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my laptop had fedora dual booted on it from years ago, so i wanted to nuke it and start over by dual booting arch. deleted the partition from within windows, restarted the machine, and now I'm stuck at the "grub version 2 minimal bash like line editing is supported" screen. I can get out of it, and get into windows, but i cant access the UEFI to remove the fedora option from the boot menu and continue on with the arch install. I've looked into solutions, but those all seem to require that i do something from within linux itself, which as i mentioned, no longer exists on my machine. Anybody have any thoughts on how to fix this, or to nuke grub (without having to go through linux to do it) and start from scratch in UEFI? thanks!
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ok, so I accidentally fixed my problem! from the grub CLI, i ran "fwsetup" (i think thats what it was, hit the tab button to see a list of possible commands, then see which one is closest to that). This brought me back to my normal UEFI BIOS. from there, i disabled the fedora boot options. Since then, it seems to work normally. Haven't gotten to the installing arch part yet, so i may yet run into more problems i created for myself, but for now it seems that i accidentally fixed my problem by running random commands until something works. I wonder if there's a lesson there.
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you can also "reboot into bios" from windows: settings > recovery > advanced start > troubleshoot > uefi firmware (or something like this)
or you mash one of tge following on boot:
ESC
DEL
F2
F6
F8
F9
F10
F11
F12
be aware if your laptop has Fn keys: sometimes there's an option in the biis to toggle between "normal" and "function" mode - so could be you need to hold Fn while mashing the F keys
from within linux you can run efibootmgr to clear the fedora entry - there might be similiar tools for windows to do that
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