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0x33

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Registered: 2015-03-10

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[SOLVED]Booting from UEFI USB drive results in blank screen

Hi, I am trying to install Arch from a bootable USB stick. I created an UEFI-bootable stick using USBWriter, but when I get to the menu where I am able to select from

Arch x86_64
UEFI Shell v1
UEFI Shell v2

I select Arch and it gives me a blank screen. Just nothing happens, even after half an hour of waiting.
So I thought it might be a bug in gummiboot. I chose UEFI Shell v1 and navigated into the thumbdrive and manually executed vmlinuz.efi, but then the shell just gets stuck and nothing happens.
I tried adding nomodeset, i915.modeset=0, nouveau.modeset=0 and parameters to the Arch entry in the boot menu, nothing worked.
I installed rEFInd and tried to boot the ARCH iso this way, but rEFInd gets stuck while booting vmlinuz aswell.
What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by 0x33 (2015-03-13 23:49:56)

TheSaint

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Re: [SOLVED]Booting from UEFI USB drive results in blank screen

What's your hardware ?

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

0x33

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Registered: 2015-03-10

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Re: [SOLVED]Booting from UEFI USB drive results in blank screen

AsRock P67 Extreme4 Rev B with UEFI v2.10
i5-2500K
GTX 560Ti

Pretty much standard hardware.
By the way, I tried booting the Arch ISO via rEFInd, no luck either. After selecting the entry, rEFInd just gets stuck. For fucks sake, I really don't want to install Arch the old BIOS/MBR way.
Is it correct that after writing the Arch ISO to the thumbdrive, the drive is shown as a 30MB partition to Windows? Doesn't seem right to me.

Edit:
Also tried kernel parameters pci=acpi and acpi=off.
An Ubuntu Live USB boots fine in UEFI mode, really surprised that Arch seems to be inferior to Ubuntu.

Update: Solved it by installing a beta EFI version from the AsRock website.

Last edited by 0x33 (2015-03-13 23:49:46)