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Facing problem while botting Arch Linux in my laptop

I have an old laptop dell inspiron i3 7th gen, 4gb RAM. so i completely removed windows 10 software and want to install arch and start using it...so i did everything and installed using a pen drive...but when i boot through pendrive its booting successfully...wereas when i boot without pendrive its not booting...fix this problem and guide me pls..

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Try the arch linux forums, they're probably going to be more helpful.

Newbie forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=23

Installation issues forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=17

What do you mean by "it's not booting"?

I've had some Dell Latitudes that would maybe boot Arch, couldn't tell, because the boot process ended up with a completely black screen. I now use the "linux-zen" kernel on Latitude laptops because that kernel never caused a black scree.

You might have installed the bootloader to the pendrive. It might be easier for you to re-install and pay attention to the steps better while knowing which drives and partitions are which.

I’m gonna do you one better than sending you to the arch forums, but because you were posting on the hacker news forum about arch I am not going to baby you more than the arch forum would. I’m not going to define any of these words that I’m about to use. I am only going to tell you what you needed to do. It is on you to understand and do it.

Did you set up your file system table correctly?

You needed to edit /etc/fstab to point /boot to the partition UUID for your bootloader partition and the “/“ root level to the partition id of the root partition. You can get the partition ids using the blkid command.

The reason I ask this first is that it is common for users when setting up their first arch install to use /dev/sdx where x is a,b,c etc. as that’s how drives are assigned.

Noobs (including myself the first few times) will use the guest (pen drive) operating system’s device path assignments in the fstab, leading to failure when the installed boot drive is /dev/sdb1 under the guest OS but is recognized as /dev/sda1 on boot with the pendrive removed.

No matter what installation of Linux reads the partition ID of the drive, it should remain the same, meaning that if you carried that drive into another computer with multiple drives and selected that drive as boot it would still boot correctly.

If you use the device path method, if you plug that drive into another computer with multiple drives, it will be assigned a different device path and probably not boot.

If it’s not that, give us more information.

Bios no drive error? Nothing but a blinking cursor? A kernel level error complaining about a missing root? Did you install the intel-ucode package and add it to the boot loader entry before the kernel load?

Godspeed. Fuck Windows.

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Maybe Arch is not an ideal distro for you.

I tried about a dozen different distros over the years before I had enough experience to know what works best for me.

For what it is worth, I think Ubuntu probably offers the easiest transition from Windows.

And using it will still require a substantial learning curve because it is still very much a Linux experience...don't worry you can still break the bootloader and learn Grub. Have to configure your touchpad at a low level. And be baffled by /dev, ~/.config, /usr/bin versus /bin.

Good luck.

Which bootloader do you use?

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