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Hi all
I have recently installed arch 64 on Herself's machine <rant basis="probably ignorance"> taking a weekend instead of a coupla hours like with /arch/setup</rant>.
I had a lot of issues with uefi and in the end created partitions for /boot (500M) and /boot/efi (500M) (in addition to / (50G) and /home (rest of 320G disk)). I also had to mess with CSM(?) in the system's configuration to make everything uefi compatible.
Following a fail, a new motherboard* has been installed, and now when booting I now only get to a blank screen with a flashing cursor.
The first thing I did was try to follow the steps of the Guide again (except the destructive bits like partitioning). I can boot from the CD, and I can mount the disk and arch-chroot into it.
Network access is fine, as I am able to do the `pacman -Syu` download (though there were problems when trying to do a full install). Running `pacman -Sy linux linux-headers` worked correctly, but the reboot took me to the blank screen with flashing cursor.
I tried `mkinitcpio -p linux` but this also booted to the same blank screen with flashing cursor.
I tried running `efibootmgr`, both with the `-c -g -d /dev ...` parameters as directed in the Beginner's Guide, and with -v as suggested in other forum questions, but this resulted in a fatal error about the procfs and another file system not being available.
Following instructions related to that error, I exited chroot and ran `modprobe efivars`. There was no success or error message. I chrooted in again and ran the efibootmgr again, but got the same fatal result.
So I'm a bit stuck. Can someone see anything I'm not doing right, or perhaps suggest the steps I should follow to try to reinstall/reconfigure uefi correctly, preferably without the need to do the partitioning again?
* The new m/board is a Asus p8h77-m
CPU: Intel G630 2.7Ghz
8GB ram
Last edited by mcalex (2013-05-08 15:58:45)
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OK. Managed to work this out.
Had to do some serious mucking around with the CSM stuff in the uefi boot thing - finally convinced it that both the CD and HDD were uefi bootable ... or something, and it now boots. (sorta, I seem to have lost the network, but that's a minor issue).
Thanks for the help. :-)
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