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First time arch installer here. I just installed arch with grub on a uefi laptop. Everything seemed fine until I rebooted and ended up in uefi settings instead of grub. The grub entry shows up in the boot options but the computer doesn't seem to care. What could be wrong?

I dont know what information is useful to narrow the problem down so just tell me what logs are necessary an I'll post them.

Edit: I tried installing using the archinstall script in case I misunderstood the install instructions, but still not booting. Tried both grub and systemd-boot. The laptop is an Asus vivobook S 14 model K3402Z and even though I have been running fedora on it for the last year I believe the issues have something to do with the laptop hardware.

Edit 2: The issue has been resolved. Turns out the step that ruined the install was when I formatted the NVME drive according to this section of the wiki it messed something up, so reverting that fixed everything.

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[–] user134450@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

is secure boot enabled in the firmware? ~~It is possible that you have a signed grub binary installed but the module signing is not yet rolled out.~~ Edit: my mistake: if you are using grub with shim then all the necessary modules need to be baked into the grub binary. maybe grub was not installed correctly?

[–] Cralder@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Secure boot is disabled, but I'm not sure what the second part of your comment means. Do you mean grub requires Secure Boot to work?

[–] user134450@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

no i was just adding that to explain that grub needs special steps to work with secure boot enabled. if secure boot is off you can ignore that part.

[–] Cralder@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

I have gone through the entire arch install process twice and the GRUB install maybe 5 times or so. Still the same. I tries installing to vritualbox before doing it on physical hardware and that booted fine so I suspect it might have something to do secure boot. I found this reddit thread that mentions "adding grub64x.efi to trusted in my bios through secure boot" but I'm not sure how to do that.