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Walrus

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Registered: 2020-05-07

Posts: 2

Issue with dual booting with windows

Fairly new to Arch (about 6 months) and pretty much everything I've tried to do I've been able to figure out but this is something that just doesn't seem to work. I've been using a functional arch installation for a few months now and decided that it would be useful to have the ability to dual boot into windows. I used a completely separate hard drive to install windows, it has nothing linux related on it what so ever completely clean install on a fresh hard drive. I am able to boot into it from bios and everything is fine, and i can also boot into grub either from bios or the system defaults to booting to it, yet I can't get grub to display the option to boot into windows, I've tried searching the forums for both grub and other stuff for help yet all those require knowing where the grub folder is but there is nothing grub related under my /boot folder or /efi folder so I'm really stuck on what my issue is or where to look

InvisibleRasta

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Registered: 2017-04-12

Posts: 122

Re: Issue with dual booting with windows

are you sure you are using grub? what do you have in /boot?
did you check this part of the grub wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#MS_Windows

Walrus

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Registered: 2020-05-07

Posts: 2

Re: Issue with dual booting with windows

Yes I have looked at that, made sure I had os-prober, made sure I had ntfs-3g and used os-prober and used mk-config for grub after making sure all of those were done and the drive was mounted. I am sure I am using grub as I installed the bootloader and when I boot up it boots into the grub display.  /boot has the initramfs and amd-ucode images as well as vmlinuz-linux executable

adamc83

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 42

Re: Issue with dual booting with windows

Are you using EFI or MBR?

adamc83

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Registered: 2008-06-01

Posts: 42

Re: Issue with dual booting with windows

The output of :

lsblk --fs

Might be useful too.