No bios entry for grub after windows install

[upbeat iron]

title

I'm on arch live iso

[carmine inlet]

run efibootmgr
show me what it says

[upbeat iron]

Intel, vmz and ye are old entries

useless

[carmine inlet]

can you rotate it the image

[upbeat iron]

discord ui is ass

i press send then nothing happens but then all of a sudden there are multiple messages sent

[carmine inlet]

now mount your efi partition

and ls it

[upbeat iron]

i mounted boot

and root

/mnt and /mnt/boot

[carmine inlet]

ls EFI/*

[carmine inlet]

okay just re-run grub-install within arch-chroot /mnt

[carmine inlet]

.aw grub

[loud glen]

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

[carmine inlet]

i didn't mean run grub-install exactly, there are flags and arguments you need to add

[upbeat iron]

I ain't no expert in this 😭

[civic cape]

still need help?

[carmine inlet]

it's okay, it's in the arch wiki

[upbeat iron]

yeah

[upbeat iron]

@civic cape any idea?

[civic cape]

is it fat-32?

[upbeat iron]

no idea, how do I check?

[civic cape]

cfdisk /dev/<ur disk>

[upbeat iron]

bro

somehow after a reboot doing the same steps it... worked

now how do I add the windows boot entry to the grub menu?

[carmine inlet]

see cfdisk

[upbeat iron]

it worked

[civic cape]

uncomment disable os prober in /etc/default/grub

then reconfig grub

..aw grub

bruh why isnt it working

[upbeat iron]

.aw gru

[loud glen]

No results found

[civic cape]

.aw grub

[loud glen]

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

[upbeat iron]

just a period

btw

os-prober does not show windows

[civic cape]

okay

mount ur win efi partition

to any random folder pref an empty one

[upbeat iron]

ok

[civic cape]

done?

[upbeat iron]

im on windows

[civic cape]

...

[loud glen]

Too few arguments for command note!
Usage: .note <name>

[civic cape]

dude boot into arch

no wonder os prober isnt working lmfao

I dont think you're ready for arch yet if you arent willing to research the most bare minimum of things

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Detecting_other_operating_systems

read up

[upbeat iron]

chill 💀

been using linux since 5 years, grub is the only software that pisses me off

[civic cape]

yikes

ur in arch now right

[upbeat iron]

nope

im gonna reboot now

[civic cape]

THEN BOOT INTO A LINUX DISTRO OMFG

[upbeat iron]

chill tf out

wait

I'm in

@civic cape

now what do I do

[civic cape]

aight

mount windows' efi parition

on any random directory

pref an empty one

[upbeat iron]

it does not want to be mounted

[civic cape]

not the iso man

have you even installed arch

?

[upbeat iron]

bro

[civic cape]

???

[upbeat iron]

...

[loud glen]

Too few arguments for command note!
Usage: .note <name>

[civic cape]

why are you trying to configure grub

if you havent installed the system

?

[upbeat iron]

look

I had arch before

sda1 and sda2

[civic cape]

okay?

[upbeat iron]

I installed windows on sda3 and sda4

like sda3 is windows boot thing afaik

and 4 is like the root partition of windows

now what do I do to boot into windows from grub

I can boot to my arch install now but the menu doesn't have windows

I hope you get it

[civic cape]

boot into arch

then

[upbeat iron]

ok

[civic cape]

come back to me

[upbeat iron]

😳

[civic cape]

😦

[upbeat iron]

I have gruv

grub*

I just need windows option there too

you feel me

I'm on arch now

lemmi screenshare

@civic cape https://discord.com/channels/399812551963049995/399813342564188161

wake up 😢

[carmine inlet]

install os-prober

then enable os-prober in grub config

then grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg again

[upbeat iron]

nice

[civic cape]

thanks