Grub doesn't find OSs (UEFI installation)

I'm trying to install Arch Linux for the second time. Apparently Universe doesn't want me to do it easily not even once...
So I've done everything that the wiki says, and when it comes to installing grub, I install grub, os-prober and efibootmgr
then I do:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck --debug
This step finishes without errors.
Then I try to detect the OSs and create a grub.cfg file that contains them with no success....
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I haven't saved the output of the command but something between the lines is this...
It tries to run something that has to do with lvm (I think it said it's a module) and it can't find that module? Or something like that <---< I have no clue what that is, but by reading on the internet it's something that I've never messed with so... it's unlikely to have it
Then I get errors/warnings about sda3 partition which is the Microsoft Windows 8.1 Reserved partition... and something about not naming right my ufs partition? Or something like that
If I uninstall os-prober then the script runs without warnings but it still doesn't find the OS not even arch linux, cfg file contains zero entries.
When I boot from grub_uefi boot entry, I get the grub minimal console (Which I don't know how to operate or what to do with it)
And last but not least... A fix to that "grub bug" was to disable submenus (Read that In this forum). I did it, I disabled submenus and ran grub-mkconfig again but nothing changed.
I know the info is very vague but I hope that someone with knowledge can figure out what those errors are and why it can't find the oses....
Ty in advance

@TheSaint Yes, I chrooted into the installation...
@ Head_on_a_Stick, I'm not home right now but if you tell me what you want to see from that command, Maybe I can tell you by memory, I've run fdisk -l (Which I suspect shows a similar output) too many times so I've memorized my partitions.
I did solve the problem by using gummiboot instead of grub, but I'd still like to know why grub couldn't find the OSes... I'm VERY sure that I did all the steps of the installation right, I've memorized the steps AND I made sure to read them again before doing the installation.

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Lnstalled Arch alongside windows 8.1 (uefi), grub doesn't show up

Hello people,
I've been following the Beginner's guide to install Arch on my laptop (HP) via the arch.iso on usb flash drive. I have windows 8.1 already installed and I'd like to install Arch alongside it, in uefi mode too.
I could follow most of the steps in the guide, installing arch, grub, ran pacstrap, installed lxde, gummiboot, efibootmgr, etc. But in the end when I reboot, grub doesn't show up and Windows 8.1 boots instead. I even used efibootmgr to display the order of booting (and seeing that Windows was in front of grub), changed the order of booting but to no avail; when rebooted, Windows booted up.
Some information: My efi partition was created by Windows so I used the same partition for Arch's uefi, namely /dev/sda2.
I've got a / partition at /dev/sda6 and a swap partition at /dev/sda7.
I've perfomed the commands
grub-install /dev/sda
but was told that it was wrong (on IRC) and thus I later installed it on the efi partition.
I generated grub.cfg twice:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.conf
but I was told that this was wrong and so I also did
grub-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/efi/grub.conf
because the efi partition was mounted at /mnt/boot/efi.
I've also created some files related to gummiboot as the Arch wiki stated to do and set Arch as default OS to boot, but that didn't seem to work.
Lastly I've also booted into the firmware and I have set to boot from usb first, then OS. (I don't see Linux/Windows choices there, only OS). And yes I disabled secure and fast boot.
P.S.:This is my first Arch installation, I come from Lubuntu/Manjaro and I bought this hardware for the purpose of learning Arch Linux (so I really, really, really want to install Arch on it).
Thanks for any help!
Last edited by linux_dream (2015-05-17 22:43:29)

JeromeDGDG wrote:Hello linux_dream.
First, archlinux is for boot exactly the same than other linux distributions. It mount by a boot manager first (grub for exemple).
So, first of all, you absolutly need to creat a /boot partition with some required tools (have some differents) and then, mount it on /boot. This partition need to be FAT32 with around 512MB (mine is 256MB and works fine) and be gpt/UEFI and bootable. There is specific parameters to pass to the tool at format partition time (but if you followed the wiki, all of this is ok now...).
Hello Jérome,
I do have an uefi partition (FAT32) thanks to Windows. It is on /dev/sda2, so I mounted it as /mnt/boot/efi where I had mounted /mnt as root.
JeromeDGDG wrote:
Then...
you have to see the /boot partition you created on your BIOS. The bios, is the first thinks the computer run at boot time (before everythings). Then go inside your bios and check options around boot and see boot list (sometimes, when change config, you have to reboot again the bios for see the changes on boot list appears). Then on your boot list from BIOS, you have to see your grub /boot partition (mine is named égrub_archlinux" viewed by the boot list of my bios) and make it boot first (or just after usb and cdrom if you prefer...). If not, this grub will never been mounted and windows will start first.
Also, if you are confused with command tools on linux systems and you not sure your partition boot is not well created, you can easily used gparted gui tools (do a bootable cdrom and use it for partitions or check...).
In the BIOS I don't see anything related to grub nor Arch. However in the uefi settings, I do. To access these settings is tedious, I need to boot Windows, click on reboot while maintaining the Shift key, selecting "troubleshooting", go to uefi settings, reboot and then press F9 to enter there. There I can see grub, Arch and Windows and I can enter in Arch from there. So I don't need the arch.iso flash drive anymore, I prefer to boot from my hard disk.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
That doesn't make much sense -- you say you have "installed gummiboot" but also that "Windows was in front of grub [sic]" in your NVRAM entries -- which did you install, GRUB or gummiboot?
Also, installing a desktop environment (LXDE) is mentioned nowhere in the Beginner's Guide.
I installed both Grub and gummiboot (in that order). Yeah I installed LXDE because I thought everything went fine (grub recognized Arch when it generated the .cfg file), I only saw the problems when I rebooted: grub doesn't show up.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
The actual command you should use is:
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=$esp --bootloader-id=grub --recheck
I did that command too, where I took care to replace $esp by /mnt/boot/efi if I remember well. The command worked.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
Again, the command should be:
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
As stated in the ArchWiki page I have linked above.
Make sure you have mounted all your partitions and used `arch-chroot` before running these commands.
I did that command, it generated files and recognized 3 images (linux, initramfs and another thing I don't remember). Again, if I remember well.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
Please post the content of /boot/loader/loader.conf & /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf (if that is what you've called it) and the output of:
lsblk -f
ls -R /boot
# parted -l
# efibootmgr -v
Again, run all these commands after you have mounted all your partitions and used `arch-chroot` from the live Arch ISO.
You can use sprunge to generate a link to their pastebin for the command output:
<command> | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients
Unfortunately I'm having a very hard time to make the curl command work, I think that it's due to my keyboard layout and I can't seem to write the correct apostrophes (mines seem curvy) nor the correct " sign. Here's the error that I get (manually copied):
returned Warning: Illegally formatted input field!
curl: option -F: is badly used here.
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
. I've been seeking help for around 20 minutes on #archlinux (IRC) to no avail thus far.
So I entered some of the commands you mentionned and I took some photos of them. See the 5 photos at https://imgur.com/QN8FBZ1,RLbSe2u,73o1w … ,aBTxNNF#0
Of course it would be much better if I could find a way to make the curl command work.

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GRUB doesn't load on HP 6220

hey everyone,
tried to install arch on an hp 6220 laptop this afternoon. the installation worked fine and everything was working out of the box .... BUT ...
unfortuneatly grub doesn't load after powering up the machine, it just waits and do nothing.
fedora's running on the machine atm and grub's loading fine ... so any ideas?
>> i want that laptop to boot arch!!!!!11 <<
best regards

swordfish wrote:- if you are able to start a live system (let's say a usb stick with an Ubuntu) you could check the SSD with the disks utility. Check before, if you have to enable S.M.A.R.T in your BIOS.
Thanks for the hint! I checked the SMART values and got an UDMA CRC Error Count of 432. Apparently, this is a sign of cable issues so I put in my old drive and checked again, it has an UDMA CRC Error Count of 0. I'm not sure if this means the SSD is broken or not.
I also tested the speed of my old drive with hdparm:
cached reads: ~3000MB/s
buffered disk reads: ~83MB/s
This is seems normal to me, so I guess the cable works properly after all.
Also, the Ubuntu Disks utility couldn't find any partitions on the SSD, which is odd. I was able to mount them, read from them and write to them using an Arch Linux Live disk. Why can't Gnome Disks find the partitions?

UEFI Installation on sdc, Windows 8 partitons on sda gone?

Hi all!
I installed arch on my machine today, now it looks like my windows 8 partitions are gone, maybe someone can help me out.
My setting:
sda Windows 8 uefi installation
sdb ntfs
sdc ntfs and arch uefi installation
So what i did:
I freed up 100GB in sdc for the arch partitions:
[root@chief-pc chief]# sudo gdisk -l /dev/sdc
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdc: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): C82D4B3F-BE8C-4B1F-B3D6-73ED7B839865
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 1743808511 831.5 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
2 1743808512 1744873471 520.0 MiB EF00 efi
3 1744873472 1753262079 4.0 GiB 8200 swap
4 1753262080 1953525134 95.5 GiB 8300 root
As you can see I made a new efi partition on sdc, because I did not want to touch sda at all.
Then I installed grub:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc2 /boot/efi
mkdir /boot/efi/EFI
modprobe dm-mod
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Everything went fine, I rebooted my system and it automatically booted into grub instead of win8 (win bootloader should have been standard in my asus uefi bios), so I rebooted again and tried to switch back to win bootloader in asus uefi bios, but the win entry was gone.
So back to arch, my output for sda looks like this:
[root@chief-pc chief]# sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 234441648 sectors, 111.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): FFB20C3D-64F8-46F9-9504-C591105405FC
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 234441614
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 233827181 sectors (111.5 GiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 616447 300.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition
So where are all the win8 partitions? efi, system-reserved and ntfs
I never touched sda during the installation.
Please help me out here
best regards chief

chieffun wrote:
[root@chief-pc chief]# sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 234441648 sectors, 111.8 GiB
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 616447 300.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition
So where are all the win8 partitions? efi, system-reserved and ntfs
I never touched sda during the installation.
First, please verify that this is the correct disk. As Trilby pointed out, disk device names (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.) can change. There may be a clue in the disk size: 111.8GiB. If both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb were identical, that might not be enough of a clue; but if your disks all had unique sizes, the disk size should tell you which one is which.
Second, the type code 2700 refers to a Windows Recovery Environment (RE) partition. This suggests that this partition is an emergency partition, and the size of 300MiB seems consistent with that. OTOH, the partition name of "Basic data partition" suggests something else. The fact that the one partition fills far less than the entire disk is not a good sign. You could try using "blkid" on the partition in Linux to see what its filesystem type is, and perhaps mount it to examine its contents.
Finally, try using gdisk's recovery features. You can start with the "-v" option to perform a check on the GPT's integrity. It's conceivable that this will report a problem that you'll then be able to correct in one way or another. You could also play with the options on the gdisk recovery & transformation menu (type "r" at the main menu to get here). In particular, it's conceivable that the "c" option on that menu will help; it loads the backup partition table and uses it in preference to the main one. If you use that option and it restores your partitions, save your changes with "w".
WonderWoofy wrote:The manual nature of the Arch Linux installation means that you (should) know exactly what you are implementing and what it is doing. So the only way that Arch Linux can wipe out another system is if the administrator (you) wipes them out.
I agree. Some inadvertent action that you haven't reported must be responsible for these problems. It's conceivable that the action was in another distribution's installer or even in Windows.
WonderWoofy wrote:The only thing you can try is to see if you can use some kind of partition recovery software. There are some out there that can (somewhat reliably) detect where the start and end points of the old partitions were, and regenerate the partition table for you. The other type of recovery software is those that scan the device and try to recover individual lost files. Some of them do both. You should probably start reading up on them.
In Linux, the TestDisk utility can scan for missing partitions, while PhotoRec can scan for lost files. I gather there are better Windows tools for scanning for lost files on NTFS volumes, but I don't happen to have any pointers. TestDisk tends to do a decent job, but it's a bit confusing to the uninitiated, and it can become hopelessly confused if the disk has been repartitioned a lot in the past.
chieffun wrote:So I thought that maybe arch does not like 2 efi partitions in one system and corrupted it somehow.
No, that can't be it. As cfr says, Windows doesn't like multiple ESPs; but that's mostly an issue for the Windows installer. (It tends to get confused and aborts halfway through the installation.) I'm not even sure if Windows misbehaves in this way when the ESPs are on different disks; it might handle that situation OK, for all I know. Windows certainly doesn't go postal on its own partitions if it sees two ESPs. That said, it's conceivable that a Windows bug did cause this problem, if you booted Windows at some point during the process.
chieffun wrote:I also tried to rescue with parted rescue command and gpart, looks like something completely wiped (or corrupted) the partitions away. As if they have never been there in the first place...
In my experience, the partition rescue features of GParted and parted are unreliable at best. TestDisk does a much better job.

Fedora 17 does a noob-friendly UEFI installation

In case anybody's interested, Fedora 17, which was just officially released, will do a painless, no-hands UEFI installation.
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After that I just watched.
Fedora formatted my drive GPT, created a 200Mb EFI partition, a swap partition and a third partition for all the rest. It also correctly created a UEFI boot entry for Fedora. In other words, Fedora is now handling installation to UEFI machines without any intervention.
I know that Arch users aren't looking for a painless, no-hands installation scheme, and I'm not suggesting that Arch follow Fedora in this or be more like Fedora. I'm just pointing out that at least one mass-market distro is accommodating current hardware.
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Last edited by dhave (2012-06-01 05:02:13)

scjet wrote:Anyway,
$99 ?!, I'll seriously, and happily "donate/GIVE" that to Arch to implement this shim, if possible? I mean, Arch is kinda redhat-like in certain system aspects anyway.
It's possible to do it even without paying a cent; you just need users to jump through the one additional hoop of adding a MOK to the Machine Owner Key (MOK) database. Basically, you'd use Matthew Garrett's signed shim, Fedora's signed shim, or any other signed shim with MOK support. Include the MokManager.efi program associated with the shim being distributed. Distribute a version of grubx64.efi (which could be GRUB, ELILO, rEFInd, or some other boot program -- although gummiboot won't work) that's signed with an Arch MOK, and sign the Arch kernels with the same MOK. When the user boots for the first time, MokManager will launch and the user will have to locate and select Arch's public key. Thereafter it will work fine.
Of course, getting a version of shim signed with Microsoft's key and with Arch's MOK built in would be better, since that would eliminate the need for users to use MokManager, at least for launching standard Arch-provided kernels. This is good because MokManager has a cutting-edge 1980 user interface, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Apple II. I'm sure the average Arch user can deal with it, but still....
Another option is the Linux Foundation's PreBootloader. It's still not available in signed form, but when it becomes available it may become a usable option. Of interest to Arch users is that it may work with gummiboot as a follow-on boot program, which shim can't do -- at least, not unless and until gummiboot incorporates explicit support for shim.

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Hi all, I only have a single SSD in my laptop with the following setup (in order on disk):
sda1 - System Reserved
sda2 - Windows 8
sda4 - Extended Partition
sda5 - Arch 2 (this is where I'm trying to move my Arch install to)
sda3 - Arch (this is the one I can actually boot into
(unallocated space)
This is what I want things to look like eventually:
sda1 - System Reserved
sda2 - Windows 8
sda3 - Extended Partition
sda4 - Arch
sda5 - some other distro
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Here's how I think I'm going to do this:
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- after verifying that I can boot the Arch installation from the logical partition, delete the Arch installation on the primary partition and absorb the free space into the extended partition
Here's what I've done:
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- ran 'grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg' to update GRUB and add the logical partition to the list of things to choose from in the Grub menu.
After running 'grub-mkconfig' nothing new was added to the menu.
Questions:
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- can I have the logical partition marked for storage be accessible to Windows 8?
- Is there an easier way to do what I want to do?
- How do I get GRUB to detect the logical partition?
- Is it possible to boot into a logical partition?

grub doesn't always automatically pick up arch installations. Is os-prober installed? You can always add the entry manually e.g. in 40_custom or whatever. Don't forget to adjust fstab.
Just to be clear: you have an MBR formatted disk and are talking about traditional logical partitions, right? Not lvm?
Last edited by cfr (2013-02-02 01:31:48)

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Löse Abhängigkeiten auf...
Suche nach Zwischenkonflikten...
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When i want to download the test version of CC, creative cloud doesn't find the file. Always searching, what do i do?

Hi clemdef,
Change your browser and try again. Please refer the kb: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/troubleshoot-cc-installation-download.html for download issues.
You may even try the direct download: http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cc-direct-download-links.html .
Kindly follow the very important instructions before download.
Regards,
Romit Sinha

Second boot hangs because grub can't find disks

So I install arch onto a Xen HVM machine and then boot it and set up pacman, update the machine, and then reboot it and then grub can't find the disks. Could someone help me find out why or point my in the right direction? I have tried both grub and grub2 without any luck. The /boot is ext2 and home and / are ext4 if that matters. This only happens when i am fully updated. The system seems to work with the 2010.05 snapshot.
Last edited by Dizzy1 (2011-05-08 06:46:14)

/etc/fstab of the installed system and blkid to show the uuids
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot3.png
fdisk -l /dev/sda
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot4.png
sda1 is /boot
sda2 is swap
sda3 is /
sda4 is /home
grub config, menu.lst
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/sda (hd0)
# /dev/sdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/sda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# for more details and different resolutions see
# http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1347f942-3f04-4d1b-a032-8ce0ae5737d8 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1347f942-3f04-4d1b-a032-8ce0ae5737d8 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
I used the aif installer to install grub.
and the error message:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4580377/screenshot6.png
If I missed anything, please tell me.
Last edited by Dizzy1 (2011-05-08 15:03:24)

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