EOS boot fails, goes to BIOS

[alama]

Not sure what category to post this in as not sure what the problem is. I’m guessing a kernel issue could be involved, but not certain so I’ll just post it here.
For some time I’ve been installing EOS on older laptops for individuals with disabilities. It’s worked pretty well. Recently someone who can’t hear handed me such a computer, a Dell Latitude E5430 that I installed Endeavor on over a year ago. My sign language is rudimentary, so communication is lacking, but what I gathered is he tried to update the computer, which he does at least weekly, but instead of rebooting, the Dell logo appears and a firmware message appears. Clicking Enter the Dell logo appears once more and boots into the BIOS. There it remains.
I remember a similar scenario from last summer, so I thought to try a similar fix and chroot into the OS. I booted from an older EOS 23 USB stick I had handy. Either lsblk or fdisk -l shows the expected devices. Trying to mount by
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt yields mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type ‘ext4’.
arch-chroot at the moment doesn’t seem a possibility.

Would anyone have a clue as to what happened or how to proceed?

[dalto]

Most likely they encountered this issue which means they had not updated in nearly a year.

The latest grub package update needs some manual intervention

(Grub 2:2.06.r322.gd9b4638c5-1) Grub Update Causing Unbootable OS On UEFI Systems A grub update today is causing boot issues on UEFI systems. It will make most systems unbootable so take care! with no intervention, the system will just boot directly into Firmware with no way to boot the OS. If you have this issue follow these instructions: First boot onto an EndeavourOS Live ISO. Ensure that you are booting the ISO via UEFI mode. Follow these instructions to chroot into your install: ht…

@alama

I booted from an older EOS 23 USB stick I had handy.

What is EOS 23?

@alama

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt yields mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type ‘ext4’.

Can you share the full input and output from the commands so we can help troubleshoot?

[alama]

Very sorry if confusing. When I posted the above yesterday I was in the middle of doing a lot of other stuff and didn’t go into detail. Thought I’d just get the ball rolling but apologies if that wasn’t the thing to do. Anyway, now I have a little more time. @dalto, EOS 23 I just read from what was printed on the USB stick. Should have been EOS 23-1, the month it was created. Today I created a USB with the latest Endeavor version to see if that would help. It did. I was able to use arch-chroot.

[root@EndeavourOS /]# stat -c %w /
2023-01-08 08:59:46.000000000 -1000

tells me that I installed Endeavour January this year. So “The latest grub package update…” couldn’t be the issue.
Also:

[root@EndeavourOS /]# update-grub
bash: update-grub: command not found

[root@EndeavourOS /]# pacman -Ss grub
core/grub 2:2.06.r499.ge67a551a4-1
    GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (2)
extra/breeze-grub 5.27.5-1
    Breeze theme for GRUB
community/grub-btrfs 4.12-2
    Include btrfs snapshots in GRUB boot options
community/grub-customizer 5.2.3-1
    A graphical grub2 settings manager
community/grub-theme-vimix 20190605-2
    A blur theme for grub
community/python-markdown 3.4.3-2
    Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown
community/ruby-rdiscount 2.2.7-1
    Fast Implementation of Gruber's Markdown in C
community/ruby-titlecase 0.1.1+13+1d6b4f7-5
    Ruby version of John Gruber's TitleCase.pl

would indicate grub is not even installed. Perhaps the January 2003 release used system-boot. I’m not up to date on system-boot but need to be, so help is appreciated. From chroot I can’t determine whether system-boot might be active:

[root@EndeavourOS /]# systemctl --state=active
Running in chroot, ignoring command 'list-units'

If I could determine if system-boot was in use as boot loader, then I might want to shine the light in that direction for troubleshooting.
Here is some more stuff to look at:

[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.2.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.2.8-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      2000         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1995         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1990         -
# 4  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1984         -
# 5  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%      1981         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1974         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1973         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1969         -
# 9  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1963         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1956         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1950         -
#12  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1943         -
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1936         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1932         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1926         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1920         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1918         -
#18  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1914         -
#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1910         -
#20  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1903         -
#21  Short offline       Completed without error       00%      1897         -

[root@EndeavourOS /]# uname -a
Linux EndeavourOS 6.2.8-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:52:35 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Hope this can narrow things down a bit.
Thanks!

[dalto]

Oh, if you are using systemd-boot, check this from a chroot:

pacman -Qq | grep "^linux"

If it returns one or more kernel packages, try running reinstall-kernels from the chroot.

[alama]

This was the result of that. It seemed lots of packages couldn’t be installed:

[root@EndeavourOS /]# pacman -Qq | grep "^linux"
linux
linux-api-headers
linux-firmware
linux-firmware-whence
linux-headers
linux-zen
linux-zen-headers
[root@EndeavourOS /]# reinstall-kernels
Installing kernel 6.3.2-arch1-1
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --no-hostonly-cmdline -f /boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img 6.3.2-arch1-1
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command 'biosdevname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 70-persistent-net.rules
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: ostree ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: Mode:                     real
dracut: Method:                   sha256
dracut: Files:                    777
dracut: Linked:                   2 files
dracut: Compared:                 0 xattrs
dracut: Compared:                 40 files
dracut: Saved:                    356.65 KiB
dracut: Duration:                 0.009702 seconds
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Using microcode found in '/boot/intel-ucode.img' ***
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img' done ***
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --no-hostonly --force /boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img 6.3.2-arch1-1
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fcoemon' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fcoeadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nbd' will not be installed, because command 'nbd-client' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nfs' depends on 'network', which can't be installed
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command 'biosdevname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: modsign ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: btrfs ***
dracut: *** Including module: crypt ***
dracut: *** Including module: dm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-dm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 55-dm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
dracut: *** Including module: lvm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 56-lvm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-lvm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: mdraid ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-md-raid.rules
dracut: *** Including module: nvdimm ***
dracut: *** Including module: qemu ***
dracut: *** Including module: qemu-net ***
dracut: *** Including module: lunmask ***
dracut: *** Including module: resume ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: *** Including module: virtiofs ***
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: ostree ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: Mode:                     real
dracut: Method:                   sha256
dracut: Files:                    1986
dracut: Linked:                   8 files
dracut: Compared:                 0 xattrs
dracut: Compared:                 445 files
dracut: Saved:                    1.42 MiB
dracut: Duration:                 0.025916 seconds
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ***
dracut: *** Using microcode found in '/boot/intel-ucode.img' ***
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-arch1-1.img' done ***
Installing kernel 6.3.2-zen1-1-zen
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --hostonly --no-hostonly-cmdline -f /boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img 6.3.2-zen1-1-zen
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command 'biosdevname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 70-persistent-net.rules
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: ostree ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: Mode:                     real
dracut: Method:                   sha256
dracut: Files:                    777
dracut: Linked:                   2 files
dracut: Compared:                 0 xattrs
dracut: Compared:                 46 files
dracut: Saved:                    356.65 KiB
dracut: Duration:                 0.009616 seconds
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Using microcode found in '/boot/intel-ucode.img' ***
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img' done ***
dracut: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --no-hostonly --force /boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img 6.3.2-zen1-1-zen
dracut: dracut module 'dash' will not be installed, because command 'dash' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'mksh' will not be installed, because command 'mksh' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'busybox' will not be installed, because command 'busybox' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dbus-broker' will not be installed, because command 'dbus-broker' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'rngd' will not be installed, because command 'rngd' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmanctl' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'connman' will not be installed, because command 'connmand-wait-online' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'network-wicked' will not be installed, because command 'wicked' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'dmraid' will not be installed, because command 'kpartx' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'multipath' will not be installed, because command 'multipath' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'tpm2-tss' will not be installed, because command 'tpm2' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'cifs' will not be installed, because command 'mount.cifs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fcoemon' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe' will not be installed, because command 'fcoeadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'dcbtool' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'fipvlan' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'fcoe-uefi' will not be installed, because command 'lldpad' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsi-iname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsiadm' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'iscsi' will not be installed, because command 'iscsid' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nbd' will not be installed, because command 'nbd-client' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'nfs' depends on 'network', which can't be installed
dracut: dracut module 'nvmf' will not be installed, because command 'nvme' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'biosdevname' will not be installed, because command 'biosdevname' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'memstrack' will not be installed, because command 'memstrack' could not be found!
dracut: memstrack is not available
dracut: If you need to use rd.memdebug>=4, please install memstrack and procps-ng
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'mksquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: dracut module 'squash' will not be installed, because command 'unsquashfs' could not be found!
dracut: *** Including module: systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: systemd-initrd ***
dracut: *** Including module: modsign ***
dracut: *** Including module: i18n ***
dracut: *** Including module: btrfs ***
dracut: *** Including module: crypt ***
dracut: *** Including module: dm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-dm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 55-dm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
dracut: *** Including module: kernel-modules-extra ***
dracut: *** Including module: lvm ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 56-lvm.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 60-persistent-storage-lvm.rules
dracut: *** Including module: mdraid ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 64-md-raid.rules
dracut: *** Including module: nvdimm ***
dracut: *** Including module: qemu ***
dracut: *** Including module: qemu-net ***
dracut: *** Including module: lunmask ***
dracut: *** Including module: resume ***
dracut: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
dracut: *** Including module: terminfo ***
dracut: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 40-redhat.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-firmware.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 91-permissions.rules
dracut: Skipping udev rule: 80-drivers-modprobe.rules
dracut: *** Including module: virtiofs ***
dracut: *** Including module: dracut-systemd ***
dracut: *** Including module: ostree ***
dracut: *** Including module: usrmount ***
dracut: *** Including module: base ***
dracut: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
dracut: *** Including module: shutdown ***
dracut: *** Including modules done ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies ***
dracut: *** Installing kernel module dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies ***
dracut: *** Resolving executable dependencies done ***
dracut: *** Hardlinking files ***
dracut: Mode:                     real
dracut: Method:                   sha256
dracut: Files:                    1987
dracut: Linked:                   8 files
dracut: Compared:                 0 xattrs
dracut: Compared:                 451 files
dracut: Saved:                    1.42 MiB
dracut: Duration:                 0.025928 seconds
dracut: *** Hardlinking files done ***
dracut: *** Generating early-microcode cpio image ***
dracut: *** Constructing AuthenticAMD.bin ***
dracut: *** Using microcode found in '/boot/intel-ucode.img' ***
dracut: *** Store current command line parameters ***
dracut: *** Stripping files ***
dracut: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut: *** Creating image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img' ***
dracut: *** Creating initramfs image file '/boot/initramfs-6.3.2-zen1-1-zen.img' done ***

[dalto]

That output is all normal. It is just telling you what modules it is skipping. This is generally because they aren’t needed.

Try rebooting.

[alama]

Unfortunately booting still fails. As before, the Dell logo appears, then in the middle of a black screen is the message “Reboot Into Firmware Interface”. Hitting “Enter” the Dell logo again appears, and then the BIOS.
If you have any ideas, for example, how to restart system-boot services, I will give it a try. Else I am thinking of trying to re-install using the new release.

[dalto]

When you created the chroot, did you properly mount mount the EFI partition at /mnt/efi?

[alama]

No, I did not. What is the best way of going about doing that?

[dalto]

Can you share the output of sudo parted -l so we can see your disk layout?

[alama]

[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: ADATA SU800     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 2CEA4ADF-28DA-7541-87BC-68157F07DFE4

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       4096   2052095   2048000  1000M EFI System
/dev/sda2    2052096 481648511 479596416 228.7G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  481648512 500103449  18454938   8.8G Linux swap


Disk /dev/sdb: 7.23 GiB, 7759462400 bytes, 15155200 sectors
Disk model: DataTraveler 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x4d909e77

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *         64 3789951 3789888  1.8G  0 Empty
/dev/sdb2       3789952 4023423  233472  114M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)


Disk /dev/loop0: 1.69 GiB, 1819361280 bytes, 3553440 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ 

[dalto]

First mount /dev/sda2 at /mnt then mount /dev/sda1 at /mnt/efi. Then do sudo arch-chroot /mnt

Then run reinstall-kernels from the chroot.

It didn’t work last time because your EFI partition wasn’t mounted so the files were written to the wrong partition.

[alama]

Nice! It worked, and saves me the time of a re-install. I’m happy! Just two more questions:

1. Is there anything else I could do from the main install while I have the computer in front of me? I already updated the system.
   and
2. Any idea what might have brought on this problem so we can avoid it down the road?

Again thanks!

[dalto]

If you have already updated the system that is the most important thing.

It is hard to say what caused it without seeing the output from the update but in most cases it is caused by starting the update and stopping it before it finishes. Typically by powering off or rebooting while the update is running.