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I have come across with an installation problem and I want to use the usb boot option to rescue my machine. I formatted the usb to be fat32 and execute the command dd bs=4M if=/path/to/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdx status=progress && sync. Everything went well and as far as I know, if I boot using UEFI this should be the steps to follow.

However, on booting I have:

Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI CD UEFI Shell x86_64_v1 UEFI Shell x86_64_v2 EFI Default Loader Reboot Into Firmware Interface

I think I should select option number 1, but this reboots the machine and I end up again in the same menu. I know there should be everything fine with the EFI stuff, because that's how I installed archlinux. I checked the bios and I also see that it is nothing in secure mode (usb).

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  • To complete the question, I have my boot mode set to UEFI with Legacy OPROM; Secure boot: OFF Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 2:48
  • Could you try without "Legacy OPROM"? Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 6:19
  • I Johan, I figured out what at least solved the problem. I will post it. Thanks nonetheless. Commented Feb 8, 2017 at 17:44

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For all that you may suffer a similar thing, I solved it as follows.

It appears that formatting the usb with FAT32 is not enough. I reformatted the usb with cfdisk and looked at the available options. From all of them, near the bottom, there is one that says EFI... which also says that it is FAT 16/32.... That's the one that one have to select and then everything works (at least for me).

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