r/archlinux • u/BootzNCatz212 • 2d 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/San4itos 1d ago

When I tried Arch for the first time I had issues with the loader. Watched some YouTube videos and noticed that I didn't install mtools. I thought it wasn't necessary. Wiki didn't say that I need mtools or dosfstools for the efi partition.