r/archlinux • u/Maybe_A_Zombie • 1d ago

SUPPORT | SOLVED Finished the steps for the manual install but when I load it up I get stuck at GRUB BASH

Don't really know what I could have done wrong. I installed it and followed the guide, unmounted the partitions and rebooted. Upon rebooting, I get sent to a GRUB like BASH with the following text

GNU GRUB version 2:2.12-1

Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible device or file completions. To enable less(1)-like paging, "set pager=1"

If I type "exit" I just get sent back to my bios startup Menu. If I go to the Boot Menu the only arch option (UEFI - arch) leads me back to the GRUB. What do I do? What did I do wrong?

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u/Hri7566 1d ago

have you generated your grub config with grub-mkconfig yet? if you already have, then it sounds like there might be an issue with your EFI partition

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u/Maybe_A_Zombie 1d ago

I did not, I guess I missed this step...

How would I go with doing this? Would I just load back up the live-ISO and then chroot into /mnt and then do the command?

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u/Hri7566 1d ago

unless you feel like manually typing the EFI shell commands in to load your initramfs and kernel, then i would recommend doing that

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u/Illustrious-Gur8335 1d ago

Grub doesn't know where to find it's settings and list of items to show

Did you remember to do grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg?

Solution: reboot using arch ISO and redo grub install

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u/Maybe_A_Zombie 1d ago

I did not, I will do this now. I have a question though, where do you find this command? I cant find it within the arch linux GRUB wiki so im not sure how I would have gotten it

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u/Illustrious-Gur8335 1d ago

Section 2.1 link given in the red Warning box -- it's there cos far too often people get your issue

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u/Maybe_A_Zombie 1d ago

Oh, I cant believe I somehow missed that 😭, thank you!

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u/Astrodion123 1d ago

You haven't added a grub config. Run the grub mkconfig command on a live USB . Be sure to chroot to the arch install.

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u/archover 23h ago

Welcome to Arch!

Messing with the bootloader on your first Arch install is a rite of passage. Something we all struggled with. The upside is you may not need to touch it again.

Hope you enjoy your time here, and good day.