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StinkFish

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Registered: 2019-07-09

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[SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

I recenty dug out a 2010 CR48 that I have laying around that has Crunchbang Waldorf (based on Debian 7) on it and decided to boot ArchLinux on it.

After booting into arch iso, I used Archinstall to complete the installation, no errors and I can chroot in to the system. Perfect. However, when reboot, I'm met with *No Bootable Device*, I look around the wiki, google, forum and telegram group, all said mainly grub is not install correctly. Some nice/patient people guided me to chroot and reinstall GRUB and add efibootmgr entries, and it looks all fine, but once reboot, nothing.

I have installed multiple times, both through archinstall script and manually, I have mounted ESP on /boot and /boot/efi (different times), with corrosponding grub-install ESPs and grub-mkconfigs, all went without issue, (I did noticed that after complete installation, efibootmgr doesn't have the boot entry). Reboot, *No Bootable Device*.

I also tried EndeavourOS, with the same result, no error and *No Bootable Device*. A old forum post showed me this installing GRUB to the default/fallback boot path., which seems to be the perfect solution. But alas, no solution, again met with *No Bootable Device*.

I am all out of ideas, now I'm considering hardware issue. Either firmware not updated to retain boot entries (no solution as there is no firmware update for this device), or SSD damage (which would require me to replace a ssd, easily done).

I am questing though, how did it retain boot entry for my Crunchbang?

[Edit]

Solved by using legacy boot.

Last edited by StinkFish (2023-08-22 00:15:34)

jonno2002

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#D … _boot_path
EDIT: sorry i must have missed where you said you had tried this...
EDIT2: try this instead: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2030843

Last edited by jonno2002 (2023-08-21 01:37:24)

StinkFish

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#D … _boot_path
EDIT: sorry i must have missed where you said you had tried this...
EDIT2: try this instead: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p2030843

Thank you for the reply, I will try it, but ... this is not a microsoft laptop.

I did tried

# mv esp/EFI/grub esp/EFI/BOOT
# mv esp/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi esp/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

however, when I typed in

# mv esp/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi esp/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

it gave an error, "esp/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi file or directory not found". I went in to esp/EFI/BOOT/ and it doesnt have a grubx64.efi but has BOOTX64.efi.

Last edited by StinkFish (2023-08-21 01:47:22)

jonno2002

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

sorry i completely failed, of course its chrome os.
can you install via legacy boot ? and eliminate uefi all together

StinkFish

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

sorry i completely failed, of course its chrome os.
can you install via legacy boot ? and eliminate uefi all together

That is on one of my to do lists, I will reply back with result.

Thank you

jonno2002

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

also some more info here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Chrome … Chromebook
https://web.archive.org/web/20180720194 … Flash+BIOS

StinkFish

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Re: [SOLVED] CR48 not retaining boot entries

can you install via legacy boot ? and eliminate uefi all together

That solved it, it boots up perfectly with legacy. I then have to install networkmanager and x86-video-intel for the wifi and display.

Thank you