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hoarah

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 4

two boot managers

hi,
I only have arch in my laptop wake up one day and it just not here anymore tried updating grub didn't work reinstalling didn't work after that I installed rEFInd and rEFInd worked fine but when I choose arch grub menu shows up is this normal ? I mean sure it's not and before you say it I know I just can uninstall grub but I'm sharing this to know why did it do that ? am I the only one this happened to or it's a bug or what
I don't really know where to post this

Last edited by hoarah (2025-03-18 20:38:28)

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

Posts: 1,535

Re: two boot managers

I suggest you to have a look to this wiki.

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

hoarah

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 4

Re: two boot managers

I read the wiki but still don't understand why is this happen

Last edited by hoarah (2025-03-19 04:31:02)

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,564

Re: two boot managers

ReFind is a boot manager while grub is more accurately described as a boot loader .

https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ gives a good overview of ReFind by its creator .

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky

hoarah

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Registered: 2025-03-16

Posts: 4

Re: two boot managers

so rEFInd is boot manager that detect boot loaders like grub and it's very normal to have grub after rEFInd
and thanks for explanation