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
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.