[SOLVED] Fresh Install, won't boot past grub

ryukiri · 2014-06-27 22:49:47

I did a fresh install of Arch (GPT partitioning table) with a 8 GB root directory, 138 GB home directory, 4 GB swap, and a 1007 KB bios boot partition. Everything went well, I got through the installation with no problems, but when I rebooted the computer. It showed this after the grub menu: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-UM-3 … 2014-06-22

So now my question is, was I supposed to do anything extra during the installation process? Or is this a hardware problem? Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, and Zorin OS works fine so I'm assuming I need to do something extra during installation...

Last edited by ryukiri (2014-07-03 21:44:44)

jwm-art · 2014-06-28 14:30:57

Nice picture, have you thought about putting it in a glitch art exhibition?

jasonwryan · 2014-06-28 19:11:19

jwm-art: if you don't have anything constructive to add, refrain from posting...

czubek · 2014-06-30 17:16:44

The fact your computer works on the other operating systems suggests your hardware is ok. I had many false starts with my first Arch install. It really helped me to have another computer near to refer to the beginner's guide and other associated wikis. One must follow it meticulously.

ugjka · 2014-06-30 17:22:12

Is this base install without graphics drivers, xorg and de

ryukiri · 2014-06-30 20:30:34

ugjka wrote:

Is this base install without graphics drivers, xorg and de

Yes, I installed nothing other than what the beginner's guide said to do.

ryukiri · 2014-06-30 20:31:26

czubek wrote:

The fact your computer works on the other operating systems suggests your hardware is ok. I had many false starts with my first Arch install. It really helped me to have another computer near to refer to the beginner's guide and other associated wikis. One must follow it meticulously.

Yeah thats what I did. I had my tablet on the guides and on the wiki as i was installing Arch. The first time i thought i did something wrong so i tried again but got the same result both times...

czubek · 2014-06-30 21:11:37

Regretably, it will require someone with more knowledge than I to solve. Since the problem appears to be graphical in nature my only suggested last resort is to refer to the "Troubleshooting boot problems" in the beginners guide as it makes reference to the intel graphics card as a source of the problem.

ugjka · 2014-07-02 15:33:14

I think this is related https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183504

For the fresh installation the workaround could be installing linux-lts kernel.

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ryukiri · 2014-07-03 01:16:03

ugjka wrote:

I think this is related https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183504
For the fresh installation the workaround could be installing linux-lts kernel.

Oh thanks! How would I download and install that?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/En … ts_package

That only tells me how to make it a boot option...I assume I need to be chrooted from the install CD to do this.

Trilby · 2014-07-03 01:57:26

ryukiri wrote:

That only tells me how to make it a boot option...I assume I need to be chrooted from the install CD to do this.

You can do it one of two ways: boot the install cd/usb, mount all the partitions as in the original installation process, then chroot. From there you can just use pacman to install packages as it it were a normal system: `pacman -S linux-lts`.

There is, however, no need for the chroot. The alternative, and somewhat simpler, approach would be to boot the install media and mount the partitions as above, then use the pacstrap tool just like you did when installing the 'base' group: `pacstrap -i /mnt linux-lts`.

EDIT: please see the post below. I don't use grub so I didn't think about those steps. The second option here is only very slightly simpler, but given the info below, I'd agree the first would be better.

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ugjka · 2014-07-03 08:21:32

Trilby wrote:

ryukiri wrote:
That only tells me how to make it a boot option...I assume I need to be chrooted from the install CD to do this.
You can do it one of two ways: boot the install cd/usb, mount all the partitions as in the original installation process, then chroot. From there you can just use pacman to install packages as it it were a normal system: `pacman -S linux-lts`.
There is, however, no need for the chroot. The alternative, and somewhat simpler, approach would be to boot the install media and mount the partitions as above, then use the pacstrap tool just like you did when installing the 'base' group: `pacstrap -i /mnt linux-lts`.

I think it is safer to arch-chroot because you still need to be chrooted to generate your grub.cfg "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg"

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ryukiri · 2014-07-03 21:44:10

@Trilby and @ugjka

Thank you so much!! It boots now! I did it using the chroot and then regenerated the grub.cfg

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[SOLVED] Fresh Install, won't boot past grub

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