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mrdudebro1

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[SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Hi all,

I just had some struggles due to my MSI motherboard not storing the boot config. However, I do see the GRUB boot option on my SSD now; however, the issue is when I try to boot into it, it just restarts and brings me back to the motherboards UEFI system. Any ideas?

Thanks,

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mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

am I allowed to bump this?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Not really.

Have you disabled SecureBoot?

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mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Not really.

Have you disabled SecureBoot?

Secure boot is definitely disabled

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … 3e25844cb&

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Please replace the image with a link, we have a 250x250px limit here.

Have you checked /boot/grub/grub.cfg? Share it here if you can't make any sense of it. Also post the filesystem UUIDs. Thanks.

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Please replace the image with a link, we have a 250x250px limit here.

Have you checked /boot/grub/grub.cfg? Share it here if you can't make any sense of it. Also post the filesystem UUIDs. Thanks.

I am posting a picture with my phone of the grub.cfg. I will post it as a link:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … b3b46a611&

How do i get the filesystem UUIDS?

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Did you remember to install a kernel?

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mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Did you remember to install a kernel?

If you are talking about pacstrap then yes I did install a kernel. I just tried reinstalling it to no avail.

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Well then you configured GRUB incorrectly. Please provide the commands used to install and configure the bootloader, also include the commands used to mount the relevant partitions and enter any chroot. Thanks.

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Well then you configured GRUB incorrectly. Please provide the commands used to install and configure the bootloader, also include the commands used to mount the relevant partitions and enter any chroot. Thanks.

Honestly I don't have a log of the commands I've run. I used the installation guide. Is there a way to get that log? Or will just have to start from scratch and kinda record myself so you can see.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

You don't have to start from scratch. Just configure GRUB.

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mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

(i added this to my last post after you replied so you prob didn't see it)

i used this guide for grub https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB and as i stated before this was giving me a hard time since i have MSI motherboard. i had to use the --removable flag.

PS i appreciate your help. Sorry. I just had kali linux fail on me and wanted to try arch.

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Configuration

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Configuration

we are in!!!! finally haha. Been like 2 years since i tried this. anyways, time to try the rest of the stuff i gotta do

mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

actually though i have this errro when booting.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … 730fff8a6&

it seems to at least let me do maintenance? "You are in emergency mode. give root password for maintenance. after logging in type "journalctl -xb" to view system logs"

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Check if the filesystem UUIDs for the partitions mentioned in the error message and see if it matches the entries in /etc/fstab — the UUID will change if the partitions have been reformatted.

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Check if the filesystem UUIDs for the partitions mentioned in the error message and see if it matches the entries in /etc/fstab — the UUID will change if the partitions have been reformatted.

Weird, those two UUID's match the boot (/dev/sda1) and the swap (/dev/sda2) UUID's. The root partition isn't mentioned.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … a0628a887&

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Your picture shows /etc/fstab but not the actual filesystem UUIDs. Did you check those?

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mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Your picture shows /etc/fstab but not the actual filesystem UUIDs. Did you check those?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ … 36011d18d&

it is as you say. shall i regen the fstab? Can i do it from here or do i need to do it from the USB?

mrdudebro1

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

i got it after fixing the fstab to align with the filesystem UUIDS

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB not booting.

Please edit the thread title and prepend [SOLVED] to help others who encounter this problem. Thanks.

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