[SOLVED] seeed odyssey x86j4105, not booting

clexp · 2022-03-27 20:03:19

Hi, New to arch, not in IT - early hobbyist.

Problem:
Trying to install arch on the above named board:
https://www.seeedstudio.com/ODYSSEY-X86 … r_products
I am using the one without the emmc and with out the win10 licence.
I had this board running ubuntu nicely with a western digital ssd:
https://thepihut.com/products/wd-green- … 5811816238

So now I am exploring arch. I am upto installing grub. All the commands seem fine so far, and the grub config install goes fine too. When I reboot I get a list of drives and an offer to go to an 'efi prompt'. I don't think it gets as far as grub or arch, and google isn't telling me anything in 'layman' about how to use the 'efi prompt'.

I looked at the mobo. The manufacturer's site describe UEFI all over the place but I can only boot into what looks like a classic bios screen (is it really UEFI?). Tried both MBR and GPT.

I tried GPT on the ssd with a tiny MBR partition - grub intalled beautifully and then does not boot. Later I then tried a UEFI grub install, but it errored about page blocks or something for which I could not decipher google searches, and unsurprisingly did not boot,

Is there some clever thing anyone knows about this board and Arch?

Or this ssd and gpt/mbr grub loading? I Just don't know where to look.

Last edited by clexp (2022-03-28 20:53:31)

clexp · 2022-03-27 22:05:02

Had another go with a new NVME drive.
https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/pr … DS250G2B0C
The system definitely is booting UEFI.

Did it properly this time, with a bios-boot partition in fdisk, and an refi partition, as well as swap and /. The disk label was changed to gpt. Partitions were formatted and mounted. Installation seemed ok as did, installation of grub and efimanager, and the grub config. Seemed really positive, not a hitch any where. It just won't boot. I will post an image of what it does tomorrow.

Thanks

clexp · 2022-03-28 20:50:56

After using this super webpage:

https://linuxhint.com/use-uefi-interact … mmands/#12

I learnt to use efi commands to mount and read partitions. I found the EFI partition.

And learn that UEFI is weird for some manufacturer's on the arch wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_b … Under_UEFI

I learnt that I needed to copy the grubx64.efi to the 'fallback location' using the efi commands, with the efi name.

please comment if you know a better way,
thanks

Slithery · 2022-03-28 21:24:07

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#D … _boot_path

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#1 2022-03-27 20:03:19

[SOLVED] seeed odyssey x86j4105, not booting

#2 2022-03-27 22:05:02

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