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chrisdb

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2018-05-16

Posts: 155

[SOLVED] GRUB dual boot - first time not working

Hello,

During the arch-chroot process of the installation I always try to enable dual boot with Windows using the following commands:

pacman -S os-prober grub efibootmgr 
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader=arch
os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

After this I get the following output:

/dev/sda1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi
Generating  grub configuration file ...  
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/amd-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initrd image(s) in /boot: initramfs-linux-fallback.img
Done

But when I reboot my system, I've only got the option to choose arch.

The strange thing is that if I start the live ISO and perform the same action again in arch-chroot, it does work.

Why doesn't this work during the initial installation in arch-chroot?

Last edited by chrisdb (2019-10-23 19:20:39)

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB dual boot - first time not working

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64155 ?

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] GRUB dual boot - first time not working

Not an installation issue, moving to Apps and DEs.

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chrisdb

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2018-05-16

Posts: 155

Re: [SOLVED] GRUB dual boot - first time not working

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64155 ?

Installing 'which' solved my issue

Btw the reason why it worked after reboot was because I installed xfce4-session afterwards  and the 'which' package is a dependency

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