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chelsia

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Registered: 2025-04-12

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grub loader disappearing and emergency boot

I run arch and windows dual boot with grub but everytime I want to use arch I would have to manually do so during startup and selecting grub from the boot menu (secure and fast boot already turned off). For a while this worked until grub suddenly disappeared from the boot menu and I attempted to fix this by reinstalling (mkinitcpio -p, grub install) from a live disk and though grub returned as a startup option booting arch would put it in emergency mode and im not sure what the issue is. A lot of services seem to have failed and journal logs seem to indicate repeated failed attempts to start the system. For context on initial install I mounted efi partition on /boot and when reinstalling i followed another guide that said to mount on /boot/efi.

journalctl -b: https://pastebin.com/6LhT550n
fstab: https://pastebin.com/Ee5aeVxt
blkid: https://pastebin.com/BZiGsZkx
errors: https://pastebin.com/3JLuQuQh

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,446

Re: grub loader disappearing and emergency boot

Apr 13 12:45:48 Arch kernel: Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=85a358ee-534c-46ad-a7a4-fdca6ce1972a rw loglevel=3 quiet nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1

Your kernel parameters are a mess. `BOOT_IMAGE=` should not be there and you have nvidia-drm.modeset twice. Also take off `quiet` so you can actually see what's going on during the boot.

Which "another guide" did you use to reinstall?

Natano

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Registered: 2025-04-21

Posts: 5

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Re: grub loader disappearing and emergency boot

Hello. You could, if you like grub a lot, boot from a flashdrive with the superGrub2disk. More info on their website