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Gulnar

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Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

I'm a linux user since the late 90's but a newcomer to Arch so please tell me if this should be moved to the Newbie section instead.

Trying to install Arch to dualboot with Windows 10 on a UEFI Lenovo T440P.

The installation seems to have completed good with a base system in place which I can access using arch-chroot. I followed  the install instructions from the  Wiki.

Also Grub is installed and loading on boot.

The problem is that Grub is not showing my Arch installation as an option.

The boot menu shows:

Windows Boot Manager
EFI default loader
Boot Into Firmware Interface

If I select EFI default loader I'm moved to a menu with:

Windows Boot Manager
Boot Into Firmware Interface

Those to optiona either take me to Win10 or the firmware settings.

Can someone suggest to me how to start troubleshoot this?

Last edited by Gulnar (2016-05-15 12:22:30)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

Please post the full output of:

# efibootmgr -v
# parted -l

These commands can be run from any GNU/Linux live ISO image.

Please also provide a list of the *exact* commands which were used to install the GRUB bootloader to the hard drive and create the configuration file.

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Gulnar

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

The boot manager was installed using:

# bootctl install 

As In understood it was not necessary to supply any additional path information if the Arch wiki install instructions was followed.

The output from parted is as follows:

# parted -l
Model: ATA ST500LM021-1KJ15 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  1050MB  1049MB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag
 2      1050MB  1322MB  273MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      1322MB  1456MB  134MB                Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      1456MB  291GB   289GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 5      291GB   479GB   189GB   ext4
 6      479GB   500GB   20.7GB  ntfs                                       hidden, diag


Model: Kingston DataTraveler G3 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 3870MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 2      88.1kB  42.0MB  41.9MB  primary  fat16        esp

And from efibootmgr:

#efibootmgr -l
BootCurrent: 000D
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0016,0015,0007,0008,0000,0001,0002,0003,0009,000A,000B,000C,000D,000E,0013,0017,0014
Boot0000  Setup FvFile(721c8b66-426c-4e86-8e99-3457c46ab0b9)
Boot0001  Boot Menu     FvFile(126a762d-5758-4fca-8531-201a7f57f850)
Boot0002  Diagnostic Splash Screen      FvFile(a7d8d9a6-6ab0-4aeb-ad9d-163e59a7a380)
Boot0003  Lenovo Diagnostics    FvFile(3f7e615b-0d45-4f80-88dc-26b234958560)
Boot0004  Startup Interrupt Menu        FvFile(f46ee6f4-4785-43a3-923d-7f786c3c8479)
Boot0005  Rescue and Recovery   FvFile(665d3f60-ad3e-4cad-8e26-db46eee9f1b5)
Boot0006  MEBx Hot Key  FvFile(ac6fd56a-3d41-4efd-a1b9-870293811a28)
Boot0007* USB CD        VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,86701296aa5a7848b66cd49dd3ba6a55)
Boot0008* USB FDD       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,6ff015a28830b543a8b8641009461e49)
Boot0009* ATAPI CD      VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,aea2090adfde214e8b3a5e471856a354)
Boot000A* ATA HDD0      VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f600)
Boot000B* ATA HDD1:     VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f605)
Boot000C* ATA HDD2:     VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f601)
Boot000D* USB HDD       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,33e821aaaf33bc4789bd419f88c50803)
Boot000E* PCI LAN       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,78a84aaf2b2afc4ea79cf5cc8f3d3803)
Boot000F* IDER BOOT CDROM       PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x16,0x2)/Ata(0,1,0)
Boot0010* IDER BOOT Floppy      PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x16,0x2)/Ata(0,0,0)
Boot0011* ATA HDD       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f6)
Boot0012* PCI LAN       VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,78a84aaf2b2afc4ea79cf5cc8f3d3803)
Boot0013  Other HDD     VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f606)
Boot0014  Other CD      VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,aea2090adfde214e8b3a5e471856a35406)
Boot0015* Linux Boot Manager    HD(2,GPT,efe4052c-d395-4fd0-852e-f0dbbcbe1f9d,0x1f4800,0x82000)/File(\EFI\systemd\systemd-bootx64.efi)
Boot0016* Arch Linux    HD(1,GPT,6bdd7682-5d8f-410b-9e11-5913686f66a1,0x800,0x1f4000)/File(\vmlinuz-linux)r.o.o.t.=./.d.e.v./.s.d.a.5. .r.w. .i.n.i.t.r.d.=./.i.n.i.t.r.a.m.f.s.-.l.i.n.u.x...i.m.g.
Boot0017* Windows Boot Manager  HD(2,GPT,efe4052c-d395-4fd0-852e-f0dbbcbe1f9d,0x1f4800,0x82000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...................

TheSaint

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

You didn't installed grub. But there's a conflict on the booting order. You might enter the BIOS boot order, to modify your booting order or you should read the efibootmgr man page, then modify the booting order.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

As @TheSaint says, you are using systemd-boot rather than GRUB and you need to configure it correctly.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … figuration

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Gulnar

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

You are right. Setting it up according to your link fixed the bootloader issue in a quick way.

esp/loader/entries/arch.conf
title          Arch Linux
linux          /vmlinuz-linux
initrd         /initramfs-linux.img
options        root=PARTUUID=<YOUR UUID> rw

Gulnar

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

By the way. How do I set this thread to Answered?

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Re: Grub can not find Arch partition in dual boot [SOLVED]

As the owner of the thread, you can edit your first post in the thread.  That will allow you to edit the thread title.
Just prepend [SOLVED].  You may need to re-wicker the title is it is too long.

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