Do you have access to some other computer that does have internet access you could build it from?

And update-grub runs fine in the chroot which I assume writes to that partition

i mean, i could buy a t420 again.
but should i?

No I mean system76

It doesn’t if it isn’t mounted

They have new intel laptops with coreboot

i see i see, thanks!

Also I just realized my system is set up to boot in legacy mode so uefi shouldn’t be an issue

It isn’t, that’s the check of the filesystem referenced in the fstab that is

When I swapped out motherboards in my pc, I had to set it up this way because its an older platform and the uefi support is shoddy

Okay well the grub is reinstalled so I’ll reboot shortly to see if it works now

If you haven’t fixed the fstab it will not work

I did

And I have an fsck fail on the brand new uuid

At least now it doesnt auto reboot, gives me the chance to plop in my root password to fix it

Bloody hell the uuid is gone again, hmm maybe I flag it wrong?

I made it an ext4 fs to make sure I wouldn’t run into issues with it

Um, is that your efi boot partition? If so it absolutely must be fat, not ext4.

how can I make my RTL8811AU work in the base installer lol

I cant believe this

I simply deleted the line related to that partition in my fstab and it boots

Linux’s automagic is seriously awesome

https://news.itsfoss.com/nokia-notkia/

I have the drivers to build and install them but I do not have tools in the LiveISO to install them, this PC doesn’t have access to cable Internet so I need to get the USB Wi-Fi card running. any ideas?

Do you have access to some other computer that does have internet access you could build it from? If so you could modify a base install tarball via chroot and install everything you need. Then just unpack that tarball on that computer that doesn’t have internet.

https://t.me/artixlinux/480690

Here are 4 recent tarballs. Basically all you need to do is extract one, chroot into it. Install everything you need, build the kernel, etc. Then compress it, copy it to that computer and extract it into an new partition.

Or build a custom ISO with everything in it… but that is harder than just chrooting in and installing your packages and building the kernel module.

There is absolutely nothing magic

the sda partition is again empty without an id or other info, like in the pastebin

I just removed it from the fstab and it works

That’s normal if you didn’t touch it yeah

altho now pacman is whining about not being able to verify packages with pgp

Yeah there is nothing magic, you just added a random line in your fstab so removing it obviously fixes the thing

not even the keyring itself