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After installing Arch Linux on this new Thinkpad X200 grub doesn't work, that is, the laptop continues to load from a Windows boot menu, even without a Windows boot menu on the laptop.
The laptop never loads Grub, only a menu with the the two tabs Boot menu and App menu. In there Boot menu the options are: "Windows Boot Manager", "ATA HDD0: TOSHIBA THNSNJ128GCSU", the third option "PCI LAN", all options doing nothing, without Windows installed, that is.
With only this menu loading, Grub never loads.
That's the situation, in short. For any details, please ask.
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refer to my post here
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First thing I would check is the boot order in your bios assuming grub and everything is installed properly if the windows install is on a separate drive and is earlier in the boot order it will boot from the windows UEFI part instead of the grub boot part.
Last edited by croyleje (2025-10-27 01:24:44)
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well - these days pre-installed windows has its licence bonded to some hardware id and the key is usually hard-coded in some recovery - so, no more key stickers and the underside
if you care for windows then that's fine - but with the device you've paid for the licence - so I would try to at least get the key somehow (either by some tool able to read it out - or some throw-away microsoft account not used for anything else but proper activation - you paid for it anyway, why not use it?)
as for the actual issue: first make sure to disable secure boot in the uefi
next: disable window fast boot: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_b … ibernation
after that use efibootmgr to just wipe out all boot entries and wipefs to wipe the partitions
if the system still wants to try to boot into windows then that's hard coded into the firmware and you either have to flash it (if some is available) or ditch the device
also: grub recently had some issues - so maybe try other bootloaders like refind or systemd-boot
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