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#1 2019-12-29 07:48:15

dotFiles
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Registered: 2019-05-13
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[SOLVED] systemd-boot, separate hard drives, dual boot w/ windows

As subject states:

UEFI bios, systemd-boot, separate hard drives, dual boot w/ windows, linux was installed first.

I need help, Arch user +- 4 years? I have been able to get by with just the wiki until now. Great documentation. hands down the best there is.

I am unable to find in the wiki or here on the forms my specific use case. Or I have overlooked it, or have been to anal retentive to be able to see that this has been solved.

I am on a UEFI motherboard, using systemd-boot. I have two separate hard drives. One with linux and the other with windows 10. With linux installed first.
How can I dual boot this machine like I use to with grub2?

I have not been able to find this particular scenario. If someone has seen it can you please post the link, or even better where exactly it is in the documentation.
This has seemed to elude me.

lsblk -f :

nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat            FE28-2AA2                                                        463.6M     9%          /boot
├─nvme0n1p2 swap          d18a8b3e-2169-485e-8016-aec8671868f2                                      [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p3 ext4            9c314cb2-3eb1-4c8c-964c-a38f1f11b81c        12.8G        29%        /
└─nvme0n1p4 ext4            f2be559b-25bc-41b9-91ce-3e6d7b368e0d      403.5G      1%          /home

nvme1n1
├─nvme1n1p1 ntfs             Recovery 8A60A84660A83B39
├─nvme1n1p2 vfat             C6A8-A8CC
├─nvme1n1p3
└─nvme1n1p4 ntfs             BE5EB2465EB1F6ED

Last edited by dotFiles (2019-12-29 17:33:17)

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#2 2019-12-29 12:13:21

V1del
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Re: [SOLVED] systemd-boot, separate hard drives, dual boot w/ windows

The problem here is that you have two distinct ESP partitions. systemd-boot can only boot EFI binaries available on its "own" ESP partition. GRUB can fix this easily as it has broader support here. You could also install the Windows UEFI loader files on the ESP you've set up for linux, but you'll have to ask/check google for that on a Windows support forum.

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#3 2019-12-29 17:26:21

dotFiles
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Re: [SOLVED] systemd-boot, separate hard drives, dual boot w/ windows

That's a perfect answer, thank you. So to solve my problem I need to use GRUB.

Last edited by dotFiles (2019-12-29 17:26:40)

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