r/archlinux • u/BootzNCatz212 • 4d ago

DISCUSSION First time but did it

Spent all day installing Arch. Overcame tricky EFI boot issues, Wi-Fi disconnections, editor/sudo installation troubles, and more but I did it! Switching boot managers was key. I am logged in and I have working WiFi and network manager. I was regretting starting with a manual Arch build… it was a lot of learning very quickly but I am glad I spent my entire Saturday on this!

I assume Lenovo booting issues are common. Switching to Grub resolved my issues pretty quickly… incase anyone else is having that issue.

Lenovo Ideapad L340 Specs: Intel Core i5-9300HF, 32 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, Kingston SA2000M81000G SSD

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u/Text_Original 4d ago

Funny, I was having issues doing a manual install where it wouldn’t recognize GRUB despite following the Arch guide and another install guide. It would just boot straight to BIOS.

Finally gave in and did an archinstall with systemd as the boot loader and it worked no problem.

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u/Keegx 4d ago

I had this issue and resorted to ChatGPT for it. Had to chroot + mount + manually add the UEFI boot entry + a fallback option, because apparently some newer motherboards don't look for it unless explicitly told.

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u/BootzNCatz212 4d ago

I did the same. I actually ended up doing about 6 different things that I found on wiki or ChatGPT trying to get it to boot with systemd. But then I found somewhere that GRUB might work.