Arch Linux

theluminousarcher

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Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

Why does my archlinux install -with grub- is not appearing as a bootable os, instead the bootmenu shows the drive it located where the os can be booted. This is not the same with systemd-boot as it clearly shows as “Linux Boot Manager” instead of just the drive name. (Ignore the other boot options they are just a remnant of the previous installation) 

I have installed arch using the archinstall script

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d.ALT

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

What does

# efibootmgr -u

show?

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theluminousarcher

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0005,0003,0001
Boot0000* Fedora        HD(1,GPT,33e15eea-98b8-4bed-a70f-b9538a327e97,0x800,0x12c000)/File(\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi)
Boot0001* UEFI KBG40ZNS512G NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB 89FPD1XWPQFN 1   PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x4)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,8C-E3-8E-04-00-1E-76-3B)/HD(1,GPT,d6b99a3c-08b1-4956-aa11-713f61633d95,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\Boot\BootX64.efi)걎脈鼑䵙຅᫢ⱒ뉙
Boot0003* debian        HD(1,GPT,0533fe1f-9ce5-4e73-aa13-af1f12c01eea,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\debian\shimx64.efi)
Boot0005* Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS     HD(1,GPT,6656786d-28b6-40c8-8589-a75cf842fa26,0x1000,0x1fefff)/File(\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi) 

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

How did you install grub?

theluminousarcher

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

I just installed via the archinstall script, via selecting grub as the bootloader option

d.ALT

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

If your computer's UEFI implementation is capable of, then just install (another) GRUB: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#UEFI_systems

Or just use one of the many EFI Loaders you already have.

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

There is a separate section here for archinstall, most of us have no idea what all it does. This seems purely on archinstall.

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

Mod note: Moving to archinstall subforum.

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theluminousarcher

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

If your computer's UEFI implementation is capable of, then just install (another) GRUB: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#UEFI_systems

Or just use one of the many EFI Loaders you already have.

I cant figure out on how to install grub again i mounted the dev/nvme0n1p1 partition to /boot and did what it said, it now says:

grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/nvme0n1p1.
grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/nvme0n1p1.
grub-install: warning: disk does not exist, so falling back to partition device /dev/nvme0n1p1.
grub-install: error: disk `hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1p1' not found. 

d.ALT

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

grub-install: error: disk `hostdisk//dev/nvme0n1p1' not found. 

DAF**K????
Boot (again) into the ArchLinux's Live ISO and manually reinstall GRUB.
Ask here if more doubts arise.

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V1del

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

Also where have you executed that mounting operation? You need to mount the logical setup into /mnt, chroot in, and reinstall GRUB from the chroot and not the live disk.

So mount your intended root into /mnt your intended /boot into /mnt/boot, arch-chroot /mnt and THEN follow the GRUB installation instructions.

theluminousarcher

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Re: Archlinux not available as a bootable option in the boot menu

Also where have you executed that mounting operation? You need to mount the logical setup into /mnt, chroot in, and reinstall GRUB from the chroot and not the live disk.

So mount your intended root into /mnt your intended /boot into /mnt/boot, arch-chroot /mnt and THEN follow the GRUB installation instructions.

Thanks alot, I followed your instructions and was able to reinstall grub, it now does appears as a separate entry now. I was at first executing the mounting operation from the system itself, not from the live iso which led to the error.