[SOLVED] Reinstalled Win 10, Can't find arch now

yayo_dinero · 2024-12-26 11:25:28

Data is not lost, I can boot into arch iso and re-mount root to p5, home to p6 and arch efi partition to p3. After mounting I chroot and run the grub commands,

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUBBYWUBBY

Then make the cfg

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

and a sanity check by running

efibootmgr

tells me

BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001
Boot0000* USB HDD: USB DISK 2.0 (this is the arch ISO bootable usb)
Boot0001* GRUBBYWUBBY    HD(3,GPT,afab1dd3-d435-4253-9c98-b5983b74005b,0xc20b000,0x1000000)/\EFI\GRUBBYWUBBY\grubx64.efi

Then I exit, run

umount -R /mnt

and a

shutdown now

. Unplug the bootable USB and start the laptop back up just to see "No Bootable Devices"
Worth noting, I only reinstalled windows to buy a calling card in the shop... Thanks windows. Also, yes secure boot is turned back off and my laptop does not have fast boot option in bios

Last edited by yayo_dinero (2024-12-27 12:10:17)

cryptearth · 2024-12-26 11:29:32

the fast boot option is NOT an option to be set in the uefi setup but within the windows power management - see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation

yayo_dinero · 2024-12-26 11:36:03

Then it is useless information as windows is no longer on my laptop

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-12-26 12:30:32

Use the --removable option for the grub-install command and make sure there is no Microsoft directory under /EFI/ on the EFI system partition.

yayo_dinero · 2024-12-26 12:54:10

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Use the --removable option ... no Microsoft directory...

Windows 10 is uninstalled as I have no more need for it, this fails to show as an entry after running

efibootmgr

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-12-26 13:14:29

Have you checked the EFI system partition to ensure the Windows EFI loader is deleted?

yayo_dinero · 2024-12-26 15:24:15

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Have you checked the EFI system partition to ensure the Windows EFI loader is deleted?

yes, there is only 3 partitions being listed when running 'lsblk'

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-12-26 15:26:35

That doesn't answer my question.

Show me how you determined the absence of bootmgfw.efi on the EFI system partition. Thanks.

cryptearth · 2024-12-26 15:58:39

yayo_dinero wrote:

there is only 3 partitions being listed when running 'lsblk'

please post output of

lsblk -f -o +PARTTYPE

yayo_dinero · 2024-12-27 12:09:44

Got it fixed, thanks guys for the help. So what end up happening was I decided to just recreate the efi partition, format and mount but then when I would chroot /mnt, grub-install and grub-mkconfig, I would get zero errors. efibootmgr tells me the entry has been added and everything is good to go. exit, umount -R /mnt and shutdown, unplug and reboot. But every single time I would get a screen of "No bootable devices" and no boot entries in the BIOS. I was so frustrated and confused. Then I tried to rerun some of the command after the formatting part of the installation, and

mkinicpio -P

I would get an error about there being no linux image, strange so I tried

pacman -S linux linux-firmware

for a sanity check and lo and behold, these had --reinstalling tags at the end. What does it mean there is no linux img? endend up just

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware base-devel

but what was weird was something came through for the linux-firmware, and downloaded and installed everything. did the rest of the grub stuff and rebooted and again got nothing. I was able to go into bios and create a symlink to the .efi file, (I wasn't able to before) and it works now. But only after forcefeeding it the answer. If someone could shed some light that would be awesome. I'm riding the high of getting this working for right now.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2024-12-27 13:51:45

yayo_dinero wrote:

I was able to go into bios and create a symlink to the .efi file

That doesn't make much sense. The FAT filesystem doesn't support symlinks

Anyway I won't be back, it's really irritating when OPs ignore questions. Bye!

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[SOLVED] Reinstalled Win 10, Can't find arch now

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