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logswithmoss

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Registered: 2019-05-14

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Installed Arch, trying to get GRUB working

I'm installing GRUB per the Arch instructions on my Dell XPS 13 (9360). UEFI

I already had Windows installed and need to keep it. My partitions consist of a Linux swap, a linux drive, a windows drive, a windows recovery drive, and an EFI partition which I just made.

The EFI partition is the correct partition type and is FAT32

I mounted my linux partition to /mnt and mounted my EFI parition to /mnt/efi

I arch-chrooted into /mnt and ran

# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB

replacing esp with my efi directory

GRUB is now installed and visible under /efi/EFI/GRUB

Additionally I've generated the main config file with

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

But when I reboot and select my SSD as the boot, I just get a black screen with an underscore

Last edited by logswithmoss (2019-05-14 11:43:57)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Installed Arch, trying to get GRUB working

So you don't see the GRUB screen at all? But you could see the GRUB menu for the ISO image?

Load the ISO image and check the output of

# efibootmgr -v

Is the Arch entry present and is it set as first in the boot order?

You can use a pastebin client to generate a URL for the full output of that command that you can post here for further analysis.

The output of

# parted --list

may also be useful.

What is your graphics hardware?

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der_joachim

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Re: Installed Arch, trying to get GRUB working

IIRC, you should use the entire path of your EFI directory in your --efi-directory parameter, e.g.

# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/mnt/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB

[edit]: misread first post. Long day. Please remove this post if necessary.

BTW: the wiki recommends to mount the EFI partition either in /efi or /boot.

Last edited by der_joachim (2019-05-14 16:39:26)

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mkomo

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Registered: 2019-05-15

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Re: Installed Arch, trying to get GRUB working

Have a read over the following blog post , I have the same setup and the instructions worked fine

Its also worth making sure your BIOS is set to use EFI by default.

jasonwryan

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Re: Installed Arch, trying to get GRUB working

Have a read over the following blog post , I have the same setup and the instructions worked fine

Don't do that. Random blog posts are unsupported here because they are always wrong, or outdated, or usually both.

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