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albertothedev

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[SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

I want to triple-boot those three on the same drive with UEFI and I was wondering if there are any steps I should take/avoid during the Arch installation process. Currently, what I am planning on doing is installing Windows 10, Manjaro with manual partitioning (EFI and root partitions), and Arch with EFI and root partitions and no extra steps.

Should I skip creating an EFI partition for Arch?

I have heard that it's better to install Manjaro after Arch because Arch doesn't detect Windows partitions by default whereas Manjaro does and installing them in this order will make Manjaro's GRUB config override Arch's. Should I do it this way?

Thanks!

Last edited by albertothedev (2021-11-03 15:03:23)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

You should only have on efi partition.  You should also only have one boot manager, so "overriding" another distro's boot manager config is irrelevant: you'll only have one boot manager.

Other than that, read the wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows

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albertothedev

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

You should only have on efi partition.  You should also only have one boot manager, so "overriding" another distro's boot manager config is irrelevant: you'll only have one boot manager.

Other than that, read the wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows

So, when installing Arch, should I skip creating an EFI partition and installing GRUB? Is it better to install Arch like this (after Windows 10) and then install Manjaro with its own EFI partition?

Last edited by albertothedev (2021-11-03 06:17:39)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

No, it's not guaranteed that your UEFI can understand the existence of multiple EFI partitions. It can work or it can't work. The plan is to have one EFI partition that all things live on. Assuming you want to use Manjaro's GRUB to handle booting different systems, you can do what you propose and then configure Manjaro's GRUB to also generate entries for Arch Linux.

albertothedev

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

What I have ended up doing is installing Windows 10 normally (it creates its own EFI partition), installing Arch without creating an EFI partition or setting up GRUB, and installing Manjaro with an EFI partition created during install via manual partitioning. I have taken no extra steps but Manjaro has been able to not only detect Windows 10 and add it to the GRUB boot menu but also Arch. It's all working perfectly.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Triple-booting Windows 10, Manjaro, and Arch.

Yes GRUB has that capability and it can generally deal with these situations. Please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.