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I finished installing Arch for the first time following the Installation guide. After rebooting and removing the usb image, the computer said to insert a boot drive.(paraphrased, I forget exactly what it said).
Here is the output of fdisk -l: https://ptpb.pw/BpxI
The output of parted print: https://ptpb.pw/hdVT
The output of ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars: https://ptpb.pw/BRlK
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Have you specified the correct boot order in the firmware? How are you managing/loading the boot process?
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I have the HD/SSD first in the boot order. I also have it set to UEFI Boot
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Which bootloader are using? You will need to perform extra steps regardless of which bootloader you chose. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … ot_loaders. What are the contents of your ESP partition? Assuming the partition is mounted to /boot (it should be AFAIK), what does
ls /boot
return?
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hey !
Have you used systemd ?
Have you created a file on /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf ?
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Which bootloader are using? You will need to perform extra steps regardless of which bootloader you chose. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca … ot_loaders. What are the contents of your ESP partition? Assuming the partition is mounted to /boot (it should be AFAIK), what does
ls /boot
return?
I'm using GRUB, following these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#UEFI_systems
The output of
ls /boot
is:
grub memtest86+ syslinux
hey !
Have you used systemd ?
Have you created a file on /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf ?
I haven't done either of those
Last edited by needles6 (2017-05-28 20:15:42)
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What are the contents of your ESP partition? Assuming the partition is mounted to /boot (it should be AFAIK), what does
ls /boot
return?
You quoted this but appeared to have missed supplying the requested output.
If you are using the boot media and mounting all the systems filesystems under /mnt it would be the contents of /mnt/boot assuming you are using the ESP as /boot of the system.
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JohnBobSmith wrote:What are the contents of your ESP partition? Assuming the partition is mounted to /boot (it should be AFAIK), what does
ls /boot
return?
You quoted this but appeared to have missed supplying the requested output.
If you are using the boot media and mounting all the systems filesystems under /mnt it would be the contents of /mnt/boot assuming you are using the ESP as /boot of the system.
On my screen it shows that I did write it, but just to be sure, here is the output:
https://ptpb.pw/GI0k
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Ah I thought that was the output of 'efibootmgr -v'
So the kernel and initrd's are not installed on the ESP. Is the system supposed to be mounting the ESP at /boot?
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Ah I thought that was the output of 'efibootmgr -v'
So the kernel and initrd's are not installed on the ESP. Is the system supposed to be mounting the ESP at /boot?
I edited the original post for clarity. The ouptut of efibootmgr -v is: https://ptpb.pw/NnEl
As for why it says debian, I had previously attempted to install debian, but ran into the same error. I was on the fence on whether to install debian and arch, so I just went ahead and started over with arch so I could have more controll over the installation process.
I installed GRUB on /boot, and mounted sda1, the ESP, to /boot
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There seem to be two different issues with the system. From the output of `efibootmgr -v`
BootCurrent: 0004
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0005,0006,0007
Boot0000* debian VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
Boot0001* UEFI: IP4 Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x3)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(f0761c4cbc08,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0:0<->0.0.0.0:0,0,0)..BO
Boot0002* UEFI: IP6 Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x2,0x3)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(f0761c4cbc08,0)/IPv6([::]:<->[::]:,0,0)..BO
Boot0003* grub VenHw(99e275e7-75a0-4b37-a2e6-c5385e6c00cb)
Boot0004* UEFI: PNY USB 2.0 FD 1100 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x10,0x0)/USB(3,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x5d5f03,0x800,0xf17800)..BO
Boot0005* UEFI:CD/DVD Drive BBS(129,,0x0)
Boot0006* UEFI:USB Device BBS(130,,0x0)
Boot0007* UEFI:Network Device BBS(131,,0x0)
The bootorder does not include 03 which I take it is the arch install of grub
The other issue is that /boot (the ESP) does not appear to have been mounted when the linux package was installed as the kernel and initrd's are not shown in
grub memtest86+ syslinux
Edit:
Grammar seem not some
Spelling shown not show
Edit2:
To attempt to fix the boot order use efibootmgr ( see man page https://linux.die.net/man/8/efibootmgr for parameters )
To fix the missing files from the linux package use the live media ( ensure both the root and boot filesystems are mounted ) then chroot in and reinstall the linux package.
Last edited by loqs (2017-05-28 21:10:49)
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I used
efibootmgr -o 0003,0004
to change the boot order. I typed in efibootmgr -v to confirm it, and rebooted. It still booted to the usb image, and when I typed efibootmgr -v again, It had reverted to the previous boot order. Is there a way to make the change permanent?
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Making it permanent depends on the firmware allowing that see http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#naming ( note in the referenced web page arch in italic means x32 or x64)
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For example on x64 the default fallback path is EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi copying grub.efi to that location and adding a new entry using efibootmgr may be accepted by the firmware.
Last edited by loqs (2017-05-28 21:43:05)
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Sorry for the late reply this wasn't showing up as having new posts...
My grub folder:
jbs @ dmb-gaming-laptop -> pwd
/boot
jbs @ dmb-gaming-laptop -> ls
EFI grub initramfs-linux-fallback.img initramfs-linux.img vmlinuz-linux
jbs @ dmb-gaming-laptop ->
Did you remember to grub-install as per the wiki? Without your kernel images (vmlinuz-*) and initramfs-*.img no wonder you cant boot. Try these steps again and post back the result. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Installation
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