Editing grub Menü dual boot not working
Editing grub Menü dual boot not working
The first OS on laptop was Windows 10. After that, I have added Manjaro. Manjaro has added a Grub menu, with entry's for Manjaro and Windows. Now I want to switch to Arch. I have installed Arch on a separate partition. Arch has not added a entry in this grub menu, but this was expected. I have used update-grub from Manjaro, what added Arch to the menu.
But for some reason I can't edit the menu from within Arch.
I have tried to understand Arch Wiki what I have to do, to edit this menu from Arch. Can someone please help me to get this to work? I have tried to add my EFI partition /dev/sda1 via fstab to /boot/efi like in Manjaro, but this doesn't help to find the same menu with grub-customizer.
Any idea's?
I'm a gentoo user, so I don't know how either manjaro or arch lay out their partitions. But in my case, the grub.cfg (menu) file is actually on the root partition, in /boot. The efi partition contains only the grub loader, which I presume knows where to look for grub.cfg because that's how grub2-setup installed it.
It's possible you have a similar issue. Your manjaro partition may have a /boot dir which is where grub.cfg is located. Even if your arch partition also has /boot it won't matter if the grub loader doesn't read it.
2You're correct. /boot is the location for grub.cfg for a vanilla manjaro install and a grub using arch install
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Show df -h from Manjaro and Arch please.
2df -h
Manjaro:
dev 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev run 7,8G 1,9M 7,8G 1% /run /dev/sdb3 68G 50G 15G 78% / tmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7,8G 9,0M 7,8G 1% /tmp /dev/sdb4 587G 272G 285G 49% /mnt/games /dev/sda1 296M 56M 241M 19% /boot/efi tmpfs 1,6G 100K 1,6G 1% /run/user/1000Arch:
dev 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev run 7,8G 1,7M 7,8G 1% /run efivarfs 128K 46K 78K 38% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /dev/sdb5 69G 21G 45G 32% / tmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 7,8G 8,6M 7,8G 1% /tmp /dev/sdb4 587G 272G 285G 49% /mnt/games /dev/sda1 296M 56M 241M 19% /boot/efi tmpfs 1,6G 108K 1,6G 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sdb2 1,2T 796G 332G 71% /mnt/volume1I got it to work...
I have used the command
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id="Arch Linux"before, but without success. This didn't worked before. But now...I have no idea, whats changed. Anyhow. Im happy.
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