My Linux mint pc just crashed because I was moving a lot of files from the home folder to the root directory. I got error that the drive is getting full. After clicking show error my pc rebooted and there was an error something like “can’t create user journal no space left” I’ve been running mint for 4 years now. But arch for 2 years on my laptop (hyprland) and main pc (kde). So for this pc I thought why not also arch. Put the install drive in and booted and got this fancy screen. I’ve never seen this screen so nice. Why is that, I always just saw the text.
Thought op was going to tell us how he accidentally installed arch
“You thought you were installing Mint, but it was me, Arch!”
Idk exactly why this is the case, but it’s telling you that you’re not booting with UEFI; that one is just a black screen. Maybe it’s just an old thing from Arch’s earlier days?
You can have GRUB menu on boot with UEFI.
Only shows black screen if you disable the boot menu, some distros hide the menu by default, even with BIOS.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Hidden_menuBut that one clearly shows BIOS
That sounds possible, I’m using an old lenovo workstation. With a fresh boot usb.
To bad uefi doesn’t show graphics like this.
Last time I installed Arch it used systemd-boot which only shows text. If you use grub in UEFI mode you can get those graphics too.
Coz you booted in BIOS mode, arch iso has a different boot menu for EFI and BIOS mode.
I strongly advise that your PC supports BIOS/Legacy mode, use that instead of stupid overcomplicated, buggy UEFI crap.
I guess UEFI is useful if you want to use secure boot or PCI pass through, otherwise there’s no reason to make your life painful by using UEFI, just install grub to the MBR and it just works, no need for complicated UEFI dirs, and add the UEFI vars to the device firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting, and ofc installing to the removable path doesn’t work either…
My god, I hate UEFI with passion.
firmware that get automatically deleted every time you swap hard drives and then the system stops booting
Wait… That’s what happend to me and wasn’t able to find any solution on the web.
Any idea to solve this issue when swapping hard drives?
I don’t quite remember, but I think the color and pizazz was added around the time the (with speech) option was added.
Maybe this came with the installation script
