Fixed Arch install error

yianiris, 10 months ago

@Hiro8811

1 Did you boot the live medium with bios or efi?

2 Do you have libnvme and nvme-cli installed? If no, try them, if yes look up things on the manuals. It may be that your bootloader can't read/mount from the nvme

3 Ever since systemd-boot appeared things have been not working so well, now, have they?

luthis, 10 months ago

Both lines are commented out, # means that it is ignored

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

TheUUID is not comented out. Only nvme0n1p is

luthis, 10 months ago

Should there be a space between ‘relatime, flask=’ ? Is that in fstab? It should all be one string, like in mine mine rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

It’s one line with no spaces but I’m writing on a phone and Jarboa autocorrect is ass.

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

Still same error

Nibodhika, 10 months ago

Refind does not generate the proper Configs when ran from the live image. From the wiki

Warning: When refind-install is run in chroot (e.g. in live system when installing Arch Linux) /boot/refind_linux.conf is populated with kernel options from the live system not the one on which it is installed. Edit /boot/refind_linux.conf and make sure the kernel parameters in it are correct for your system, otherwise you could get a kernel panic on your next boot. See #refind_linux.conf for an example file.

This is how my /boot/refind_linux.conf looks like:

<span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with standard options"  "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot to single-user mode"    "rw root=/dev/nvme1n1p2 single"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with minimal options"   "ro root=/dev/nvme1n1p2"
</span>

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

Using nano it just created new file

Nibodhika, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Have you mounted /boot? Usually it’s in a different partition so you’ll need to mount it.

Edit: yup, your boot is in a different partition according to your fstab

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

From where should I mount it? Emergency shell? Chroot?

Nibodhika, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Every time I made this mistake I booted again the live iso, mounted the boot drive and edit it.

Edit: you can also just edit the entry on refind directly to boot once on a correct config, and then fix it inside your actual system. The error is that the root filesystem will have an uuid that relates to the live iso image, not to your actual system.

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

I think I managed to mount it but what should I edit?

Nibodhika, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Ok, if I understood correctly your fstab what you should do is:

1. Boot the live iso
2. Run mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt
3. run nano /mnt/refind_linux.conf
4. Alter the file so it says this:

<span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with standard options"  "rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p2"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot to single-user mode"    "rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p2 single"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">"Boot with minimal options"   "ro root=/dev/nvme0n1p2"
</span>

5. Save and close
6. Unmount the drive umount /mnt
7. Reboot

That should work

Edit: noticed my disk was 1 while yours is 0, didn’t remembered I had two ssds on that machine hahahah

Edit2: check that the file exists in /mnt, it should if you ran refind-install the first time.

Hiro8811, 10 months ago

I get the same error. Should I install grub?

Nibodhika, 10 months ago

Did you confirm that the file existed before editing? And that you were mounting the correct boot and not root partition?

I don’t know what else it can be if that doesn’t solve it.

yianiris, 10 months ago

systemd doesn't like booting with ro, too dumb to check then mount filesystems.

@Nibodhika @Hiro8811

hperrin, 10 months ago

Check your /etc/fstab file to make sure your root partition is correctly specified, then rerun your bootloader install.

luthis, 10 months ago

Also come on guys, let’s prove that the Arch community isn’t all full of assholes, let’s help this dickhead sort their stupid ass issue.

(/s)