LEAD ME DOWN ANOTHER RABBIT HOLE WITH OBTUSE NON-EXPLANATIONS, I DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
oh you just gotta append some initrd= options to the boot loader or whatever, tehee :troll:
WELL HOW THE FUCK DO I DO THAT?? I WILL FIND YOU
Thanks for the tip. I figured I’d just do another Manjaro install since that’s what I’m familiar with, but now for some reason even after I formatted the drive and installed a different OS on it, when choosing it as boot drive it’s still titled Arch Linux and fails to boot.
Sorry about all the whining, this just hasn’t been my day and I need to vent a bit
installing arch put grub on either the mbr or esp of your disk. its the mbr if youre using mbr partition scheme and esp if youre using the newer guid scheme.
i bet when you reinstalled something else you didn’t delete your partitions and re-initialize the disk or however they refer to it now.
you ought to be able to fix that by deleting your partition table and reinstalling using the installation media for what youre trying to install.
e: in the case this doesn’t work youre using efi microcode on your motherboard and i can walk you out of the woods at the end of my shift after midnight.
The drive name in boot menu is determined by what you use in grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=GRUB the GRUB at the end gives it the name and the esp is the directory with boot files, typically /boot. If you like Manjaro, I would probably try to stick with Arch if you want to know your system, it is pretty good distro and AUR is much better there.
Thanks for the info, it did indeed change the drive name. Tried redoing the whole arch install, but it’s still giving me a “no such device” and “unknown filesystem” when I try to boot. Seems like the UUID is wrong or something
Hard to tell what is wrong from that. I would guess that you skipped some part of the grub configuration. Make sure you do the grub-install above and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (or wherever your efi directory is). Plus make sure your disk is formatted with GPT (if you are using fdisk just make sure you start with g command that will create new GPT partition table).
Btw this all assumes you are using GRUB, but if you don’t have any reason not to I would recommend using it, it is the most common bootloader.
(Btw I have to say Arch installation guide seems to be much less straightforward than I remember)
But shouldn’t that be stored on the drive I’m installing the OS on? I figured it would be cleared when formatting
As far as I understand, when you use this command, it also writes to memory on the motherboard itself. So even formatting won’t do anything. The boot option will not work, but it will still be there.
Btw just out of curiosity where did you find mention of initrd options in arch installation guide, I just took a quick look and didn’t see it there.
