Bootloader systemd-boot broken - only possible option is "reboot into firmware settings"

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OS: endeavourOS
boot menu: UEFI
bootloader: systemd-boot
partitions: seperate /, /home and swap

Hiya yall, I do use arch daily in school and soon in university, but right now i am in a pickle.

So i put on fresh thermal paste on my t480’s cpu, and after rebooting I assume my bootloader broke. The system only allows me to “reboot into firmware settings”, and that gui looks like systemd.
I was recommended resetting bios, which i did but that didnt help.
After, i tried to arch-chroot reinstall the bootloader

Important drive:

$ lsblk
nvme1n1 .... - installation drive
⊢nvme1n1p1 .... - former bootloader
⊢nvme1n1p2 .... - /
⊢nvme1n1p3 .... - /home
⊢nvme1n1p4 .... - swap

then i made and mounted the partitions:

$ mount /dev/nvme1n1p2 /mnt
$ mkdir /mnt/boot 
$ mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/boot
$ mount /dev/nvme1n1p3 /mnt/home
$ swapon /dev/nvme1n1p4

then $ arch-chroot /mnt and $ bootctl install.

I then restarted and the problem prevails. I hope i can get some help from you lot, feel free to criticize my formatting, descriptions … yada yada yada.

Thanks

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That is a mess. First of all, reinstalling the bootloader won’t fix that problem.

Next, we don’t mount the ESP on /boot. If mkdir /mnt/boot didn’t fail, it means you had the wrong thing mounted on /mnt. It should have failed because /boot should already exist in your root partition.

You likely broke your system more with those commands.

Can you share the output of sudo parted -l so we can see what we are working with? Then we can propose the commands to help with this situation.

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You were supposed to buy the thermal paste that says “wont access your /boot directory and mess with your bootloader” on the packaging.

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oh alright, i thought “compatible with linux” was enough for the thermal paste :rofl:

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My bad.

I only added information about the specific drive as the output. Thanks for helping me anyways.

$ sudo parted -l
Model: SAMSUNG MZVLB512HAJQ-000L7 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 512GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name        Flags
 1      1049kB  1075MB  1074MB  fat32           bootloader  boot, esp
 2      1075MB  61.1GB  60.0GB  btrfs
 3      61.1GB  358GB   297GB   btrfs
 4      358GB   376GB   18.2GB  linux-swap(v1)              swap
 5      376GB   512GB   136GB   ext4            root  (this one can be ignored as it is just old scrap from another broken system of mine which i still wanted to access once in a while.)
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Ahh…it is btrfs.

Try this:

sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p2 /mnt @subvol=@
sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/efi
sudo arch-chroot /mnt
bootctl install
reinstall-kernels
exit
reboot
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reistall-kernels is not found.

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It’s reinstall-kernels not reistall-kernels.

But if you only made the typo in your post, you could make sure that kernel-install-for-dracut is installed via yay -Qs kernel-install-for-dracut. This program provides the reinstall-kernels command.

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yay wasnt installed so i tried to instal it…

error: yay: signature from "manuel <manuel@endeavouros.com>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/yay-12.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] 
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Sorry, pacman -Qs dracut should do the same thing. Then you can check for kernel-install-for-dracut

And I mean run this command after you followed daltos post.

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yes i am in chroot…
if you meant kernel-install-for-dracut as a command then the command was not found if you meant to install it:

pacman -S kernel-install-for-dracut
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (4)                            New Version  Net Change  Download Size

extra/cpio                             2.15-2         0.97 MiB               
extra/dracut                           103-2          1.44 MiB               
core/pkgconf                           2.1.1-1        0.16 MiB               
endeavouros/kernel-install-for-dracut  1.10.1-1       0.02 MiB       0.02 MiB

Total Download Size:   0.02 MiB
Total Installed Size:  2.59 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 kernel-install-for-dracut-1.10.1...    18.3 KiB   112 KiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking keys in keyring                                     [------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) checking package integrity                                   [------------------------------------] 100%
error: kernel-install-for-dracut: signature from "EndeavourOS <info@endeavouros.com>" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kernel-install-for-dracut-1.10.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Is this a recent install? When did you install the system?

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end of 2023

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You should definitely have those packages on your system already.

Can you share the output of pacman -Q | grep -E "eos|endeav|kernel"

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there is no output

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You ran it in your arch-chroot?

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yes

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Can you share the entire output of pacman -Q

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[root@EndeavourOS /]# $ pacman -Q                              
acl 2.3.2-1
archlinux-keyring 20240709-1
argon2 20190702-6
attr 2.5.2-1
audit 4.0.2-1
base 3-2
bash 5.2.032-1
binutils 2.43+r4+g7999dae6961-1
brotli 1.1.0-2
bzip2 1.0.8-6
ca-certificates 20240618-1
ca-certificates-mozilla 3.103-1
ca-certificates-utils 20240618-1
coreutils 9.5-1
cryptsetup 2.7.4-1
curl 8.9.1-2
dbus 1.14.10-2
dbus-broker 36-4
dbus-broker-units 36-4
dbus-units 36-4
device-mapper 2.03.26-1
diffutils 3.10-1
e2fsprogs 1.47.1-4
expat 2.6.2-1
file 5.45-1
filesystem 2024.04.07-1
findutils 4.10.0-1
gawk 5.3.0-1
gcc-libs 14.2.1+r32+geccf707e5ce-1
gdbm 1.24-1
gettext 0.22.5-1
glib2 2.80.5-1
glibc 2.40+r16+gaa533d58ff-2
gmp 6.3.0-2
gnupg 2.4.5-4
gnutls 3.8.7-1
gpgme 1.23.2-6
grep 3.11-1
gzip 1.13-4
hwdata 0.385-1
iana-etc 20240814-1
icu 75.1-1
iproute2 6.10.0-2
iptables 1:1.8.10-2
iputils 20240117-1
jansson 2.14-4
json-c 0.17-2
kbd 2.6.4-1
keyutils 1.6.3-3
kmod 33-3
krb5 1.21.3-1
libarchive 3.7.4-1
libassuan 3.0.0-1
libbpf 1.4.3-1
libcap 2.70-1
libcap-ng 0.8.5-2
libelf 0.191-4
libevent 2.1.12-4
libffi 3.4.6-1
libgcrypt 1.11.0-2
libgpg-error 1.50-1
libidn2 2.3.7-1
libksba 1.6.7-1
libldap 2.6.8-1
libmnl 1.0.5-2
libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9-2
libnfnetlink 1.0.2-2
libnftnl 1.2.7-1
libnghttp2 1.62.1-1
libnghttp3 1.5.0-1
libnl 3.10.0-1
libnsl 2.0.1-1
libp11-kit 0.25.5-1
libpcap 1.10.4-2
libpsl 0.21.5-2
libsasl 2.1.28-5
libseccomp 2.5.5-3
libsecret 0.21.4-1
libssh2 1.11.0-1
libsysprof-capture 46.0-4
libtasn1 4.19.0-2
libtirpc 1.3.5-1
libunistring 1.2-1
libusb 1.0.27-1
libverto 0.3.2-5
libxcrypt 4.4.36-2
libxml2 2.13.3-1
licenses 20240728-1
linux 6.10.6.arch1-1
linux-api-headers 6.10-1
linux-firmware 20240809.59460076-1
linux-firmware-whence 20240809.59460076-1
linux-headers 6.10.6.arch1-1
lmdb 0.9.33-1
lz4 1:1.10.0-2
mpfr 4.2.1-4
ncurses 6.5-3
nettle 3.10-1
npth 1.7-1
openssl 3.3.1-1
p11-kit 0.25.5-1
pacman 6.1.0-3
pacman-mirrorlist 20240717-1
pahole 1:1.27-2
pam 1.6.1-2
pambase 20230918-2
pciutils 3.13.0-1
pcre2 10.44-1
pinentry 1.3.1-5
popt 1.19-1
procps-ng 4.0.4-3
psmisc 23.7-1
readline 8.2.013-1
sed 4.9-3
shadow 4.16.0-1
sqlite 3.46.1-1
systemd 256.5-1
systemd-libs 256.5-1
systemd-sysvcompat 256.5-1
tar 1.35-2
tpm2-tss 4.0.1-1
tzdata 2024a-2
util-linux 2.40.2-1
util-linux-libs 2.40.2-1
wget 1.24.5-3
xz 5.6.2-1
zlib 1:1.3.1-2
zstd 1.5.6-1

if this is a list of all programs on the install, then it is a couple too few.