[workarounded] no device found after installation

Box0 · 2013-04-11 23:24:05

I just installed arch on a dell inspiron R (came with windows 8, now erased from the hd) from a USB uefi image. Everything went well (so it seemed) but after rebooting i only get a "check media [failed]" and "no bootable device found". I alredy reinstalled everything the second time, just to be sure.

Since i got no errors of sort during the installation process I have no idea where to look. Is there something I can do from the uefi shell to see where the problem is?

Last edited by Box0 (2013-04-12 12:55:16)

jacobopantoja · 2013-04-12 04:50:34

Well, as the installation is no longer "automated", tell us what did you exactly to install Arch. It seems like a problem with the bootloader.

Box0 · 2013-04-12 07:04:00

I followed the beginner guide:

1) created 3 partition (efi,root,home)
2) installed the base system
3) installed efistub (installation went well, but it didn't boot)
3b) removed efistub and installed grub2 (installation went well, no errors, but it still didn't boot)

4) restarted the entire installation process, this time installing grub2 first, again no errors and no
boot.

In the bios setup (or whatever is called now) I have three options:
1) legacy boot mode
2) uefi boot without secure boot
3) uefi boot with secure boot.

I'm using the second.

Box0 · 2013-04-12 07:10:08

as a side question, what would I lose if I decide to convert my partition table to MSDOS?

Because I'm sick of this UEFI stuff, I don't understand why is there and I need a working machine asap.

Could It be dangerous to create a MSDOS partition table and then boot the machine in legacy mode?

edit: did that, works fine, screw uefi.

Last edited by Box0 (2013-04-12 12:35:02)

jacobopantoja · 2013-04-12 12:42:03

Box0 wrote:

edit: did that, works fine, screw uefi.

Then you should mark the post as solved.

BTW, GPT is superior in to MBR (MSDOS), even more with UEFI (because it benefits from the redundancy of the GPT info). You should try to get it working with GPT.

Box0 · 2013-04-12 12:53:32

could you please explain in which regards gpt is superior or point me to some source where the advantages of gpt are explained?

I'm not sure I "solved" the original issue, since I wanted it to work without having to fall back to MBR.

jacobopantoja · 2013-04-12 13:11:33

The wiki is full of information. As an example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GU … tion_Table

But I've never dealt with UEFI. I recommend you to fully read the articles for GPT, UEFI and Grub (or the bootloader you want to use).

Box0 · 2013-04-12 13:35:36

Thank you, I read the wikis about Grub, etc but missed this one. Problem is that when no error is prompted during install it is difficult to understand what is happening and why things don't work.

Anyway, I'm glad that at the moment the GPT advantages are not really so for my usecase (I only have two partitions, don't even need the extended one). I will take a look again when times come

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