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Cozrael

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Registered: 2025-08-19

Posts: 1

Arch Linux not showing in GRUB after installing Kali

Hey,

I first installed KDE Plasma, then Arch Linux. Everything worked fine.
Recently, I installed Kali Linux on a separate partition, but now in the GRUB menu I can only see Kali and Arch Linux is missing.
How can I get Arch Linux to appear in the GRUB menu again?

(I am kinda new to dual booting)

Thanks for any advices.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,064

Re: Arch Linux not showing in GRUB after installing Kali

Check your general UEFI menu whether you have multiple entries now (or efibootmgr -uv from a running system) otherwise Kali's GRUB will have replaced Arch's GRUB and you would have to do config changes there, which is technically out of scope here.

Assuming you want one GRUB that shows all entries, decide which should be the main "GRUB" because you'd have to configure it from the "parent system". In the simplest case, install the os-prober equivalent of Kali and mount the partition containing your Arch initramfs and vmlinuz files somewhere and rerun grub-mkconfig (from Kali, for the Kali config) if you need further help with that ask the Kali folks. (basically: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#D … ng_systems )

If you want to setup a distinct GRUB instance for Arch then follow the normal procedure: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Installation -- If that should be distinct from Kali and you want two of them, pick a different bootloader-id in the grub-install command than GRUB so you don't have a name clash.

In cases like these I'd reccommend you use Kali's GRUB for configuration, since they have a more complicated kernel setup than Arch by default (for an Arch entry to remain bootable, as long as a reference to the static vmlinuz-linux initramfs-linux.img files remains that kernel will be bootable regardless)

Last edited by V1del (2025-08-19 12:00:07)