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ValeraBahley

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Registered: 2021-06-05

Posts: 3

Boot issues. Laptop sees fantom boot options.

Sup, arch, there is a small problem.
I have installed arch on a laptop. Everything works well, except the computer does not boot itself. Stands on a black screen with a blinking cursor.

But if you tap on escape button several times and go to the boot menu, then the option selection menu shows as many as 4 "notebook hard drives",

and if you select the second one, the system boots up as intended. At the same time, only one such option is visible in the BIOS settings. I'm sure that the "bootable" checkbox was only set on the root partition.

Maybe someone knows where I could have shitted myself? Is it possible to solve without reinstalling?(data loss doesn't matter) What should I pay attention to when reinstalling if the problem remains unsolved? Just reinstalled grub. No result...

upd: aren't images supposed to display inline here? Open them in new tab then...

Last edited by ewaller (2021-06-05 16:34:41)

ValeraBahley

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Registered: 2021-06-05

Posts: 3

Re: Boot issues. Laptop sees fantom boot options.

Maybe, I should try another bootloader? But I don't really want to switch from grub...

captain_sensible

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Registered: 2021-05-29

Posts: 46

Re: Boot issues. Laptop sees fantom boot options.

i would ask ,was  Windows previously on your laptop and is Arch now the only single OS installed ?

uefi motherboards that have the uefi firmware use an esp partition was part of the boot system. However if you don't install grub right its possible it was installed onto the mbr. I'm assuming that was done right but i can't see your partitions and i can't see the code you used.

If i understand uefi correctly since the system look for info on the efi partition then whatever got ont othe mbr would be ignored.I've got a cheap and cheerful HP laptop only 60 gig  and grub2 is working fine but  i  used Anarchy installer after getting glitches using the vanilla Arch iso with "guided install" .

To see if grub entries made it onto the efi ,you could use efibootmgr , which is not installed as default and so you need to install it from pacman.

Last edited by captain_sensible (2021-06-05 16:36:49)

ValeraBahley

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Registered: 2021-06-05

Posts: 3

Re: Boot issues. Laptop sees fantom boot options.

i would ask ,was  Windows previously on your laptop and is Arch now the only single OS installed

No, the drives were fully formatted.
I did it the BIOS with MBR way, I don't think efibootmgr would help me...