[SOLVED] Arch doesn't appear in the boot loader after fresh install

valk · 2017-07-01 21:03:23

Hi,

I followed the installation guide (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide) for my DELL 9350 and everything went smooth. However after reboot, I can only see the icons to the old systems (Ubuntu and Windows) which don't exist any more. But cannot see Arch.

I installed one root and one swap partitions. And also installed the grub.

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

Last edited by valk (2017-07-02 07:09:12)

jasonwryan · 2017-07-01 21:06:35

Icons?

Post your exact steps, including details of your partition table and grub config.

valk · 2017-07-01 21:51:56

I downloaded the latest iso: https://www.archlinux.org/releng/releas … 1/torrent/, wrote it with dd to USB and booted from it.

DELL 9350 has the UEFI so I checked that this dir is present: /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

The following commands were executed:

# timedatectl set-ntp true

Then I created two partitions with cparted: the / and the swap and formatted them:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

Then,

# pacstrap /mnt base

# genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

And checked, and fstab was fine here.

# arch-chroot /mnt

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Israel /etc/localtime

# hwclock --systohc

# locale-gen

Then

vi /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8   # uncommented

vi /etc/hostname
varch

Add to

/etc/hosts
127.0.1.1	myhostname.localdomain  varch

pacman -S  iw wpa_supplicant     # for the wireless

# passwd

pacman -S intel-ucode

Then followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … de_updates

Then,

exit
umount -R /mnt

and

reboot

Now. I saw that menu I guess it's DELL's UEFI menu like grub but it shows those icons visually - the logos of Ubuntu and Windows. Anyway, I now changed a bit the BIOS and powering on the computer I see just the

grub >

Now, I cannot type all the output of lsblk, but, there's:

sda with sda1 (efi), sda2 (root) and sda3 (swap)

Regarding the grub - I thought it's all automatic and didn't install/configure anything related to it as it wasn't mentioned in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide.

jasonwryan · 2017-07-01 21:57:20

Nothing is automatic in Arch: you still have to install and configure a bootloader or boot manager.

valk · 2017-07-02 06:51:06

After trying different options for installing GRUB, I decided to try systemd-boot, which didn't solve the problem.

After digging deeper a few hours in the WIKIs and noticing that my UEFI has rEFInd, I followed this guide

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/REFInd

So I booted again to the installation media, mounted the EFI and ran

refind-install

And after rebooting eventually saw the beautiful Arch logo.
Pheww.

Blasphemist · 2017-07-04 14:01:11

You're using a UEFI system so you need to mount the ESP as well as the root partition when you do the installation. That is where the boot loader or boot manager lives. You are seeing the UEFI built in boot manager as you thought. It is showing you the boot entries in the UEFI variables. You don't have an entry in that for Arch since you didn't get the boot partition implemented and didn't correctly install a boot manager or loader. Go back and follow the instructions from the beginning for a UEFI system including an EFI System Partition, ESP, with a /boot mount point.

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#1 2017-07-01 21:03:23

[SOLVED] Arch doesn't appear in the boot loader after fresh install

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