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Trevor_B

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[Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Hello

I'm getting ready for a new Installion next year on a new PC, so I'm trying out the Installer rather than running a manual installion again

I've tried the installion three times now, everything seems to go well, I have no errors anywhere

But when booting the PC the SSD is not shown in the Bios

I have tried the systemd and grub choices but both to no avail, both are not seen in the bios

When I re-boot into my existing setup I can see/mount the other SSD, see the Gparted screenshot, everything looks OK,  I'm fairly sur the Grub or Systemd boot is not being installed or I'm doing somthing wrong but what ?

Here are some Screen Shots if anyone can point me in the right direction

https://imgbox.com/XePI4YFV
https://imgbox.com/43vKCfmb
https://imgbox.com/djncAEPH

Thanks

Last edited by Trevor_B (2025-02-01 18:51:40)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Have you disabled SecureBoot?

Please share the archinstall log.

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Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

I don't have secure boot (Old motherboard ) or if I do it's disabled as I can boot my other SSD with Arch

How to get and copy / move the log as I only have the usb running while trying to install ?

seth

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

cat /path/to/file | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

or copy it to any usb-key and walk it somewhere else.

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Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

I tried three more times , Grub and sytemd also redownlaoded the ISO just incase

everytime no error messages

The SSD is not seen in the Bios. for info I had installed many moons ago a manuel install on this SSD which booted perfectly

For info At the end of the install it ask if I want to Chroot, I said no

Here are the logs
https://0x0.st/8s6Y.json
https://0x0.st/8s6E.txt

Last edited by Trevor_B (2024-12-30 17:28:42)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Are there GRUB and/or systemd-boot files present on the ESP (/dev/sda1)?

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Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

If I mount the SSD after booting into normal my Arch system

The /run/media/trevor/97cc59ed-c527-4520-868a-b6dab10387c3/boot/

is completely empty

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Well that would explain the problem then.

Were the files posted from /var/log/archinstall? I seem to remember that file being more than a configuration outline but I could be wrong.

Anyway, according to your links /dev/sda1 should be mounted under /boot/ so check /etc/fstab on the root partition to be sure.

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Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

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

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda2
UUID=97cc59ed-c527-4520-868a-b6dab10387c3    /             ext4          rw,relatime    0 1

# /dev/sda1
UUID=3940-3706          /boot         vfat          rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro    0 2

I could probably fix it manually

But it was only a test trying ArchInstaller before I receive my new PC and it looks like it could be a bug in the installer itself

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Mounting the ESP under /boot/ is silly anyway. Perhaps mention that in the bug report. I see _many_ journals with warnings about FAT corruption on the /boot/ partition and we see _many_ threads about un-mounted /boot/ partitions during upgrades, presumably because of the corruption.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2025-01-01 11:14:18)

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Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

Hello

This is still not solved, even tried the latest 3.0.2 release

I have managed to get around it by adding at the end of the install and before rebooting
sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --loader '\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi' --label "Linux Boot Manager" --unicode

With this, it boots just lovely.

I've added this problem to Github though have had no news. I see that there are others with the same problem as me

This weekend I'm building my new PC with a totally different MB and very recent, against my old MB almost ten years old, though I doubt that it's due to that, will update when built

Trevor_B

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Re: [Solved] After Installion SSD not seen

I have now just installed a new motherboard and the Arch Installer works fine all by itself, so this bug seems to be linked to the MB or it's Bios

Although not solved, I'm going to indicate solved

Hopefully this will help finding the bug for others