Having trouIble getting manjaro boot option back | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 7:20 PM

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Would it be quicker to just say fuck it to my dual boot set up for now and re install?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 7:38 PM

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fdisk -l whats the output

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 7:53 PM

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Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: KBG40ZNV256G KIOXIA
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0004E77A-C737-43BE-9B24-FC07896E7D29

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 206847 204800 100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 206848 239615 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 239616 162603007 162363392 77.4G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 162603008 163839999 1236992 604M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 163840000 165478398 1638399 800M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p6 172840960 491448318 318607359 151.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/nvme0n1p7 491448320 500117503 8669184 4.1G Linux swap

Disk /dev/sda: 111.79 GiB, 120034123776 bytes, 234441648 sectors
Disk model: nal USB 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x68ce0ec3

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 64 8011359 8011296 3.8G 0 Empty
/dev/sda2 8011360 8019551 8192 4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

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sorry for the late reply

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:01 PM

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how did you install grub?

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@hallow plaza

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:02 PM

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I did not

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I tried to

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:02 PM

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no like what commands

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:02 PM

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grub-install

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:02 PM

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thats it?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:03 PM

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obviously not

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let me look it up

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:03 PM

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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:03 PM

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yes

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grub-install /dev/sda --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot this was the command I was supposed to use, but I changed it because my EFI partition is nvme0n1p5

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at least that's what I thought

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:04 PM

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you did it wrong then

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:04 PM

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oh?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:04 PM

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you arent supposed to change /boot to your nvme0n1p5

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if you mounted nvme0n1p5 as /boot that would be fine already

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probably the reason it couldnt find the partition

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but

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doing mount /dev/nvme0n1p5 /boot then running the install command would work

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also isnt it supposed to be /boot/efi

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:06 PM

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you mean at the end?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:06 PM

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yeah

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:06 PM

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that's the command I saw in the video :/

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let me do that

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:07 PM

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oh your doing /boot/efi?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:07 PM

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the way I tryped the command was like this grub-install /dev/nvme0n1p5

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:07 PM

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hallow plaza the way I tryped the command was like this grub-install /dev/nvme0n1p5

that only works for BIOS

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:07 PM

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no the command in the video was the one with the /efi at the end

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wihtout*

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fk my life

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I can't type

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:08 PM

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are you in your install right now?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:08 PM

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I am not in the live environment iif that's what you're asking

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:08 PM

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no i meant your literal install but live enviroment would work fine too

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:08 PM

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yeah I am in my install

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:09 PM

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alright do pacman -S efibootmgr as you probably dont have it installed

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im guessing though if you dont not really sure

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:09 PM

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you are right

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:09 PM

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afterwards do mkdir /boot/efi this makes the directory of /boot/efi

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:10 PM

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says file exists

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:10 PM

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hallow plaza says file exists

thats fine then

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now mount your efi partition by doing mount /dev/nvme0n1p5 /boot/efi

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:10 PM

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done

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:10 PM

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grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/efi install grub

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:10 PM

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is it supposed to not say anything btw?

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after doing the mount command

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:11 PM

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hallow plaza is it supposed to not say anything btw?

nah you can say whatever if something happens

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oh yeah

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nothing suppsoed to pop up

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:11 PM

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aight

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:11 PM

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probably mounted already

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:11 PM

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steel citrus ``grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=GRUB --efi-directory=/boot/ef...

after installing grub make the cfg file by running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:12 PM

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installation finished

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:12 PM

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also you mentioned you have a dual boot right?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:12 PM

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yes

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:12 PM

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yeah you do

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:12 PM

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my windows boot manager showed up

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actually why am It alking let me copy paste

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enerating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/nvme0n1p1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Root filesystem isn't btrfs
If you think an error has occurred, please file a bug report at "https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs"
done

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:13 PM

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oh you are on btrfs

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i guess hope that error wont change anything but you now have to do pacman -S os-prober

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:14 PM

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done

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:14 PM

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and i think you just run os-prober

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:15 PM

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dev/nvme0n1p1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map.

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:15 PM

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yeah i think the tutorial you followed you entered /dev/sda1 somewhere

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even though your efi partition is /dev/nvme0n1p5

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:15 PM

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I replaced dev sda 1 with my efi partition

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whenever I ran those commands

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I said that above actually, whenver I had to type grub-install instead of /dev/sda

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I put /dev/nvme01np5

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sorry 0n1*

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:17 PM

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hallow plaza dev/nvme0n1p1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi ...

what that all it said though?

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was*

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:17 PM

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yes

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:17 PM

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hallow plaza sorry 0n1*

thats your windows boot partition

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:17 PM

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no man I was too vague

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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hallow plaza I put /dev/nvme01np5

I meant to correct waht I said

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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oh yeah

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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I always put partition 5

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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nvme0n1p5?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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yes

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always

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replaced dev sda with that

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:18 PM

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can you do cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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and send the output

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:19 PM

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cat?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:19 PM

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yeah

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:20 PM

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📎 message.txt

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why did it copy like this

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:20 PM

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too many charcthers

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anyways os-prober looks fine try rebooting

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:21 PM

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should I check in bios before booting?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:21 PM

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it should show up in your boot options

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but it also should automatically set it to boot to grub

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:22 PM

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alrighty

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only windows boot manager shows up in grub

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:26 PM

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yeah then that error means something

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:26 PM

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in all 10+ years of using pcs I've never seen a BIOS update wreck this much chaos

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:27 PM

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a UEFI bios update?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:27 PM

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what happened was

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I needed to do something in Windows yesterday

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did my business and shut it down but came back later to look something up

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then I woke up with the HP logo and that it's performing a system update

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then put it me into bios update screen

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I looked it up later and it seems like WIndows Update can also update your bios

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I've never even looked up what bios version I'm running or anything

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just out of the blue

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:30 PM

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yeah thats not supposed to cause problems

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can you boot back into your install?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:30 PM

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I am already back in manjaro

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:30 PM

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that fast?

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try running sudo grub-mkdevicemap

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:30 PM

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but I have to keep my bootable usb at my side so I can manually select it

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by going into Detect EFI bootloaders

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you sure you typed that command correctly?

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says it doesn't exist

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:31 PM

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hmm

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ahh i think thats the outdated command

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can you do ls /boot/efi

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:33 PM

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5a0e5a7a541ba6942f8ef9cd62e421e4 EFI grub loader 'System Volume Information'

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in the tutorial I followed, here I was supposed to get my distro

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in his he gets ubuntu

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when I cd into that only then I get to the distros

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the way I found my grubx64.efi file was like this

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:36 PM

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yeah?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:36 PM

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[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc ~]# cd /boot
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc boot]# dir
amd-ucode.img grub initramfs-5.15-x86_64.img memtest86+
efi initramfs-5.15-x86_64-fallback.img linux515-x86_64.kver vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc boot]# cd efi
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc efi]# dir
5a0e5a7a541ba6942f8ef9cd62e421e4 EFI grub loader System\ Volume\ Information
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc efi]# cd EFI
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc EFI]# dir
BOOT GRUB HP Linux Manjaro Pop_OS-cbfd5759-12e8-4688-8e9e-a7c0bc97362d systemd
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc EFI]# ^C
[hocaydo-hp255g8notebookpc EFI]#

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welp

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let me try that again

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:37 PM

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why is there popos

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:37 PM

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I had popos installed at some point

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I have no clue why it's there

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anyway, when I cd into Manjaro then I get my grubx64.efi file

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the last command in the tutorial was like this

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:38 PM

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no i was wondering if theres a device.map file there

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:38 PM

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efibootmgr -c

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let me check

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:39 PM

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uh

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you dont need to do that

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:39 PM

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I did it before you came to reply

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and at the end it did show up in the terminal as the last boot option

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but when I went into bios nothing changed

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:40 PM

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it adds a entry in uefi boot menu

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:40 PM

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yeah

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oh boot menu

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when I typed ls /boot/efi I couldn't cd further into EFI

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but that is the content of the EFI folder

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BOOT GRUB HP Linux Manjaro Pop_OS-cbfd5759-12e8-4688-8e9e-a7c0bc97362d systemd

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:43 PM

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lets just sudo rm -rf /boot and reinstall grub

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because whatever tutorial you followed doesnt work on arch i guess

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:43 PM

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device or resource busy

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:43 PM

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/boot/efi?

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:44 PM

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wait a sec

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sudo rm -rf /boot  ✔  2m 3s 
rm: cannot remove '/boot/efi': Device or resource busy

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output

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well yeah

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xD

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:44 PM

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try sudo rm -rf /boot/efi

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:45 PM

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same output

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:45 PM

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lsof +D /boot

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:45 PM

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should it display nothing?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:46 PM

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try running sudo rm -rf /boot again now

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that should say what has it open

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:46 PM

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it still says device or resource busy

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:47 PM

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steel citrus lsof +D /boot

should I run this in sudo?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:47 PM

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hmm

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:47 PM

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hallow plaza should I run this in sudo?

yeah try

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:47 PM

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lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
Output information may be incomplete.

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before going any further, would a reinstall by any chance fix this?

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:49 PM

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it will 100%

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:49 PM

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I

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I'll just back up everything then

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a bit annoying that manjaro's infamous system breaking updates didn'[t bother me one bit, but a bios update caused this

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crazy

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thanks for the help mate

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if I didn't need it for work tomorrow, I would have spent the time to try and fix this

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:53 PM

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yeah unlucky i guess on the device.map

hallow plaza Feb 16, 2023, 8:53 PM

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:/

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well, I'll just close this and finish backing up my things and reinstall

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thanks again and a good night/day to you

steel citrus Feb 16, 2023, 8:54 PM

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