Having trouble with GRUB

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 07:55:07

I was installing GRUB and following the official arch installation guide to the letter, and after rebooting without the USB this came up:
https://ibb.co/WNcjHJ3z
I googled some more and managed to delete GRUB and install systemd-boot instead. However, after doing that and rebooting without the USB again, I got the same image, even thought GRUB isn't even installed. This is my second time installing arch and if anybody could help, that would be much appreciated.

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 08:11:53

Also I need to have this fixed by Monday, so a quick answer would be preferred if you can please

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frostschutz · 2025-02-08 08:45:34

Any chance you forgot to create a grub.cfg or put it in the wrong place or wrong name (.conf instead of .cfg or similar)?

If there is one, what does it look like?

Otherwise, maybe you're booting off the wrong drive / have another instance of grub installed on another drive.

In the Grub shell, you can try

set pager=1
ls -l
set

That should list all drives Grub sees, and list the variables (root and others) Grub is using currently. That way you might be able to tell which drive Grub operates on.

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Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 18:56:35

That's weird. The wiki didn't say anything about a grub.cfg. Where would I need to create one and what does it need to contain? And do you know why grub was still showing up after I deleted it?

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 18:58:55

And I used this link for deleting GRUB and installing systemd-boot (which I would prefer using systemd-boot, but as long as it works, it doesn't really matter)
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=223909

mackin_cheese · 2025-02-08 19:01:43

Capybara Gymnastics wrote:

That's weird. The wiki didn't say anything about a grub.cfg. Where would I need to create one and what does it need to contain? And do you know why grub was still showing up after I deleted it?

that's why you should be reading most if not the whole article of the page you are reading. The GRUB page has a configuration section which specifically talks about configuring the grub.cfg file

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 19:04:04

Oh. Whoops. Sorry about that. But still I am left wondering why after deleting GRUB I am seeing the GRUB menu, sorry if I'm coming off as aggressive, I don't mean it I just want to know the answer

frostschutz · 2025-02-08 20:04:37

Uninstalling Grub (using pacman ...) does not uninstall Grub (what grub-install did). Installing another bootloader does not uninstall Grub (on EFI in particular these things can live side by side, check efibootmgr).

Usually the new bootloader takes care of setting itself first. I don't use systemd-boot myself, but the wiki does mention it's supposed to set itself first when you activate it, so... not sure why that doesn't work for you, sorry. Did it give any error message, like "Not booted with EFI, skipping EFI variable setup"?

In that case you'd see grub because it embeds itself in the MBR, and EFI is ignored altogether.

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 21:02:47

Okay so now I've generated the config file, but the bios shows up, and then the image bellow comes up for about one second and after that it just takes me to the bios and it keeps going. I've but my cfdisk in since I thought it might be a error with the partitioning

Rebooting without the usb - https://ibb.co/s9CGTRxD

Cfdisk -
https://ibb.co/C5L0xyKD

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 21:04:00

It gave no error message, and I've just accepted that I have to use GRUB because of what has happened in the post above.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-02-08 22:13:20

The partitioning looks fine.

You have a GRUB menu but no menuentries apart from the firmware settings.

Did you install a kernel package?

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 22:14:04

I installed linux-firmware, if that's what you mean.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-02-08 22:15:07

That is not a kernel package, it is a firmware package. The clue is in the name :-)

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 22:15:51

Oh, sorry. could you give me an example of a kernel package since I don't really know what that is

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-02-08 22:16:42

The vanilla kernel package is called linux but linux-lts might be better if your hardware is not very recent.

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 22:17:27

Okay, well I did install the Linux package so that's good

Head_on_a_Stick · 2025-02-08 22:18:35

Did you reconfigure grub.cfg? The menuentry needs to be generated manually.

Capybara Gymnastics · 2025-02-08 22:59:17

According to the wiki, after generating it it would be done, is there something else I have to do or do you just mean generate the config? I've generated the config btw.

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