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..
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 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.
Newbie forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=23
Installation issues forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewforum.php?id=17
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