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JonatHam

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Registered: 2022-04-24

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grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

I installed Arch Linux in UEFI Mode on my 2nd HDD and I installed GRUB as my boot loader 3 months ago, because I need windows 10 to work, I left it on the first SSD, The efi booting partitions of these two system were on separate hard drivers. And I choose arch as my default operating system. When windows 10 tell me to upgrade, I can't complete the upgrade process after I followed the instruction to restart the computer, and I can't boot into windows by grub, I only can use BIOS to boot into windows, then after the system upgrade rollback, I can use grub to go into the windows again.
I need so suggestion to solve the windows 10 upgrade failed problem, do I need to switch the boot manager? systemd-boot or refind? And how to sovle it without breaking my things on my computer. thanks.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

Can you post the output of ifibootmgr -u please?
I want to see if you still have a UFI entry for the Windows boot manager.  If so, the best answer might be to change to the Windows boot manager for the purposes of updating Windows.  Then, change it back to GRUB after the update,

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JonatHam

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Registered: 2022-04-24

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Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

Here is my output of efibootmgr -u

BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 5 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0002,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* GRUB  HD(4,GPT,b5554f58-40c7-dc40-84bb-8340729e5359,0x51ebb800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\GRUB\grubx64.efi)
Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager  HD(1,GPT,942a6e3a-199e-4784-b5d0-badda4d3f561,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)
Boot2001* EFI USB Device 
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM 
Boot2003* EFI Network

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

So, as an possible workaround, set the boot order

sudo efibootmgr -o 0002,0000,2001,2002,2003

That *should* cause the system to use the MS Windows boot loader by default.  Reboot to Windows, do the update -- and it may reboot several times in the course of that.

When you are done, you need to re-enable GRUB.  Hopefully  you can use the computer's boot menu (part of the pre-boot configuration environment often misidentified as a BIOS screen) to select GRUB.   If, for some reason you cannot, you can use your install media to boot.  Once back in Linux land, use the same command efibootmgr to set the original boot order (0000,0002,2001,2002,2003)

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JonatHam

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Registered: 2022-04-24

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Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

Unfortunately, I tried this way but it failed again. The Windows 10 upgrade stuck in 94% or 95% after rebooting and then reported a upgrade failed log. Finally rollback to old version. Is there any other solution?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

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Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

Unfortunately, this configuration completely removed Arch Linux from the equation -- you should be entirely in the hands of Microsoft.  We really cannot help with that.

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leonavis

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From: Bremen, Germany

Registered: 2021-06-27

Posts: 71

Re: grub stop my windows 10 upgrade

Yeah, you seem to have that problem - which, as a quick search reveals, you are not alone with, being stuck at 95% updates being installed - regardless of the Linux-installation.

Try to research the problem in forums dealing with Windows-problems. Unfortunately on my quick search I haven't found anything obvious, just a bunch of users over years and various Windows (8, 8.1, 10) with the same problem and various fixes and solutions. If I were you I'd probably just secure the data and reinstall Windows because in my experience that's less trouble than to actually troubleshoot it. Good luck.