[SOLVED] Unable to boot in UEFI System

Question

For several days I have been trying to get Arch to boot on my desktop by following the Beginners' guide and refering to other Arch wiki articles as well as Arch Forum posts for any problems that I had. I have tried a few bootloaders such as GRUB, gummiboot, and rEFInd and they all give the same result when I attempt to boot - a blinking cursor with no menu and then it returns me to the BIOS;. My UEFI motherboard is the ASUS VI Hero. I have disabled secure boot and both fast boots. I use a live USB with UEFI that is able to boot on my system and was created with dd.
Below are the outputs of some commands that might be useful.
root@archiso ~ # lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 223.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part
├─sda2 8:2 0 4G 0 part
└─sda3 8:3 0 219.1G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 487.3M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 931G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 0 100M 0 part
└─sdc2 8:34 0 232.8G 0 part
sdd 8:48 1 3.8G 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 1 595M 0 part /run/archiso/bootmnt
└─sdd2 8:50 1 31M 0 part
loop0 7:0 0 256.8M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs
loop1 7:1 0 32G 1 loop
└─arch_airootfs 254:0 0 32G 0 dm /
loop2 7:2 0 256M 0 loop
└─arch_airootfs 254:0 0 32G 0 dm /
Windows 7 is on sdc and Arch is on sda (sdb is an extra storage device for Windows). Both sdc and sda are SDDs.
root@archiso ~ # parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDHII (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot, esp
2 538MB 4833MB 4295MB linux-swap(v1)
3 4833MB 240GB 235GB ext4
root@archiso ~ # cat /mnt/etc/fstab
# UUID=0dff590b-24f1-47a2-870e-3f4d2c5bcb6a
/dev/sda3 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,discard 0 1
# UUID=FA3A-728C
/dev/sda1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# UUID=524e2980-d1e6-4948-88f9-c193682d5a9e
/dev/sda2 none swap defaults 0 0
# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* grub
Boot0001* Hard Drive
Boot0002* ubuntu
Boot0003* UEFI: General USB Flash Disk
Boot0008 Hard Drive
Ignore ubuntu, that was on my HDD from before but has been removed. The grub option usually disappears after reboot unless I run efibootmgr -O after I install the bootloader. Using efibootmgr -v option, the output is a bit hard to read.
# efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002,0003
Boot0000* grub HD(1,800,100000,f9c04628-178b-4c94-9b92-62c04f2a5151)File(\EFI\grub\grubx64.efi)
Boot0001* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)..GO..NO........u.W.D.C. .W.D.1.0.E.Z.E.X.-.0.8.M.2.N.A.0....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L. . . . .W. .-.D.M.W.3.C.1.F.6.4.5.0.4.6........BO..NO........u.S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .8.4.0. .E.V.O. .2.5.0.G.B....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.1.S.B.D.S.N.F.A.7.1.3.0.7.5. .L. . . . ........BO..NO........o.S.a.n.D.i.s.k. .S.D.S.S.D.H.I.I.2.4.0.G....................A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.4.1.3.4.3.7.0.4.7.0.2.0. . . . . . . . ........BO..NO........u.G.e.n.e.r.a.l. .U.S.B. .F.l.a.s.h. .D.i.s.k....................A.............................B..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.G.e.n.e.r.a.l. .U.S.B. .F.l.a.s.h. .D.i.s.k........BO
Boot0002* ubuntu HD(1,800,f3a9e,3eaa3162-6352-4ad8-a725-89c738f2b3ad)File(\EFI\Ubuntu\grubx64.efi)
Boot0003* UEFI: General USB Flash Disk ACPI(a0341d0,0)PCI(1d,0)USB(1,0)USB(1,0)HD(1,fc,f800,612a5c68)..BO
Boot0008 Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)..GO..NO........o.S.a.n.D.i.s.k. .S.D.S.S.D.H.I.I.2.4.0.G....................A...........................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.4.1.3.4.3.7.0.4.7.0.2.0. . . . . . . . ........BO..NO........u.W.D.C. .W.D.1.0.E.Z.E.X.-.0.8.M.2.N.A.0....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L. . . . .W. .-.D.M.W.3.C.1.F.6.4.5.0.4.6........BO..NO........u.S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .8.4.0. .E.V.O. .2.5.0.G.B....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.1.S.B.D.S.N.F.A.7.1.3.0.7.5. .L. . . . ........BO..NO........o.G.e.n.e.r.a.l. .U.S.B. .F.l.a.s.h. .D.i.s.k....................A.......................B..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.G.e.n.e.r.a.l. .U.S.B. .F.l.a.s.h. .D.i.s.k........BO
I mount /dev/sda3 to /mnt and /dev/sda1 to /mnt/boot before I arch-chroot and when I tried grub, I installed with:
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot--bootloader-id=grub --recheck
No errors are reported. I then make a config file for grub with:
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Last edited by DetotatedWam (2015-04-01 22:12:06)

Answer 1

Boot\ Secure Boot menu >
Secure Boot state: Disabled
Platform Key (PK) state: Unloaded
OS Type: Windows UEFI mode
I have tried setting "OS Type" to "Other OS" before but that doesn't change anything. I just tried it again and the BIOS freezes upon "Save Changes & Reset".
Boot\ Secure Boot menu\ Key Management >
PK Management: Unloaded
KEK Management: Unloaded
DB Management: Unloaded
DBX Management: Unloaded
The other day, I deleted all of them and backed them up on a USB in order to disable secure boot.
Note: After looking at this menu again I am noticing options to append from file for KEK, DB, and DBX that might help.
Append KEK from File
Allows you to load the additional
KEK from a storage device for an
additional db and dbx loaded
management.
[Yes]
Load the default KEK
[No]
Load from a USB storage device
Append db from File
Allows you to load the additional db
variable from a storage device so
that more custom signed UEFI
executble files can be loaded.
*UEFI executabled files include UEFI
boot loaders, drivers and
applications.
[Yes]
Load the default db
[No]
Load from a USB storage device
Append dbx from File
Allows you to load the additional
dbx variable from a storage device
so that more custom signed UEFI
executble files cannot be loaded.
*UEFI executabled files include UEFI
boot loaders, drivers and
applications.
[Yes]
Load the default dbx
[No]
Load from a USB storage device
Boot\ CSM (Compatibility Support Module)
Launch CSM: Enabled
Boot Device Control: UEFI and Legacy OPROM
Boot from Network Devices: Legacy OPROM first
Boot from Storage Devices: Both, UEFI first
Boot from PCI-E/PCI Expansion Devices: Legacy OPROM first
As a side note: After a reboot, I noticed the Arch boot option disappeared again.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:Have you managed to boot any other distributions that are not compatible with Secure Boot?
I have been able to boot Windows 7 and ubuntu but I beleive both are compatible with Secure Boot so, no.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:The Arch live ISO has the EFI applications PreLoader.efi & HashTool.efi included so that will boot up with Secure Boot enabled.
I will try this and post the results.
Edit: Now my BIOS Freezes everytime I try to save & exit.
Last edited by DetotatedWam (2015-04-01 19:59:18)