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mhhmm

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Registered: 2023-11-25

Posts: 1

Boot folder is empty after grub-update

I installed and used Arch, then I dual boot Arch with Windows, it worked fine

After that i noticed the grub didn't have Windows options, so that I add a new menuentry inside /etc/grub.d

After that it showed new menu "Windows" in grub box when i restart, but the error: "Not found windows boot efi" happened

So I ran these 2 commands:

```
sudo os-prober
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
```

And now when i restart my computer again, grub is not working anymore, it flashs and keeps returning to BIOS

I still can access to windows now, and as I checked in linux reader from windows, the /boot/ folder is empty

Could you guys please help !! Thank a tons !!

Last edited by mhhmm (2023-11-25 22:26:04)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,307

Re: Boot folder is empty after grub-update

I still can access to windows now, and as I checked in linux reader from windows

Please use some linux live distro and if you're using a boot partition, the mountpoint is supposed to be empty on the root partition.

Depending on how old the system is you might have run into https://archlinux.org/news/grub-bootloa … ibilities/

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