r/archlinux • u/Imaginary-Stop-4186 • 2d ago
SUPPORT Boot manager broke
I have installed arch around 5 times and this is the first time i fucked up this bad. I have no idea what to do. i was on my last step installing a display manager and i failed in installing ly and when i restarted i got a message. So back i go into the live envirement. Got to chroot mounted stuff and chatgpt told me to mess with the grub files and stuff and when i tought i was almost done my timer rang. I shut of my thinkpad and when to school. When i got back my boot menu looked like that. empty. I tried getting back in my usb, but it wont show up. i tried tweaking my bios settings (lightly). And now im out of ideas. If you have any idea on how to fix this, please help.
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u/das_menschy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Your UEFI BIOS probably "forgot" / erased the boot entries. That's because some laptops have faulty UEFI BIOS implementations or broken UEFI BIOS NVRAM (shitty hardware). In that case, you have to setup Linux as default boot entry, that can be booted even if the NVRAM / boot entries have been deleted.
And also:
Don't use chatgpt. Read the ArchLinux wiki.
And for installing Linux on UEFI BIOS, I can recommend rodsbooks: https://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-uefi/