[SOLVED] I can't boot the live iso after BIOs update

Eurkz · 2021-07-21 17:44:32

I updated my bios earlier today and to no surprise it broke something. I have 2 separate NVMe drives, one has arch on it, one has windows 10. I boot up and i go straight to windows, no grub loader. So i go to my bios to make sure secure boot is disabled, still the same problem, and the grub boot loader is not even being recognized in the bios. So i do some looking online and see this is a common problem and I have to just reinstall grub by chrooting into the system with a live USB. Easy enough, I've ran through the installation enough times to know how to do that. Now I try to boot into the live usb but it freezes right here: https://imgur.com/a/XkSxkXJ . Some weird text glitch at the bottom of the screen, and "running early hook [archido pxe nbd]" message on top. I've used 2 different USB's, wiped them, reinstalled fresh up to date ios's, and still getting the same screen. I'm not sure how i can chroot into the system if I cant even get the live iso to work.

Last edited by Eurkz (2021-07-25 23:13:25)

seth · 2021-07-21 20:38:23

Can you boot "nomodeset"?

Eurkz · 2021-07-21 21:20:29

I can't access that drive at all. I think the bios update corrupted the drive.

seth · 2021-07-21 21:22:28

I assume booting nomodeset worked?
Is the drive listed in the BIOS/UEFI?

Eurkz · 2021-07-21 22:25:25

It did not work. I installed windows over the drive to see if that would work and it did. then once I got both drives running again I tried to boot up the arch iso again and the same problem happens. I have no idea whats going on. I went back to the previous BIOs version I was using, wiped the drive, and i still get the same screen.

jrgiacone · 2021-07-21 22:56:10

When you update the bios it erases the grub boot menu. This happens every time for me. Take your arch usb installer, and arch-chroot in and basically remount the drives and reinstall grub. All your files are there and not corrupted, grub just has to be reinstalled. I just read more, when you are installing via usb he is right you press e before launching the installer and type nomodeset at the end of the line. This fixes that issue for me!

Last edited by jrgiacone (2021-07-21 23:04:27)

seth · 2021-07-22 05:59:14

and i still get the same screen

This has nothing do do w/ your drive availability, did you try booting w/ the nomodeset parameter?

Eurkz · 2021-07-23 11:35:40

I was able to boot with using the nomodeset parameter just fine, i tried to chroot and it appeared like everything worked so i rebooted but still was getting the same screen. So I decided to just do a fresh install of arch with the nomodeset parameter. That also went fine until i rebooted and was faced with the same screen again. Even on a fresh install. Being confused I tried to boot another distros live iso to see what would happen so I tried Open SUSE and AGAIN i was faced with a very similar screen upon boot (the text was a little different, i suppose specific to open suse, but those graphical glitches in the top and bottom of the screen were the same). Really not sure whats going on. With a fresh install and a re-partitioned re-formatted nvme drive, shouldn't the drive work good as new?

seth · 2021-07-23 14:05:11

I assume this isn't about the drive.
Boot nomodeset and paste the output of "lspci" and "sudo journalctl -b" - you can use the tip in the 1st link below to upload text from the console.

Eurkz · 2021-07-24 02:34:38

journalctl -b gave me 3,255 lines of code. And I've never used a pastebin service im trying to figure it out but the docs dont give many examples.

loqs · 2021-07-24 02:44:30

# journalctl -b |& curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
# lspci -nnk |& curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Each command will return a web link which you post here.

Eurkz · 2021-07-24 12:25:50

lspci: http://ix.io/3tYv

journalctl -b: http://ix.io/3tYu

seth · 2021-07-24 12:27:03

You'll probably need https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/

Eurkz · 2021-07-24 13:33:51

wow, that did the trick!! Thank you everyone for your time and help!

seth · 2021-07-24 13:37:34

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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#1 2021-07-21 17:44:32

[SOLVED] I can't boot the live iso after BIOs update

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