[Solved][Issue] UEFI - Attempting to boot Arch on UEFI loops

caesarprime · 2023-10-24 08:26:44

I attempted to install Arch in UEFI mode. However, doing so everytime I do `grub-install` , it always lead me to the GRUB interface saying `Reboot Into Firmware Interface` option.

I followed multiple links and

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User:S … guide_UEFI

But still got stuck with this error.

Would be great if you can help me with some steps for troubleshooting.

My Motherboard: PRIME B760M-A WIFI

Last edited by caesarprime (2023-10-25 23:35:34)

V1del · 2023-10-24 12:02:04

grub-install on it's own only installs GRUB; did you also generate a config? In general, boot the iso, mount the partitions like you think they are correct, chroot in and post the outputs of

lsblk -f
mount
ls -l /boot
cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg
cat /etc/fstav
efibootmgr -uv

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

caesarprime · 2023-10-24 18:02:34

NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                                              
sda                                                
└─sda1                                             
sdb                                                
└─sdb1                                28.1G     3% /tmp/usb
nvme1n1                                            
├─nvme1n1p1                                        
├─nvme1n1p2                                        
└─nvme1n1p3                                        
nvme0n1                                            
├─nvme0n1p1                          991.8M     3% /boot
├─nvme0n1p2                                        [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p3                          394.2G     0% /

/dev/nvme0n1p3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=16292160k,nr_inodes=4073040,mode=755,inode64)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,inode64)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755,inode64)
tmp on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
run on /etc/resolv.conf type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755,inode64)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp/usb type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)

total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 24 13:38 EFI
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 24 13:40 System Volume Information

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/nvme0n1p3
UUID=731cacea-452a-4893-904f-3f4e4949b0a2	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p1
UUID=42A8-69D8      	/boot     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/nvme0n1p2
UUID=cd2f112e-7e26-49e6-9b14-0d1234797fa9	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

BootCurrent: 0005
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0004,0005,0006
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager	HD(1,GPT,808bdc27-5cf4-4c0d-b959-ee4dfaa697f9,0x800,0x200000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)䥗䑎坏S
      dp: 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 27 dc 8b 80 f4 5c 0d 4c b9 59 ee 4d fa a6 97 f9 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 00 80 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00
Boot0004* Hard Drive	BBS(HD,,0x0)
      dp: 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 47 4f 00 00 4e 4f ab 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 73 00 4b 00 49 00 4e 00 47 00 53 00 54 00 4f 00 4e 00 20 00 53 00 4e 00 56 00 32 00 53 00 35 00 30 00 30 00 47 00 00 00 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 01 01 06 00 00 06 01 01 06 00 00 00 03 17 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 26 b7 78 55 3a 8d 95 7f ff 04 00 01 04 36 00 ef 47 64 2d c9 3b a0 41 ac 19 4d 51 d0 1b 4c e6 35 00 30 00 30 00 32 00 36 00 42 00 37 00 37 00 38 00 35 00 35 00 33 00 41 00 38 00 44 00 39 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 00 00 42 4f 00 00 4e 4f ab 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 73 00 4b 00 49 00 4e 00 47 00 53 00 54 00 4f 00 4e 00 20 00 53 00 4e 00 56 00 32 00 53 00 35 00 30 00 30 00 47 00 00 00 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 01 01 06 00 00 1a 01 01 06 00 00 00 03 17 10 00 01 00 00 00 00 26 b7 68 60 4e d9 f5 7f ff 04 00 01 04 36 00 ef 47 64 2d c9 3b a0 41 ac 19 4d 51 d0 1b 4c e6 35 00 30 00 30 00 32 00 36 00 42 00 37 00 36 00 38 00 36 00 30 00 34 00 45 00 44 00 39 00 46 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 00 00 42 4f 00 00 4e 4f b5 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 6f 00 53 00 61 00 6d 00 73 00 75 00 6e 00 67 00 20 00 53 00 53 00 44 00 20 00 38 00 36 00 30 00 20 00 45 00 56 00 4f 00 20 00 32 00 35 00 30 00 47 00 42 00 00 00 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 01 01 06 00 00 17 03 12 0a 00 04 00 ff ff 00 00 7f ff 04 00 01 04 3e 00 ef 47 64 2d c9 3b a0 41 ac 19 4d 51 d0 1b 4c e6 33 00 53 00 39 00 59 00 58 00 4e 00 4b 00 30 00 36 00 43 00 35 00 38 00 39 00 31 00 20 00 58 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 20 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 00 00 42 4f
Boot0005* UEFI: ADATA USB Flash Drive 1100, Partition 1	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(17,0)/HD(1,GPT,e67d1ce9-7457-46fb-b46c-e172b2607d75,0x800,0x39cf7c0)
      dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 14 / 03 05 06 00 11 00 / 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 f7 9c 03 00 00 00 00 e9 1c 7d e6 57 74 fb 46 b4 6c e1 72 b2 60 7d 75 02 02 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 42 4f
Boot0006* USB	BBS(HD,,0x0)
      dp: 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 00 00 47 4f 00 00 4e 4f ab 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 63 00 41 00 44 00 41 00 54 00 41 00 20 00 55 00 53 00 42 00 20 00 46 00 6c 00 61 00 73 00 68 00 20 00 44 00 72 00 69 00 76 00 65 00 20 00 31 00 31 00 30 00 30 00 00 00 05 01 09 00 02 00 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 01 01 06 00 00 14 03 05 06 00 11 00 7f ff 04 00 01 04 36 00 ef 47 64 2d c9 3b a0 41 ac 19 4d 51 d0 1b 4c e6 32 00 37 00 31 00 31 00 32 00 30 00 34 00 30 00 37 00 30 00 32 00 36 00 30 00 30 00 31 00 31 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00 00 00 42 4f

I know that there is some img files missing on /boot, so I reattempted to set it up via refind instead of grub this time, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/REFInd , but it didnt work. I have installed Arch a few times earlier, but this time it had been pretty hectic.

V1del · 2023-10-24 19:08:04

Did you forget to install a kernel?

caesarprime · 2023-10-25 01:11:04

Not really thats the strange thing. I installed it via `pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware`

seth · 2023-10-25 07:28:29

The kernel tries to mount "" as root device - post your refind config(s)

Also please don't post images of text, post the text.
See the 1st link below on how to do that from the console.

caesarprime · 2023-10-25 17:18:02

Thanks Guys I got it resolved after reading the installation instructions again, and this time it worked except for the keys, which I know I would manage to get sorted.

V1del · 2023-10-25 18:01:01

Please give a quick summary of what was ultimately the solution, and mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

caesarprime · 2023-10-25 23:34:45

V1del wrote:

Please give a quick summary of what was ultimately the solution, and mark the topic as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

TBH I really don't know, what I did this time was carefully going through all the steps in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide with detailed links.

Then while installing the bootloader, I tried to make the process simpler, but setting just the esp to /boot (didn't fancy out with /efi or the possibility of dual boot with Windows record, which I am thinking of recovering later as this was installed in a whole different disk)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_b … oot_loader

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