Unable To Boot into CachyOS

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Oh yeah .. I knew I was forgetting something.

Maybe this will catch you early enough.

Maybe it will just be funny to see when you are done.

But we want the Partition Table to preferably be GPT and not MBR.

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I did that. It is GPT. I also put the root flag on the root partition because I been having a feeling it’s been messing that up as well because I saw boot file name in the root files.

Gparted says it’s already flagged as ESP. I wonder if it’s because I flagged the other one as root?

Shall I restart and see what happens or…? Because I’m unable to look into that file and see what it all has.

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I just restarted and it was still not recognized in the UEFI. Am I completely missing something?

I’m looking through the files and I dont see any files in any of the folders.

I’m looking at partition manager and it’s saying a mount point isnt found, efi doesnt exist, and it’s only flag is boot

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i think some optoins in your Uefi motherboard failback to CSM / MBR mode

can you recheck in your UEFI motherboard

  • secureboot desactivated
  • no CSM
  • no legacy
  • no fastboot
  • all disks are ont AHCI ( not raid )

if you boot on USB , you should see
Uefi: < USB vendor name > < partition > → select this for boot UEFI

under live iso , you can check

inxi  -Fxza
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted -l
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Are you adding the boot flag to the /boot partition too?

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I am running Fastboot on my system right now, it does not cause issues with CSM or MBR.

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This point has not be tested on all hardware at this time

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I just tried installing refind and it didnt actually install the boot files. I checked it by using refind-install and it had to install the files that way. I tried restarting, still nothing. Half my files arent even installed. All it’s doing is speed tests.

August 31, never finished this “I went through the file system a bit in dolphin and I dont see any files installed. When I did do install-refind, it installed the boot files, but as I said previously, those files do not stick. I havent been checking the efibootmgr because again, I’m not linux savvy. I dont know how to get the efibootmgr to point to the /boot files.”

I should explain further, when I looked at the boot files, I noticed that on the first installation, there was nothing there. When I did a manual installation by using the refind thing, I saw all the files there after it went through installing the files. I then proceeded to restart my PC and it did not load into the OS, instead it said there was no boot manager. I launched the live OS and it said there was no boot files. After that I just reinstalled windows 11. Now I’m running windows 11, I just bought a CS900 SATA SSD to try and install cachyos on a fresh drive and hopefully that works. Also, this was done using the MX500 1TB SATA SSD.

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Hi, i have the same error, can i upload my bugreport here?

Thank you so much experts

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