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carcinoGeneticist

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Registered: 2026-07-14

Posts: 12

Hi what can i do

I mistyped

grub-install --target=x86-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB 

as

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

And so my laptop can't boot arch linux what can i do?? I really don't want to reinstall Arch Linux

Last edited by carcinoGeneticist (2026-08-08 18:41:51)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,550

Re: Hi what can i do

Boot the install iso, mount the installed system into /mnt and the boot partition into /mnt/boot, arch-chroot into the system and fix the bootloader installation.

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