1 vfat   FAT32         6A17-2FAA                             504.9M     1% /boot/efi
└─sdb2 ext4   1.0           e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b   55.1G    19% /
sdc                                                                             
├─sdc1 ntfs                 2E70EBF470EBC127                                    
├─sdc2 vfat   FAT32         869C-44E2                                           
├─sdc3                                                                          
└─sdc4 ntfs         Windows D0789D53789D38E4                                    
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6A17-2FAA  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/swapfile                                 none            swap    sw              0       0
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-79-generic root=UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b ro  quiet splash 
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-79-generic root=UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b ro  quiet splash 
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-79-generic root=UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b ro recovery nomodeset dis_ucode_ldr 
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-76-generic root=UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b ro  quiet splash 
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-5.15.0-76-generic root=UUID=e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b ro recovery nomodeset dis_ucode_ldr 
ls: cannot open directory '/boot/efi': Permission denied

Just wondering why does it say /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation when it is actually just efi? Am i reading something wrong here?

san2222

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Registered: 2023-07-03

Posts: 29

Re: No Boot menu for Arch in BIOS

I chainloaded Arch to Mint's grub and it helped me boot into Arch. The entry is as follows:

menuentry "ARCH" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_gpt
search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid 14BC-BB61
chainloader /EFI/grub_uefi/grubx64.efi
}

I guess this a temporary fix as the disk (sda) is not in the boot list in UEFI although it shows as a storage device .

Docbroke

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From: India

Registered: 2015-06-13

Posts: 1,438

Re: No Boot menu for Arch in BIOS

You seem to have multiple "efi" partitions. Have you looked in bios order of boot preferences?

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