#[SOLVED] How to have Windows in grub menu

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minor warren
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minor warren
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.aw os-prober

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minor warren
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.aw grub

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pearl whale
minor warren
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.aw dual boot

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minor warren
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Be sure you have os prober installed

pearl whale
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Installing Arch on an Apple computer?

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Wat

minor warren
pearl whale
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I clicked on the link

pearl whale
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pearl whale
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Emm
Ok
Sounds simple
Except that I need to check how to mount

minor warren
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pearl whale
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Mhm

minor warren
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It's not that hard

pearl whale
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This confuses me
Am I simply supposed to run mount /dev/<the name of the drive>?

minor warren
pearl whale
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I don't think I have a file manager

minor warren
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Even gparted/gnome disks tool can mount it

pearl whale
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I didn't install one

pearl whale
minor warren
pearl whale
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Don't I have to tell what drive somewhere?

minor warren
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Ofc you have

pearl whale
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Where?

minor warren
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That's up to your drive layout

pearl whale
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What do you mean?

minor warren
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.aw dual boot

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pearl whale
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I thought I could simply run a command and put nvme1n1 in it
Or nvme1n1p1, nvme1n1p2, nvme1n1p3 and nvme1n1p4
(My windows drive and it's partitions)

minor warren
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Just edit grub config then update it

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.aw grub

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pearl whale
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I'm so confused now

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I thought I was supposed to mount the drive

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And I already edited the grub config

minor warren
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Just update your grub config after enabling os prober

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That should do it

pearl whale
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Isn't it in the grub config that you enable the os prober?

minor warren
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You have to do what the wiki says on grub article

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.aw grub detecting other

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pearl whale
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I remember having to go in the grub config and write or uncomment
Disable os prober = false or something like that

minor warren
pearl whale
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But that was a few days ago

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Well yeah

minor warren
pearl whale
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But I didn't know I had to install os prober
I thought it was part of grub

minor warren
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Lol nope

pearl whale
minor warren
pearl whale
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Yes

minor warren
pearl whale
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How?

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Do you mean saving it?

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ctrl+o?
In nano

minor warren
pearl whale
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Ok

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How

minor warren
# pearl whale How

You did sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Now after editing OS prober config inside grub config, run
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg then reboot to see changes

pearl whale
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Ok

minor warren
pearl whale
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Ok so no need to mount anything even though what you sent me told me to

short kettle
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.aw grub

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short kettle
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the steps are under detecting other operating systems

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sounds like you already got it but just ping me if you don't

pearl whale
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Ok

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Tnx

minor warren
pearl whale
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Sorry I'm forced to try to repair a wash machine older than me even though I don't think I can fix it

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Which means I haven't dons it yet

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And I'm generally trying to do a lot of stuff at the same time right now

short kettle
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oof

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good luck

pearl whale
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Tnx

minor warren
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Same with reboot

pearl whale
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But if I'm not near to my pc it's going to be hard to run a command

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Especially on the other side of the Appartment

short kettle
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lmao

pearl whale
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Ok I'm rebooting

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And there is only arch, arch advanced options and firmware settings

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Ok so I read the wiki

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And I did everything except mount the partition windows is on

pearl whale
minor warren
pearl whale
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I did all that

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I'll check if acer changed my firmware settings again
But probably not because otherwise the drives wouldn't show with lsblk

minor warren
pearl whale
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My settings are fine

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Any ideas?

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How to have Windows in grub menu

vapid bear
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do ur drives show up on lsblk?

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if not could i see the settings related to drives in ur firmware? I had that happen once due to a firmware setting

minor warren
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@pearl whale :this:

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vapid bear
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just making sure because i couldnt tell

pearl whale
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(and sorry for the late reply, I didn't get pinged somehow)

vapid bear
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well i didnt ping u so that's probably why

pearl whale
vapid bear
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oh

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so what's the output of the command that regenerates the grub config?

pearl whale
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idk

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nothing special

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wait I'll go back into arch

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And I'm in

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How do I regenerate it?

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I don't remember

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Wait found it

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Everything looks normal to me

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No error messages or anything

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Half of it is german so idk if making a picture of my screen would help

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I think I should change the lange back to English later

vapid bear
pearl whale
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Btw I just noticed that it says os-prober is used to check for other bootable partitions

vapid bear
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u can boot into windows through the windows bootloader right?

pearl whale
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Yes

vapid bear
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might as well try mounting the windows boot partition then

pearl whale
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How?

vapid bear
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u can find the partition through lsblk

pearl whale
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Yes

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But how do I mount it?

vapid bear
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mount /dev/<name of drive from lsblk> /<mountpoint>

pearl whale
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What is the mountpoint?

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And what partition is it?

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vapid bear
pearl whale
vapid bear
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it could really be anywhere but /mnt is kinda like a "designated place"

pearl whale
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Ok

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Now how do I know what partition is the boot partition?

vapid bear
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find it using lsblk

pearl whale
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I know how to use lsblk but that doesn't tell me which one is the boot partition

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It only lists them to me and tells me how much storage they have

vapid bear
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do you know which drive windows is on?

pearl whale
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Not if it's a windows boot partition or whatever

pearl whale
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And asked which one is the right one

pearl whale
vapid bear
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ah i cant rlly tell either tbh
lsblk -a will give a more detailed output

pearl whale
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Nope

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It's the exact same

vapid bear
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oops wrong one

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lsblk -f?

pearl whale
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Ok yeah that gives me new info

vapid bear
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yea it's probably nvme1n1p1 then

pearl whale
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Could you tell me how you know?

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Pls

vapid bear
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FAT32 file system and ESP partition type are all things a UEFI boot partition usually has

pearl whale
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Ok

vapid bear
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so mount that and try to regenerate the grub config

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ill be back in a little bit

pearl whale
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Ok

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Windows boot manager is there now

vapid bear
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great

pearl whale
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Nice, thank you

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So I did need to mount the partition

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Now ima check my internet speeds and complain to my provider because this isn't normal lol

vapid bear
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alr good luck with that

pearl whale
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Thanks