First time arch installer here. I just installed arch with grub on a uefi laptop. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted and ended up in uefi settings instead of grub. The grub entry shows up in the boot options but the computer doesn’t seem to care. What could be wrong?

I dont know what information is useful to narrow the problem down so just tell me what logs are necessary an I’ll post them.

Edit: I tried installing using the archinstall script in case I misunderstood the install instructions, but still not booting. Tried both grub and systemd-boot. The laptop is an Asus vivobook S 14 model K3402Z and even though I have been running fedora on it for the last year I believe the issues have something to do with the laptop hardware.

Edit 2: The issue has been resolved. Turns out the step that ruined the install was when I formatted the NVME drive according to this section of the wiki it messed something up, so reverting that fixed everything.

  • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    My first guess would be either messing up the paths for grub-install and/or grub-mkconfig, or just forgetting grub-mkconfig altogether. Grub should “just work” as long as those commands were run properly and you aren’t using Secure Boot.

    • Cralder@feddit.nuOP
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      1 year ago

      I have mounted my EFI partition to /mnt/boot and after chrooting into the root directory I ran grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=UEFI-GRUB. Then I ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Is there anything wrong with any of these commands? I got no errors when I ran them.