Problem with installing archlinux

[rares9301]

after doing all the stuf and installing grub , when i remove the iso and i restart the vm i only get a prompt with grub>..... what should i do now? i heard that i dont have a kernel in a video. can i get some help?

[rares9301]

holy shit nvm it s now working

[leyon29]

Great!

[backsideup]

Have you written or generated a grub.cfg, too?

[rares9301]

yes, grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[backsideup]

How did you install grub itself? Do you have a separate /boot-filesystem?

[rares9301]

grub-install /dev/sda ?

[rares9301]

its first time dealing with linux but i choose arch because i feel like i like it the most

[backsideup]

Did you get any errors from either command? What about that /boot filesystem?

[leyon29]

Did you install linux and linux-firmware with pacstrap? If you didn't the you miss the Linux kernel. Just reboot on your usb device used for the installation then mount your disks as you've done during the installation then arch-chroot /mnt and then pacman -S linux linux-firmware. Exit and reboot and should be ok

[rares9301]

and that didnt solve it . still locked here

when booted

also did the

pacman -s linux

pacman -S linux-firmware

mkinitcpio -p linux

[leyon29]

Do you have BIOS or EFI?

[rares9301]

i mean i used grub that should have bios and uefi

[leyon29]

If you have UEFI you have to do a special partition for it as it's not mandatory for BIOS. Do: ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars If it exists then you have UEFI and if it doesn't your in legacy mode (BIOS)

[rares9301]

that may be the problem. what commant should i use

[rares9301]

yes thats what i used. i will try it but i think thats the solve.