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stephenboston

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Registered: 2020-09-27

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[SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

Installed with systemd-boot.

Startup opens with single item in the middle of the screen

Reboot into firmware interface

It then opens up a menu

> Device Manager
> Boot Manager
> Boot Maintenance Manager

and so on.

Continue and Reset options lead back to the initial screen.

Last edited by stephenboston (2020-09-30 08:56:34)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

Sounds like you didn't create any menu entries, or the ones you did create are invalid. Post your configs.

Last edited by Scimmia (2020-09-30 02:24:03)

Khere

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Registered: 2020-03-04

Posts: 170

Re: [SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

Post  your

 /boot/loader/entries/$CONFIGFILE 

Last edited by Khere (2020-09-30 06:44:16)

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stephenboston

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Re: [SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

Thank you. I couldn't get into the system to recover the config files so I repeated the installation and this time I have a working system.

I believe my error was in the arch.conf file.

root="LABEL=archboot" rw

where 'archboot' was the name of the efi partition.

This time I used PARTUUID as the root.

That' s the only difference I can think of. Would that explain it? Or is it likely something else. I'm new to arch and the installation had been pecky and uncertain so it's possible I had other errors. I've done it a few times now and have a better understanding so that may have been the fix rather than the config file.

I apologise for not posting the bad config, but I thought it would be easier to simply re-install.

Last edited by stephenboston (2020-09-30 08:51:29)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,365

Re: [SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

That will have been an issue yes. You pass the identifier of your root partition and not the ESP on that line.

If you consider this solved, please mark it as [SOLVED] or so by editing the title in your first post.

stephenboston

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Registered: 2020-09-27

Posts: 46

Re: [SOLVED]booting to menu: Device Manager, Boot Manager....

Thanks