Hello all, I’m new here but not to arch, I’m kind of a beginner though. I started with Linux Mint cinnamon since when the version was 18, and I’ve used it for about 5 or so years. My friend of mine said, you should try Garuda. He said, everything is GUI. I have never been an arch user before, but I said, sure I’ll try it. I’ve used the distro called Garuda that I like, it’s arch based, and the flavor is cinnamon about 6 or 7 months ago, but they haven’t had a maintainer for cinnamon for a little while, probably a month or so. So, I went to Garuda KDE Gaming Edition. And that’s what I had. I’ve had a few problems with Linux Mint, mostly the grub/bootloader error. And my friend knew that, but I said ok, but everything worked out fine. It installed fine, even the bootloader, (which I thought might hit me again) but it didn’t. I installed Garuda cinnamon and Garuda KDE and I haven’t had an issue. Until now, when I was trying to install Manjaro Cinnamon. I had the same issue, the grub/bootloader error. My friend and I were trying to figure it out. Been trying for about 5 days now. We tried erasing the partition, manually installation, we even tried replacing the partition. Nothing worked. We tried a few links saying they fixed it that way, for me, didn’t work. So, then I said, well I’ll just go back to Garuda since it worked. But I installed it, but that dreaded bootloader hit me. So, I’m dumbfounded. So, that’s why I came to the forums. I know you guys don’t do Ubuntu/Debian, but I’m going to post/code in what I did to get Linux Mint installed. You can take it out if it’s not suitable for this. Sorry if it is. This is what I did…
sudo mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-system-adjustments
apt install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64-signed
sudo os-prober
sudo update-grub
exit
I know you are probably going to ask me to put in the command ‘parted’, so here it is…
[manjaro@manjaro-cinnamon ~]$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD10JPVX-60J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2097kB 317MB 315MB fat32 boot, esp
2 317MB 991GB 990GB btrfs root
3 991GB 1000GB 9449MB linux-swap(v1) swap
Model: USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
2 3093MB 3097MB 4194kB primary esp
[manjaro@manjaro-cinnamon ~]$
And efibootmgr…
[manjaro@manjaro-cinnamon ~]$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Notebook Hard Drive - WDC WD10JPVX-60JC3T0
Boot0001* USB Hard Drive - USB
Boot0002* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - USB
Boot2001* USB Drive (UEFI)
Boot2002* Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive (UEFI)
Boot3000* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
Boot3001* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
Boot3002* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
Boot3003* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
Boot3004* Internal Hard Disk or Solid State Disk
[manjaro@manjaro-cinnamon ~]$