Cannot boot up after installation

@nals
As @2000 has said you just need to boot on the live ISO. Do not start the installer yet. Go to the start menu and launch gparted. You want to use device, create partition table. In the drop down menu you want to select GPT and click apply and create a new GPT partition. This will completely wipe out the disk. Then close gparted and start the installer and use erase disk and select hibernate with swap or swap to file. It’s your choice. Follow the prompts and select the online install and select the desktop you want to install and complete all the necessary steps required and then start the install process.

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rick,
did as per your instructions
gparted device partition table, gpt from the dropdown, apply
then installer, online version, erase disk option and xfce desktop.

still get the same eroor : cannot find UUID xxxx message

ran the various commands that manuel wants info on, but everything has

mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/root/.config/eos-sendlog.XXXXX’: No such file or directory
mv: missing destination file operand after '/root/.config/eos-sendlog.txt'
Try 'mv --help' for more information.
/usr/bin/eos-sendlog: line 56: /root/.config/eos-sendlog.txt: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/eos-sendlog: line 57: /root/.config/eos-sendlog.txt: No such file or directory

install log

http://ix.io/2P6w

inxi -Mz

http://ix.io/2P6z

lsblk -fm | eos-sendlog

http://ix.io/2P6A

sudo fdisk -l | eos-sendlog

http://ix.io/2P6B

cat /etc/fstab | eos-sendlog

http://ix.io/2P6C

sudo cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | eos-sendlog

http://ix.io/2P6D

Although it still has the wrong UUID at least maybe it installed in UEFI with GPT. Maybe now @manuel can make some sense of it. Give them time as they are quite busy also.

Hello @nals I am looking at the logs and it looks correct to me now. The disk is GPT and the partitions are correct. I also looked at the fstab & the command lsblk -fm. It looks like the same UUID to me. I don’t know about the rest of the grub file if there is something not right. Hopefully @manuel will get a chance to look at this or one of the others.

I also just want to make sure you have secure boot disabled in UEFI?

yes is disabled

What is the exact message when you boot up the computer now?

Starting Version 247.31-1-arch
Error: device /'UUID=8c5fbc84-d85d-46a7-8052-5cfebb882d2e' not found. skiping fsck
mount: /new root: cannot find UUID=8c5fbc84-d85d-46a7-8052-5cfebb882d2e.
you are now being dropped to an emergency shell.
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
(rootfs /#_
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Are you able to do another arch-chroot into the system and see what this shows?

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

I guess i would like to see if it shows the same UUID or something different.

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

http://ix.io/2P7C

Okay so this confirms it’s the same UUID as far as i can see. :thinking:

This iine (the interesting part of command lsblk -fm):

nvme0n1p2 ext4 1.0 8c5fbc84-d85d-46a7-8052-5cfebb882d2e  884.2G 1% /mnt 953.6G

is strange.

It shows that after install almost 70GB is already used. EndeavourOS takes much less space.

So there is something wrong. I suspect the RST stuff, it looks like not being disabled.

When these laptops are new they have an Intel Rst driver installed and you can remove the driver but i wonder if there is some firmware on these drives that is the issue. In Windows things are different. Turning off Rst in Windows doesn’t affect anything other than removing the Raid status.

I had a thought that maybe we could bypass the uuid by using refind.

sudo pacman -S refind

refind-install

sudo cp /usr/share/endeavouros/EndeavourOS-icon.png /boot/efi/EFI/refind/icons/os_endeavourOS.png

Then reboot. What do you think?

Edit: Also requires going into UEFI and set the boot order to refind.

I don’t know much about RST, but I think using another bootloader might not help.
But doesn’t hurt to try I guess.

I just thought because it boots directly from the image the UUID becomes a non factor?

Maybe. Trying it will solve the mystery. :wink:

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What does sudo parted -l (that’s the letter l not the number 1) return?

@nals
If you are willing to try refind as i have posted above and see if the system boots on it. These are the instructions and will test my theory. Not 100% it will work as i think but i use refind so lets see if you are game.

Edit2: I guess i forgot you’ll have to arch-chroot into the system first before you can install this set it up.

Edit: First install refind with these two commands one after the other.

sudo pacman -S refind

refind-install

Then copy the following and run in the terminal to set the Icon in refind to EndeavourOS.

sudo cp /usr/share/endeavouros/EndeavourOS-icon.png /boot/efi/EFI/refind/icons/os_endeavourOS.png

Then you have to reboot but you need to go into your UEFI setup and change the boot order to boot from refind and save it. Then close UEFI and boot up to refind where if it works should give you an icon to click on.

[root@archiso /]# sudo parted -l 
Model: TOSHIBA TransMemory (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 8015MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      92.2kB  67.2MB  67.1MB  primary  fat16        esp


Model: INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1024GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      2097kB  317MB   315MB   fat32              boot, esp
 2      317MB   1024GB  1024GB  ext4


[root@archiso /]# sudo parted -l
Model: TOSHIBA TransMemory (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 8015MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      92.2kB  67.2MB  67.1MB  primary  fat16        esp


Model: INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1024GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      2097kB  317MB   315MB   fat32              boot, esp
 2      317MB   1024GB  1024GB  ext4

@BONK

[root@archiso /]# sudo parted -l 
Model: TOSHIBA TransMemory (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 8015MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      92.2kB  67.2MB  67.1MB  primary  fat16        esp

Okay so what is this device? It has an esp on it? Is this part of the RST Intel Optane Memory? It has dos fat 16. :thinking:

What do think ?

that should be the live usb i am booted off from