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juru

Member

Registered: 2020-01-07

Posts: 1

Problems with fwsetup

I installed arch linux in a new laptop then I installed grub and ubuntu.
I am having some troubles trying to access a bios uefi.
My screen just freezes, a black screen with the  when I choose System setup on grub, or when I try to hit F2 when computer is starting.
What should I verify to try fix this problem?
I know I did not provide a lot of information, because I dont even know what kind of information should I provide.
please help me! =/

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,703

Re: Problems with fwsetup

You installed Ubuntu after Arch?  I bet it hosed your bootloader and installed it's own.

trying to access a bios uefi.

Um -- those acronymns are mutually exclusive. What are you trying to do, and do you use BIOS, or uEFI ?

Boot from your Arch Linux install media and fix the bootloader.   You may end up having to set up a chroot environment like you did when you installed Arch https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot
It should also be possible to fix it from Ubuntu, but that is out of scope here.

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