
Now, as you can see there are four storage devices connected to my virtual machine.įun Fact: you can change the shell screen color by executing the cls command, i.e cls 0 where 0 is Black, 1 is Blue, 2 is Green, 3 is Cyan, 4 is Red, 5 is Magenta, 6 is Yellow, and 7 is Light Gray.Īmong these four devices, FS1 is the CDROM.

You can clear the screen by executing the cls command and reprint the mapping table by executing the map command. The shell should show you the mapping table of all the storage devices of your virtual machine. To do so, make sure you’re on the UEFI Interactive Shell as show in the above screenshot. To be honest, I don’t have a clear explanation about why this happens but I know how you can execute the boot file manually. I’ve seen similar behavior with Debian in the past. This is nothing exclusive to Arch Linux though. Now if you choose the EFI Shell option, you’ll land into the UEFI interactive shell: The virtual machine boots into the following menu:


That is, instead of booting into the regular Arch Linux boot menu which looks as follows: How To Boot Arch Linux in UEFI Mode on VirtualBoxĪfter publishing The Arch Linux Handbook on freeCodeCamp, a number of readers have reached out to me regarding a common issue while trying to boot Arch Linux in UEFI mode on VirtualBox.
