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Random Penguin

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Registered: 2024-03-26

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Arch not booting, gets rebooted to BIOS settings immediately

Man. Arch Linux is something...

I have spent quite a while trying to install Arch Linux on my USB drive from an ISO installer, where I have tried many articles and methods. The latest one has my OS rebooting to the BIOS menu (in this case the One-Time Boot Menu) and I can't get anything but a blank screen for a second. I have tried troubleshooting, but I cannot find an article or help page that fixes this problem, coupled with the fact that I am relatively new to command line interfaces. I have had some practice before on a Raspberry Pi 3B with RPOS, but nothing like that has prepared me for the long time I have spent trying to just run Arch like a normal OS.

The steps I took are in this article: https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/arch-linux … ion-guide/ . The official one on this wiki was not helpful, but that's not saying it's bad. It's comprehensive and useful for many people, but not me for this reason.

It's worth noting that it worked before, using Hyprland, then my USB became unbootable, so I just reinstalled Arch using another website. I have access to the terminal in the live ISO for now, but I'm not always in control of when I can use it.

Thanks, Random Penguin

Last edited by Random Penguin (2024-03-26 12:50:36)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Arch not booting, gets rebooted to BIOS settings immediately

The steps I took are in this article: https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/arch-linux … ion-guide/ . The official one on this wiki was not helpful

Your linked "guide" is utter rubbish and does not configure the bootloader. You will need to follow the official guide & wiki instead. Post back if you have any specific problems with that.

EDIT: welcome to the forums.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2024-03-26 16:01:51)

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