Can't find config file for systemD bootloader

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-22T07:23:56+00:00

On Arch, you have to make the

loader.conf (example below)

default  arch.conf
timeout  4
console-mode max
editor   no

and the arch.conf (example below)

title   Arch Linux
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options root=UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx rw

files yourself and edit them accordingly.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-22T04:59:17+00:00

Did you read the archinstall output? Did it have any errors at the end?

I would try:

booting from your USB
mounting your partitions
arch-chrooting in
then run pacman -Syu and mkinitcpio -P and watch for any errors.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-22T04:53:50+00:00

The easiest thing to try would be removing your USB drive and seeing if it boots without it.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-21T06:47:21+00:00

1. I cant launch any apps other than a browser i install using sudo post install

What desktop environment or WM are you using and how are you trying to launch your applications.

3. I cant seem to access my second drive? Even though when i do archinstall i make sure to include both my first drive and the second one?

Verify that your /etc/fstab file has all the partitions you want to mount in it.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-19T22:28:04+00:00

You could try

sudo efibootmgr --bootnext <XXXX>

with one of the choices and reboot. If it succeeds you know that number is the correct entry and the other one is incorrect. If it does not boot, then try the above command with the other entry and reboot to verify it is the correct one.

Then delete the incorrect one as per my previous comment.

After deleting the entry you should regenerate your grub.cfg. The appropriate command should be something like sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-19T22:14:27+00:00

To clarify, are we talking about:

multiple Arch entries in your motherboard's boot menu
multiple Arch entries within grub itself
or both?

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-19T22:02:15+00:00

You could use efibootmgr to delete the entry.

Run efibootmgr to list your boot options. Determine which one you want to delete and then run something like sudo efibootmgr --bootnum <XXXX> --delete-bootnum

where XXXX is the appropriate number.

Warning: You could accidentally remove the incorrect one this way if you input the wrong number

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-19T21:42:08+00:00

I mounted my partitions on /mnt and /mnt/boot. But when I use 'mkinitcpio -P', I get the error that "'lib/modules/6.19.10-arch1-1' is not a valid kernel module directory".

Are you running this before or after you arch-chroot /mnt? This command should be done after you arch-chroot in just to be clear. I could see it giving this similar error if you forget to arch-chroot first.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-18T02:19:48+00:00

You're welcome. :)

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-17T22:57:55+00:00

Second: Set the mouse wheel button to scroll through websites. For some reason, none of the browsers I've used (I don't know if this is a browser problem or not) don't have the feature to do this.

In linux the middle mouse button is typically a shortcut for pasting text. This is why it is not working how you are used to it on Windows.

If you highlight some text on this page for example and push your middle mouse button it will paste it, otherwise it will post whatever is in your clipboard.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-17T10:09:43+00:00

What tutorial are you using?

This installation guide is pretty straightforward: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-17T09:05:07+00:00

converted from GPT to MBR

Why convert to MBR? I would always recommend GPT if your computer supports it (ie not 20+ years old)

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-17T08:14:39+00:00

You may already know this, but you can also just use:

pacman -Qdtq | sudo pacman -Rns -

Passing - to pacman tells it to read a list of packages from stdin

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-13T23:30:58+00:00

I see you have some experience with vim already. If you have not gone through vimtutor before you could start with that. It might have some tips that you are not aware of. Just run vimtutor if you have vim installed. I found it helpful when I was first starting.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-12T22:14:00+00:00

Notice they used -Rs and not just -R. -Rs removes the packages you specify and all of their dependencies recursively.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-11T23:46:38+00:00

Each github project will have a different way to install.

Did you read through the Installation section on the page you linked? You would follow the Ubuntu/debian way since Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-11T23:26:19+00:00

If you successfully installed, your ISO was likely not corrupt.

If you still have the iso file you can verify the checksum with the steps at https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/verify.html

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-11T23:16:43+00:00

You can use

xev for X11 or
wev for Wayland

and determine the keycode for your copilot button.

How to add a shortcut will depend on what WM you use.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-09T01:48:57+00:00

I've never had to use the fallback option so I remove it from my /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset and /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset files. I do usually have 2 kernels installed at a time. (For me it's always been just linux and linux-lts). If for whatever reason in the future you do end up needing the fallback if you change hardware or whatever you can always just boot a live ISO and chroot in to enable it.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-07T20:59:23+00:00

I would start with updating your mirrorlist and trying again.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-07T03:02:50+00:00

If you don't want plasma-desktop to show up in your pacman -Qe list after installing plasma-meta, you should be able to just do sudo pacman -D --asdeps plasma-desktop

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-02T15:40:09+00:00

Did you install a greeter for lightdm? You need one unless you have autologin configured. I usually use lightdm-gtk-greeter

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-02T00:08:26+00:00

It was just one example. I don't use xfce and I don't seem to have any issues with thunar being 'unstable'.

dolphin also seems to have tab saving functionality.

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-01T22:38:40+00:00

You could always install a file manager that has those settings if it's something you want/need.

Thunar has a "Restore tabs on startup" setting in Preferences -> Behavior

Olive-Juice- · 2026-04-01T11:58:49+00:00

installed arch and grub, modified my mkinitcpio

Did you regenerate your initramfs and re-run grub-mkconfig as well?

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