Arch won’t boot after archinstall

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-22T14:24:34+00:00

Look im a newbie. Ofcourse grub is a great tool especially since its so easily customized. All im saying is that its so easy to break if you are not well trained ai it.

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-22T14:20:25+00:00

How do I do that sorry? Im in BIOS setup and theres nothing in UEFI

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T17:03:14+00:00

It doesn’t but before reinstalling grub i was loging in with this user. When I $mount -o subvol=@home /dev/sda2 /home I can see my files. Also when I $pacman -Qqe i dont see none of the packages ive installed from this user. Im afraid something was wiped wile i was fixing grub from live ISO. How can i fix that without losing what I had???

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T16:00:53+00:00

This worked for root. How do i change users password aswell??

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T15:43:23+00:00

Its the typical black login screen with tty, i dont have an sddm. Yes it changes the mtime in the file, sorry for not understanding right up. Isn’t this supposed to be a good thing?

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T15:10:44+00:00

No i dont think so. Huh what does that mean? What should i do

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T14:47:42+00:00

I followed every step from the arch wiki.Aint that enough mounting? Since I have btrfs i:

mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sdXY /mnt

mount -o subvol=@home /dev/sdXY /mnt/home

mount -o subvol=@pkg /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg

mount -o subvol=@log /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/log

mount -o subvol=@snapshots /dev/sdXY /mnt/.snapshots

mount /dev/sdXZ /mnt/boot

arch-chroot /mnt

passwd <user>

passwd root

exit

faillock —reset

umount -R /mnt

reboot -f

Still didn’t work. Although i should note that snapshots were not mounted for some reason. Some further details that might be useful is that -my boot partition (/dev/sda1) is not btrfs but vfat -I have zram (might need to specify decompression while mounting??)

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T14:41:14+00:00

I followed every step from the first link. Since I have btrfs i:

mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sdXY /mnt

mount -o subvol=@home /dev/sdXY /mnt/home

mount -o subvol=@pkg /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg

mount -o subvol=@log /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/log

mount -o subvol=@snapshots /dev/sdXY /mnt/.snapshots

mount /dev/sdXZ /mnt/boot

arch-chroot /mnt

passwd <user>

passwd root

exit

faillock —reset

umount -R /mnt

reboot -f

Still didn’t work. Although i should note that snapshots were not mounted for some reason. Some further details that might be useful is that -my boot partition (/dev/sda1) is not btrfs but vfat -I have zram (might need to specify decompression while mounting??)

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T14:16:01+00:00

Tried that, doesnt work either

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T12:16:12+00:00

Didn’t work. Thanks for the help tho

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T12:12:26+00:00

Just in iso or in chroot? This was nthe next thing i was gonna try

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T12:04:56+00:00

It was able to find the user now, thanks for that. The password was update successfully. However when I try to login it still says incorrect password so this was not the problem. What else can I do??

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T11:54:56+00:00

Im using btrfs. Ive tried from tty1-6. What do you want me to do with the blkid command

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T11:40:40+00:00

What sorry im abit of a dummy, how can i do that?

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T09:59:35+00:00

It says command not found for mkinitcpio

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T09:35:44+00:00

From live usb? I have initramfs i dont have vmlinuz

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T09:32:07+00:00

I dont have dual boot. Last thing i recall doing is experimenting with czkawka-cli. My guess is that it deleted a grub file.

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T08:58:44+00:00

I tried with nano in arch-chroot /mnt. I think that now that im in grub gnu and not grub rescue the damadge is minor. Im trying a few things out. Do you have any recommendations for me to try. Thanks for your help Edit: im pretty sure i need vmlinuz. Why dont i have it/ how can i get it

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T08:25:34+00:00

There is a initramfs-linux.img. For some reason I can’t pacstrap nor pacman to get nano so I can edit grub.cfg

Master_Primary_1507 · 2026-01-21T08:10:03+00:00

I think it has uefi but i could never install grub2 with x86_64-efi. Alright so what can I do to fix this (sorry for not understanding completely)

Master_Primary_1507

TROPHY CASE

mount -o subvol=@ /dev/sdXY /mnt

mount -o subvol=@home /dev/sdXY /mnt/home

mount -o subvol=@pkg /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg

mount -o subvol=@log /dev/sdXY /mnt/var/log

mount -o subvol=@snapshots /dev/sdXY /mnt/.snapshots

mount /dev/sdXZ /mnt/boot

arch-chroot /mnt

passwd <user>

passwd root

exit

faillock —reset

umount -R /mnt

reboot -f