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bstard

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Registered: 2016-10-14

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stuck on grub screen after first install

ok I know follow the wiki etc. and please believe me I did...

so I tried to install arch in uefi config on encrypted boot and root using grub
there is an esp, I was able to install everything according to the wiki including grub so I thought lets give it a try and boot up without the stick in it to see if I can get in to arch...

well that's when "disaster" struck...

I was greated with welcome to grub and please type your passphrase so I did and next it just shows me the mildly annoying

grub>

after that I thought I've messed up grub.cfg or something else so I looked around grub.d &.cfg but no menu entries for my beloved arch..
but as I saw in the wiki I thought these entries would be made from grub-mkconfig......

I'm really lost here and hope you guys are willing to help?

thanks in advance
sebastian

NoSuck

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Registered: 2015-03-04

Posts: 157

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

If grub asks for your passphrase, you have properly encrypted the drive.  That's good.

I would begin by booting from install media, mounting the encrypted drive manually with cryptsetup, and checking boot flags with parted (or gptfdisk).  What boot flags are set on the drive?

# Example UEFI grub installation procedure:
sudoedit /etc/default/grub
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=sda1 --bootloader-id=grub --recheck

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bstard

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Registered: 2016-10-14

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

thx a lot!
I was trying deleting and reinstalling the whole grub thing...but this messed up my setup so that I couldn't get grub to work again.
I'm now reinstalling the whole system and will get back at you again!
thx again!!!

bstard

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Registered: 2016-10-14

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

ok flags are set on my esp for boot and esp I will change boot to the encrypted boot disk...

I changed esp to esp and encrypted boot to boot but now they both have boot, esp flags is that alright?

Last edited by bstard (2016-10-15 14:05:31)

bstard

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Registered: 2016-10-14

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

aight now I'm getting past grub and after putting in all the passphrases I'm getting to [OK] started forward password requests to wall and the it says:
systemd[1]: failed to start journal service

started a search on here but this guy got stuck on dbus...but with me its just the journal service...if I leave the laptop unattended like I did to get some groceries it runs in to thermal threshold so there is something going on in the background.
any help is gratefully appreciated
thx

NoSuck

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Registered: 2015-03-04

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

I changed esp to esp and encrypted boot to boot but now they both have boot, esp flags is that alright?

Probably not.  There should only be one boot/esp disk.

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rdeckard

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Registered: 2015-01-28

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Re: stuck on grub screen after first install

From a live disk, what is the output of:

# fdisk -l

Unlock and mount all of your partitions on a live disk (like you are doing an install). Then show us the output of:

# lsblk -f

Also, what are the contents of /etc/default/grub on the new system?

Last edited by rdeckard (2016-10-16 01:33:44)