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I have a thinkpad x1 carbon with windows 10 but when installing arch i accidentally installed grub to MBR. Now i cannot boot anymore into W10 (and I need it for work).
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda -l
[sudo] password for leonixyz:
Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa400ce2b
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1023999 1021952 499M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 1024000 326637395 325613396 155.3G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 326637568 343414783 16777216 8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 343414784 500118191 156703408 74.7G 83 Linux
Arch is in /dev/sda4, windows 10 in /dev/sda2 and (i suppose) the EFI system partition is /dev/sda1. Unfortunately it doesn't looks like an ESP (no EFI folder inside)
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
$ ls /mnt
ls: cannot open directory '/mnt': Permission denied
$ sudo ls /mnt -l
total 400
drwx------ 1 root root 8192 Jan 22 13:06 boot
-rw------- 1 root root 400228 Oct 30 2015 bootmgr
-rw------- 1 root root 1 Oct 30 2015 BOOTNXT
drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jan 22 13:09 Recovery
-rw------- 1 root root 44 Jan 22 13:07 _SMSTSVolumeID.7159644d-f741-45d5-ab29-0ad8aa4771ca
drwx------ 1 root root 0 Jan 22 13:08 'System Volume Information'
The current /boot is in /dev/sda4 and there are grub/, the kernel and initramfs inside there. There is no EFI folder also in /dev/sda2 (see this post)
1) Is actually /dev/sda1 an ESP?
2) What should i do to be able to boot both arch and windows10?
Thanks in advance
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still stuck with this issue
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What is the output of:
lsblk -f
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I think you should boot the ISO and chroot in it. Then repeat the grub installation. See details and the dual booting
Otherwise you might choose another boot loader that could be less complicated than grub. I.E. rEFInd.
Last edited by TheSaint (2016-05-15 06:05:24)
do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint
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@graysky
$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ntfs BDEDrive 0A16384E16383CCF
├─sda2 ntfs OSDisk DA783A41783A1CA7
├─sda3 swap SWAP 853ff0ea-6a38-4fba-98ad-118b7367336e
└─sda4 ext4 ROOT d625d4f6-5d08-4dea-a6ef-db9a0e50efc4 /
@TheSaint
The wiki says:
For GPT, you are looking for "Partition Table: GPT". For EFI, you are looking for a small (512 MiB or less) partition with a vfat file system and the boot flag enabled.
Up to here everything ok (see first post), /dev/sda1 has size < 512MiB and boot flag enabled. But...
On it, there should be a directory named "EFI". If these criteria are met, this is your ESP. Make note of the partition number. You will need to know which one it is, so you can mount it later on while installing GRUB to it.
Unfortunately there is no EFI directory inside, and I have to mount it later on for installing grub:
The following steps install the GRUB UEFI application to esp/EFI/grub, install its modules to /boot/grub/x86_64-efi, and place the bootable grubx64.efi stub in esp/EFI/grub.
First, tell GRUB to use UEFI, set the boot directory and set the bootloader ID. Mount the ESP partition to e.g. /boot or /boot/efi and in the following change esp to that mount point (usually /boot):
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=esp --bootloader-id=grub
I have no idea on what to mount and where, beacuse the ESP doesn't look as described in the wiki
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^What Saint said^
try refind.
first, sda1 is ntfs. this is wrong. The ESP needs to be fat32. and it can be any size (upto fat32 limits).
1. boot with any live image.
2. format sda1 as fat32 and set the appropriate flags (see the wiki)
3. mount /dev/sda1 and make a EFI folder inside.
4. Copy the refind files into it
5. Point your laptop UEFI to refind_x64.efi, if it doesnt find it automatically
Refind should find your win and other OSes just fine. If not, see if the configuration needs any tweaking.
Someday, we will get rid of grub.....
Last edited by surfatwork (2016-05-16 10:40:40)
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I don't see an EFI boot partition in your lsblk output...
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At this juncture it may be wise to set about saving your W10 installation if you have no data to rescue from your fresh Arch... did you convert your drive to GPT when W10 was installed?
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1) Is actually /dev/sda1 an ESP?
No, it is not.
2) What should i do to be able to boot both arch and windows10?
Try this:
# pacman -S os-prober
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
If this doesn't work, please provide complete details of your installation process.
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