boot into windows from arch

[median aspen]

Hello,

I frequently have to reboot my pc to get into windows and it is getting quite annoying to navigate the grub menu and select windows. Is there a button perhaps that enables you to boot directly into windows? I remember there being a feature like this when i dual booted windows with my old mac a few years ago. Cheers

[misty pier]

man systemctl

[median aspen]

how do i use that option

[misty pier]

Never used it, test it out and see

systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=whatevertheentryis

[median aspen]

this entry has spaces in it, how do you think i would enter it?

[misty pier]

I'd try using quotes

"Windows Boot Manager"

[median aspen]

probs cant see that but it says not valid, refusing

[misty pier]

Could just try using a number, I would test with you but I don't use a bootloader

[median aspen]

hmm i tried a number just now and it gave the same error

[misty pier]

try sudo systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=help

[misty pier]

Is there no windows entry shown?

Could try this too: sudo systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=auto-windows

I'm just googling for you to find answers at this point though

[median aspen]

oh damn dont worry abt it then i did a bit of googling just didnt find what u r finding lol

will google harder

[delicate burrow]

@median aspen try this https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140049

[median aspen]

nah that didnt work either

[delicate burrow]

or this https://github.com/kaipee/grub-reboot2win

[misty pier]

Are you sure your grub has a windows entry? It's weird it doesn't show up in: sudo systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=help

[median aspen]

i followed a weird tutorial that fixed some archinstall issue when dualbooting so thats probs why im not finding something, but it does show up as windows boot manager

[median aspen]

didnt have success with this

[median aspen]

This didn’t work either

[delicate burrow]

@median aspen did you read the .sh?

and is zenity installed?

[median aspen]

zenity is installed but sudo update-grub doesnt work

[delicate burrow]

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

[median aspen]

nah the script doesnt work for me

i press yes and it boots back into arch

[delicate burrow]

make sure you have GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in your grub config

[median aspen]

yeah it is

[delicate burrow]

from /etc/default/grub

[median aspen]

yep

[delicate burrow]

Find grub menu entries

grep -i "menuentry '" /boot/grub/grub.cfg

[median aspen]

not sure if i needed to cross that stuff out lol

[prime wagon]

Are you sure this feature isn’t systemd-boot specific

That’s the only way I’ve ever seen this done

[misty pier]

oooo i didn't think of that!!! So true

I just assumed since --firmware-setup works T_T

[prime wagon]

That functions differently iirc

Sets an efi variable or something

[misty pier]

yeah makes sense after thinking about it

Well, you could always switch to systemd-boot and solve your problem then 😛

[prime wagon]

I’ve got another (untested) idea. You can configure GRUB to boot into the last used entry. If you modify the file that stores the last used option, you could set it to the one that corresponds with Windows.

Then you’d probably want a script in Windows as well to change it back to Arch’s boot entry

Oh, hey, this looks like exactly what you want @median aspen: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Boot_non-default_entry_only_once

Looks like that does something similar to what I was describing

[night quest]

Ari is close with their suggestion, what you are after is actually this link https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Recall_previous_entry

@median aspen

[prime wagon]

I thought they wanted do it one time. Setting up for grub-reboot enables that anyway.

[night quest]

I understood it as they want to boot into Windows and be able to boot into it again without selecting it from the menu

[prime wagon]

Hmm, either way they know what to do now

[night quest]

In order to do it with your link they have to uncomment a line in the link I sent

They just need to read section 8 of the grub wiki page

[median aspen]

im most likely just being stupid but im not sure how to do this lol

nvm i think i figured it out. i have to run two commands:

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg```

but how do i make these two into like a file which i click and it executes so i dont have to put it in the terminal every time?

[prime wagon]

You can also just use the number of the entry, starting from 0.

[prime wagon]

Create a script or desktop file and use pkexec instead of sudo