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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Help setting up UEFI multi boot system

However, bootctl install does not autodetect the windows install: it always boots arch directly

Please post the output of:

# parted -l
# lsblk -f
# efibootmgr -v

Note that systemd-boot can only boot kernel images or Windows bootloaders that are located on the same ESP, you cannot boot Windows from a separate ESP using systemd-boot.

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Xi0N

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From: Bilbao - Spain

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Re: Help setting up UEFI multi boot system

However, bootctl install does not autodetect the windows install: it always boots arch directly

Please post the output of:

# parted -l
# lsblk -f
# efibootmgr -v

Note that systemd-boot can only boot kernel images or Windows bootloaders that are located on the same ESP, you cannot boot Windows from a separate ESP using systemd-boot.

Nah, It's working now, I tried to reinstall because i'm playing with VM's and the one I was testing on was destroyed yesterday. Today systemd-boot recongnised th windows system. However, I noticed once you boot windows it changes the boot priority to himself, bypassing systemd-boot

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: Help setting up UEFI multi boot system

I noticed once you boot windows it changes the boot priority to himself, bypassing systemd-boot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … boot_order

For your system, the command would be:

bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi

The bootmanager binary should also be located at $ESP/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

EDIT: and don't worry about those "multiple subdirectories" -- my Debian system has a /boot/efi/efi/boot...

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-03-23 21:21:08)

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