Systemd-Boot (gummiboot)
Make sure “/boot” is mounted on your efi boot partition i.e /dev/sda1.
# pacman -S efibootmgr # bootctl --path=/boot install
After installing boot loader, configure systemd-boot loader defaults, skip it if you have chosen GRUB
# nano /boot/loader/loader.conf
Change file as below, skip if you have installed GRUB
default arch timeout 3 editor 0
Copy default arch entry to boot loader entries, skip if you have installed GRUB
# cp /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/arch.conf /boot/loader/entries/
Add root PARTUUID to arch boot entry, skip if you have installed GRUB
To get PARTUUID of your root partition use blkid
# blkid /dev/sda3
Command above will output something similar to
/dev/sda3: UUID="4c746b66-9a47-4938-9710-3f5b65238d89" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="b9a3b9c1-0f4b-4be1-9ea9-4ed503b6c49a"
in that case we need
PARTUUID="b9a3b9c1-0f4b-4be1-9ea9-4ed503b6c49a"
Add this to arch entry, skip if you have installed GRِِUB
# nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf
Change
options root=PARTUUID=xxxx...
to following, and replace xxxx with your PARTUUID
options root=PARTUUID=b9a3b9c1-0f4b-4be1-9ea9-4ed503b6c49a rootfstype=ext4 add_efi_memmap rw
Make Sure you have following two files located in your /boot directory
vmlinuz-linux
initramfs-linux.img
If above two files are there that means bootloader was successfully installed.
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