archinstaller not installing Grub or systemd

[Trebor87]

archlinux-2024.12.01-x86_64.iso

The installation log

MB Fatal1ty H87 Performance
CPU: Intel i7-4770 (8) @ 3.900GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
Memory 16mB


Here are the logs
https://0x0.st/8s6Y.json
https://0x0.st/8s6E.txt

So Bug or an error somewhere ?

Best regards
Trevor

describe the problem

I've tried five times ton do a new installation using the ArchInstaller on a samsung SSD 860

This was a test for me, as getting ready for a new installation on a new PC coming soon, so not a problem as such for the moment

I tried selecting Grub three times and systemD twice

All installations were with XFCE as my choice of Desktop

I had no error messages and at the end of each installation had the message 'Installation completed without any errors

But when rebooting the PC the SSD is not seen by the Bios (for info before on the same SSD I had done a manual installation which worked perfectly, so it's not the SSD')

When rebooting from my standard Arch SSD and checking the Samsung 860 I see that The /run/media/trevor/97cc59ed-c527-4520-868a-b6dab10387c3/boot/ is empty no efi or grub folders or files

Here is the fstab " Static information about the filesystems. " " See fstab(5) for details. "

"

" " /dev/sda2 " UUID=97cc59ed-c527-4520-868a-b6dab10387c3 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1

" /dev/sda1 " UUID=3940-3706 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2

[svartkanin]

Please provide the log file

[Trebor87]

Hello

I thought that I had done that, sorry

Here are the logs files

https://0x0.st/8s6E.txt https://0x0.st/8s6Y.json

I also put them on my Pastebin just in case https://pastebin.com/KC201qCs https://pastebin.com/bnqccUvx

I'm away from home from today for 15 jours won't be able to help as won't have access to my Arch system

Best regards

[svartkanin]

According to the logs you have selected Grub and I can see that it was also installed

Installing grub bootloader
Installing packages: ['grub']

there were some fixes merged recently, could you potentially try the latest master ?

[pedrohqb]

It seems to be an issue, as per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=301920

[Trebor87]

Hello

Tested with the January iso, same problem, all seems to go well

But the bios doesn't see the HD

11 Jan 2025 06:11:32 Daniel Girtler @.***>:

According to the logs you have selected Grub and I can see that it was also installed

*Installing grub bootloader Installing packages: ['grub'] * there were some fixes merged recently, could you potentially try the latest master ?

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[svartkanin]

There has not been a new release, can you try it with the latest master

[Trebor87]

ran again with the 3.0.2

same problem my motherboard doesn't see the SSD with a bootloader

I'm installing a new MB later this week ASRock B650 Pro RS (AM5), so I'll try again with that

Here's my install log : https://pastebin.com/CqSfBfdU

A quick question if I may, I'm switching to AMD so what driver setup will I need as I've never used AMD before would it be Xfce : All open source default ?

Regards Trevor

If anyone reading this and is stuck as I was, the following worked for me

PS 1 : updated / installed the systemd after when I booted back into my existing arch setup on sda doing sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /boot sudo bootctl --path=/boot install And managed to boot from the setup on the sdb, probably not the perfect or proper way to do it, but the Bios sees the SDD as 'Linux Boot Manager' and it boots

PS 2 : as I'm still playing with this, so re ran the install and before rebooting, entered; sudo efibootmgr --create --disk /dev/sda --part 1 --loader '\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi' --label "Linux Boot Manager" --unicode (For info I run the install from a USB so my SSD was sda)

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 at 21:18, Daniel Girtler @.***> wrote:

There has not been a new release, can you try it with the latest master

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[Trebor87]

I have now just installed a new motherboard and the Arch Installer works fine all by itself, so this bug seems to be linked to the MB or it's Bios

Can supply more details if needed