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waski

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Registered: 2019-12-17

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[Solved] Computer freeze during GRUB instalation

Hi,
Im trying to install arch on very old laptop Acer Aspire ES15.
Problem is that it stuck on the grub installation:

 grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=boot/efi --bootloader-id=GRUB 

Laptop is completely stuck, no reaction.
I tried execute grub-install with --verbose option, and it shows that efibootmgr is the problem:

 
grub-install: info: executing modprobe -q efivars
grub-install: info: executing efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda -p 1 -w -L GRUB -l \EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi

Again executing command after reboot and chroot:

 efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --write-signature --loader /EFI/GRUB/grubx64.efi --label "GRUB" --verbose 

Verbose mode does not give me any result, laptop does not react on anything.

EDIT
Ok i found that adding --no-nvram makes installation successful but no efi entry is added to MB.

It is ok, but how can I add efi entry if efibootmgr --create stuck?

EDIT2
Ok guys i found: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFISTUB#bcfg  Here is the way of how can i add efi entry from UEFI shell level without using efibootmgr.
Problem is solved now.

Last edited by waski (2024-04-06 12:17:11)