#[SOLVED] Trying to dualboot windows and arch linux

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swift turret
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I should say that grub stopped loading after I used this command:

sudo mount /dev/nvme0xxx (windows efi) /mnt
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I still hae a live USB with arch on it. I won't touch anything until someone is kind of enough to guide me through this.

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I should say that I've already installed arch linux properly and sway and configured it all out, so it would be really nice if I could recover and get into grub somehow instead of having to wipe and restart

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The only part I messed up was figuring out how to mount windows efi so grub could detect windows boot manager, that seemed to break it

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and I think it's because I used /mnt instead of /boot/efi

trail stirrup
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ok

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dual booting with windows isnt as difficult as it can seem

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first of all

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will u use different disks for linux and windows or do u want to install them on the same disk

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?

swift turret
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I only have 1 ssd

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so It would be the same one

trail stirrup
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ok nice

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first of all u need to boot into windows

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and go to the disk manager

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u can open it by pressing win + r

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then type diskmgmt.msc

swift turret
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okay let me clarify: I've done all of the steps you're about to mention, I've created a new partition, used rufus to get arch on my usb, installed arch linux, setup user and all of the things mentioned in thsi video here up to 18:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxqU1G8hKWk

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trail stirrup
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ok so u are quite done

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then

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what do u have left to do?

swift turret
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almost, because grub didn't detect windows boot manager, so I tried the os-prober thing and uncommented something in a file

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but it still wouldn't detect windows

trail stirrup
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ahhh ol

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ok

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one sec

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i cannot help a lot with the os prober cause i just do not use it

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i prefer just selecting the OS with the boot menu in my uefi

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i think its the best option cause it is just simple

swift turret
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Fair enough, but now I have another problem which is that grub doesn't load

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so if we can just fix that then I will also just stick to uefi

trail stirrup
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ok i can help with that

trail stirrup
trail stirrup
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it does not boot?

swift turret
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so I'm only able to load into windows if I turn on safe mode or secure boot (whatever it's called)

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and then I can use windows

dark moth
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instead of 11 which requires secure boot

swift turret
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yea fair not but the issue right now is still that grub doesn't load

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what do you recommend?

dark moth
swift turret
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could you please read the entire thing I wrote above

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if you intend to help atleast

dark moth
swift turret
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after inserting that command yes

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it's still in the BIOS settings

dark moth
swift turret
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I can see it in the boot order part of the bios

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is what I meant

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but I cant actually boot into it

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because it just crashes and sends me to diagnostics

swift turret
dark moth
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you can boot into a live cd and install

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grub

swift turret
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sure I can do that yea

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but I would have to start from scratch then no?

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wipe the partition

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and reinstall arch?

dark moth
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well I think this would be the best solution

swift turret
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damn

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unfortunate

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well anything I should keep in mind to do this properly next time?

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because I spent pretty much my entire day today trying to dualboot

dark moth
swift turret
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yes, that's what I did initially and then I uncommented the line at the bottom of the grub config file

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which still didn't detect windows boot manager

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which led me to believe that the efi of windows wasn't mounted properly

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for grub to detect it

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so I used that command u see above

dark moth
swift turret
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yes'

dark moth
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in this case, you most likely did something wrong when installing it

swift turret
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installing arch or ?

dark moth
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yes

swift turret
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you're probably right

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but are there any guides you can recommend, I'm almost certain I did everything in accordance to the video I followed

dark moth
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if you're having trouble installing arch properly because it's actually supposed to install, you might want to try a more user-friendly method

swift turret
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you mean the script?

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archinstall script?

dark moth
swift turret
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what other ways are there?

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that are user friendly?

dark moth
swift turret
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not sure if it's userfriendliness I need or just a proper guide

dark moth
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I think the graphical installer will install correctly

swift turret
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Alright, I'll try this tomorrow, hopefully it works. This is also Arch Linux right?

dark moth
swift turret
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Sounds good, thank you

swift turret
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@dark moth after installing arch linux again using this gui, how would I configure dualbooting with os-prober?

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is it just as simple as installing os-prober and running the command sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

dark moth
silver pagoda
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grub found entry of windows already!? if yaa mark this as [SOLVED] - thanks:)

swift turret
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nope, still struggling

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anyone awake?

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the acli didn't work unfortunately.

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I'm getting "Failed to mount 'UUID***'"

swift turret
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I'm trying to completely uninstall grub now but it's still in my bios

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not sure why it's there

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It's in the Boot Sequnce

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Sequence*

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Don't know how to remove it

spring river
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i still have ubuntu in my boot menu from a long gone installation too

swift turret
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Okay I found out you can delete them with Visual BCD

spring river
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oh cool

swift turret
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Do you know what this Arch Linux Calamares is?

spring river
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nope

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i don't use linux, i'm still on windows until moza racing, fanatec, and oculus support linux because i have $4k+ worth of sim racing hardware and vr headsets that aren't linux compatible

swift turret
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I think I'll just drop dualbooting

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and stick to arch linux

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this is my 'play' laptop anyway

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I just want to use it for pwn challenges