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iboyperson

Member

Registered: 2017-11-02

Posts: 7

os-prober finds windows twice

When I run

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

it returns:

Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /boot/grub/themes/arc/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-fallback.img
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/nvme0n1p1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/nvme0n1p1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
done

Why is it finding two identical Windows Boot Managers? Is there any way to fix this?

Update: The second Windows boot manager seems to be the result of the file: 30_os-prober_proxy in /etc/grub.d/. As a result of its presence it seems to be probing twice. Is it safe to delete this file?

Last edited by iboyperson (2018-04-28 01:03:06)

Morganamilo

Package Maintainer (PM)

Registered: 2017-12-05

Posts: 77

Re: os-prober finds windows twice

I don't have 30_os-prober_proxy on my machine. You code pacman -Qo it to see who owns it and uninstall that package.

If you need the package but not the file you could always add it to NoExtract.