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KingMinai

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Registered: 2019-09-04

Posts: 2

systemd-boot: No Media Present...

Hi! I wiped my ssd to get rid of windows and clean install arch. Following archwiki everything went smoothly until I rebooted. I get the message:

>>Checking Media Presence... 
>>No Media Present...

After waiting for a few secounds it goes to the systemd-boot and everything continues normally. I tried to boot directly from the F12 boot menu into my ssd but then after waiting it gives me another error telling me to insert a bootable media or restart. I've tried using efibootmgr to add a new boot entry as explained in the arch wiki. Besides that I've edited the arch.conf and removed initrd /intel-ucode.img and using diferent arguements for the options parameter (such as adding add_efi_memmap and changing the format of the root parameter)

I've been fighting with this for the past three days to no avail. Any help will be apprechiated.

Oh and I am using a Toshiba Satellite P50t-A0342 if that could help in anyway.

Output of $ efibootmgr

Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0000,0004,0003,2003,2001,2002
Boot0001* UEFI: Network Card 
Boot0002* UEFI: Network Card 
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
Boot2003* EFI Network
Boot0000* Linux Boot Manager

Output of $ bootctl status

System:
     Firmware: UEFI 2.31 (American Megatrends 4.654)
  Secure Boot: disabled
   Setup Mode: user

Current Boot Loader:
      Product: systemd-boot 242.84-2-arch
     Features: ✓ Boot counting
               ✓ Menu timeout control
               ✓ One-shot menu timeout control
               ✓ Default entry control
               ✓ One-shot entry control
          ESP: /dev/disk/by-partuuid/21e51109-03e9-464a-a17f-7f60ed01e83d
         File: └─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

Available Boot Loaders on ESP:
          ESP: /boot (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/21e51109-03e9-464a-a17f-7f60ed01e83d)
         File: └─/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi (systemd-boot 242.84-2-arch)
         File: └─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (systemd-boot 242.84-2-arch)

Boot Loaders Listed in EFI Variables:
Boot Loader Entries:
        $BOOT: /boot (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/21e51109-03e9-464a-a17f-7f60ed01e83d)

Default Boot Loader Entry:
        title: ArchLinux
         type: conf
           id: arch
        linux: /vmlinuz-linux
       initrd: /initramfs-linux.img
      options: root=PARTUUID=f284d8c9-65ac-ca4a-964a-784e754fe66a rw

Last edited by KingMinai (2019-09-04 21:06:48)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,417

Re: systemd-boot: No Media Present...

That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Arch or systemd-boot, check your firmware setup and ensure that the wanted entry is the first boot option before any external drives/usb devices.

What I do find kind of weird is that you seem to have the systemd-boot twice in the boot order, what happens if you adjust that relevantly?

Last edited by V1del (2019-09-05 07:31:32)

KingMinai

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Registered: 2019-09-04

Posts: 2

Re: systemd-boot: No Media Present...

That doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Arch or systemd-boot, check your firmware setup and ensure that the wanted entry is the first boot option before any external drives/usb devices.

I've checked the boot order from the device firmware and it is correct. Also like I said I also tried to directly boot into the sdd with arch and doing that causes it to give me an error and not boot at all.

What I do find kind of weird is that you seem to have the systemd-boot twice in the boot order, what happens if you adjust that relevantly?

I tried removing duplicates which removes the extra entry but issue still persists and removes the systemd-boot after rebooting.

This only happens when I install arch alone, with windows it works without any issue.