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  • Gyroplast@pawb.socialtoArch Linux@lemmy.ml•New Motherboard with pre-existing Linux Install can't be found?English
    5·
    10 days ago

    You can fix this, and this certainly isn’t “basic”.

    I figure you didn’t see your Linux option, because your EFI boot variables (boot order and boot loader locations) are stored “on the mainboard”, and you didn’t manage to reset those on the new board according to your current layout. Windows still boots, as it installs its bootloader in a generic location intended for removable devices, instead of properly registering itself with EFI boot variables. Because of course they do.

    To fix this, I’d recommend a deep breath first, and then set BIOS to UEFI boot only, no CSM/legacy at all for now, no even as fallback. If you’re lucky, you can boot into your Linux system from the BIOS boot menu right now, and skip the archiso boot and chroot shenanigans. Have a look. Otherwise boot into the archiso as you did before.

    Identify your EFI system partition(s) (ESP) Run sfdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1 and sfdisk -l /dev/nvme1n1, note the “EFI System” type partitions. Ideally, there’s only one at nvme1n1p3. Multiple ESPs would be trickier, but let’s assume your singular ESP is nvme1n1p3. Have a look at the ESP, to understand its layout and confirm this is really what you’re looking for: mkdir /esp, mount /dev/nvme1n1p3 /esp, find /esp. You should find the Windows bootloader at EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi and EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.

    You might also find your grub bootloader in a subdirectory like EFI/arch/grubx64.efi. Find all of your instances with find /esp -iname grubx64.efi, and note the paths. If you find multiple grubx64.efi, I’d recommend to pick only the newest file, unless you know for a fact which one is supposed to be the one you want to use. A ls -l <file> gives you the date of the file to check. If you don’t have any grub bootloader installed, yet, that’s fine, too.

    Create a boot entry with grub in a chrooted system If you can arch-chroot into your Linux system, make sure your ESP is mounted in your chroot as well, let’s say at /esp again, and your /boot directory must be mounted, too, otherwise grub-install will fail. Then grub-install --efi-directory=/esp should do its magic just fine. Use efibootmgr to display/edit the EFI boot variables, and check if the entries in there look correct. The ESP will be referenced by UUID, and the list will look pretty busy, but you should recognize the EFI paths, and your arch entry should be the BootCurrent value. Make sure you’ve got a /boot/grub/grub.cfg in place, otherwise grub won’t do you much good! Create one with grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg from within your chroot, after editing /etc/default/grub if you need to add any kernel arguments for your system. Usually you do not, so fire away.

    If chrooting doesn’t work for you, btrfs can be a little tricky, you should be able to install grub with the ESP and boot partition mounted alone in the archiso. nvme0n1p1 looks like your boot partition, so it’d go down like this:

    mkdir /esp /linuxboot
mount /dev/nvme1n1p3 /esp
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /linuxboot
grub-install --efi-directory=/esp --boot-directory=/linuxboot

    You can pacman -S grub if grub-install isn’t available on archiso, yet. Make sure you’ve got a /linuxboot/grub/grub.cfg in place here as well. Unfortunately you cannot use grub-mkconfig effectively without the chroot, but if you are at this point, and you’re dropped into the grub rescue shell, you can try a minimal, lovingly handcrafted grub.cfg: You need to obtain the UUIDs of your ESP, boot and root partition for the menuentries, and replace the placeholders with your values. You can get those values with lsblk -oNAME,UUID /dev/nvme1n1p3 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme0n1p2, in this order (ESP, BOOTPART, ROOTPART UUID). I assume your root subvolume is named root, and your kernel is named vmlinuz-linux on the boot partition, with a vmlinuz-linux.img initfs. You should adapt these filenames in the grub.cfg if they are different, of course, but I think this is a pretty good guess. :)

    insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
set default="0"
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
  else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}
terminal_input console
terminal_output console
set timeout=5
menuentry 'Arch Linux' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple' {
        load_video
        set gfxpayload=keep
        insmod gzio
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod ext2
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root <BOOTPART UUID>
        echo    'Loading Linux linux ...'
        linux   /vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=<ROOTPART UUID> rw  rootflags=subvol=root
        echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
        initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
}
if [ "$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
  insmod bli
fi
if [ "$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
menuentry 'Windows Boot Manager --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-efi' {
        insmod part_gpt
        insmod fat
        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root <ESP UUID>
        chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}
fi

    Let’s see how this goes.

  • Gyroplast@pawb.socialtome_irl@lemmy.world•me_irlEnglish
    11·
    10 days ago

    Fun side-effect: one finds a strange appreciation and understanding for supervillains hell-bent on ending life on earth, “for no reason”.

    Hey, if you want to see the world burn so badly, stop dilly-dallying and bring out the big guns! This is really taking longer than necessary.