Reboot when booting USB stick in UEFI mode

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 15:04:55

Hi

I created a boot-stick with dd and if I boot it in UEFI mode, I can see the menu where I can choose if I want to boot Arch, launch the EFI shell, and so on. If I select the first entry (or just wait a few seconds), the screen goes dark, and after a second or two, my PC reboots. It's a bit confusing, it's able to boot to the boot menu but not further. It's also not hanging, it's rebooting right away. Booting in legacy mode works fine. What could be the problem?

alxndr13 · 2016-09-23 15:26:09

Is there any message in the bottom left corner?
Maybe check your bios settings..

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 15:28:04

I don't see a message. I've also checked that SecureBoot and FastBoot are disabled.

yousuc · 2016-09-23 15:50:01

What video card setup do you have?

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 15:51:27

I have a GTX 1060. I would understand if the screen would just be blank, that could be the video card, but why would it reboot?

yousuc · 2016-09-23 15:55:15

Ok, that's what I thought. When you boot off the USB stick and you get the options menu, hit 'E' to edit options and append 'nomodeset' and then 'F10' to boot.

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 16:03:11

I tried that, but it didn't change anything. (I had to press Enter instead of F10 to boot though, pressing F10 had no effect)

yousuc · 2016-09-23 16:22:03

Did you append it after the initrd=\arch\boot\x86_64\archiso.img?

should look like ... initrd=\arch\boot\x86_64\archiso.img nomodeset archisobasedir=arch ...

So if that doesn't work. Then it could be a setting in your BIOS that is conflicting and causing the reboot.

But 'nomodeset', at least for me is required with my 1070FE and my prior 970 when installing Arch.

And oh yeah pressing 'enter' was correct and not F10...still on my first cup of coffee

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 16:29:55

Yes, that's where I inserted it. Nothing. What BIOS settings could cause that?

yousuc · 2016-09-23 16:53:53

Ok here are just a few things to look for/try.

My BIOS settings for Asus Motherboard:

Under Trusted Computing:
Security Device Support: Disabled

Under Advanced/Platform Misc Configuration:
PCI Express Native Power Management: Disabled
DMI Link ASPM Control: Disabled
ASPM: Disabled
DMI Link ASPM Control: Disabled
PEG - ASPM: Disabled

Under SATA Configuration:
Make sure SATA mode is AHCI and not RAID

Under USB Configuration:
Legacy Support: Auto
XHCI Hand-Off: Disabled

Under Boot\CSM:
Launch CSM: Auto

Under Boot\Secure Boot:
Secure Boot state: Disabled
OS Type: Other OS

Shadowigor · 2016-09-23 17:09:52

Thanks. I think the settings should be ok, but I'll double check tomorrow. The strange thing is, that the legacy mode works flawlessly. Wouldn't that be affected too?

yousuc · 2016-09-23 17:21:18

Hard to say unless someone wants to chime in, I have not tried legacy mode.

My biggest issue I had with the BIOS, was the ASPM configuration. If any of it was enabled, text would fly across the screen so fast and unreadable, all the fans would max spin and the system would freeze up.

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Reboot when booting USB stick in UEFI mode

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