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rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:17 PM

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what the hell

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why is that entry for efibootmgr so big?

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and yeah, grub isn't there

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when you installed grub did you do it on the same efi partition as windows efi, or it's own one?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:18 PM

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gave me the option to either choose the existing one or make a new one

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:18 PM

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and you selected?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:18 PM

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so I chose the existing one

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:18 PM

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I always like to have it on a dedicated one, so that windows is less likely to fuck with it

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and if anything goes wrong, I can just start fresh without worrying about messing with windows shit lol

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which is what I suggest we do this time, can you make a 1 gig efi partition?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:20 PM

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absolutely, one sec

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:21 PM

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make it fat 32, and then mount it to either /boot or /boot/efi, which ever you prefer, you can check which you had by checking the /etc/fstab file if you mount your root partition

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in case I'm not here when you need help:

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.aw grub

true badgerBOT Mar 28, 2024, 6:25 PM

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rigid sand .aw grub

Grub

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

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:26 PM

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you'll want to install grub, install the kernel, and make the configuration

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you'll also want to make sure that your /etc/fstab aligns with your UUID's

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mount all the drives in /etc/fstab manually, and then run lsblk -f to make sure the UUID's are correct

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you can just comment out the windows efi instead though

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you may need to remake the grub-mkconfig if windows isn't showing up by booting into your system and making sure os-prober is installed and enabled, and that your windows drive is mounted

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:30 PM

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Much appreciated - in Gparted at the moment, and it does not seem to give me the option to make a new partition

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:31 PM

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does it say why?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:34 PM

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Had to resize an existing partition to make the space, there we go

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:35 PM

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personally I use fdisk, most people use cfdisk, but yeah, whatever works, just remember, EFI

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:36 PM

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Tbh might do that. Doesn't give me an option to make this one efi

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:36 PM

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you already have the unallocated space so, yeah

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or if you made it, just delete it using one of those two, and remake it

tropic herald Mar 28, 2024, 6:37 PM

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I would save the changes so far in gparted, then use gdisk to create the partition, as you can set the type to ef00 easily via the tui

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:38 PM

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tropic herald I would save the changes so far in gparted, then use gdisk to create the partiti...

lol, you can set efi easily in fdisk and cfdisk too, but, it's all much the sameness

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did you look at the efibootmgr above @tropic herald ?

tropic herald Mar 28, 2024, 6:40 PM

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rigid sand did you look at the efibootmgr above <@348201566903336961> ?

yes, something happened to it for sure

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 6:43 PM

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What if I were to start with a clean slate? Haven't done much on Linux yet so wouldn't mind just reinstalling it. This time I would have it make a new EFI partition instead of using the existing one

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@rigid sand

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 6:45 PM

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I mean you can, but, why?

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it's just the bootloader

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what's the problem?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 7:40 PM

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rigid sand what's the problem?

Ended up reinstalling and had it make a new EFI partition. Doesn't appear in boot order now either

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pretty lost tbh, not sure how to make it appear. Also wouldn't mind not using grub and adding it to the windows boot manager instead

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 7:46 PM

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umbral sonnet Ended up reinstalling and had it make a new EFI partition. Doesn't appear in boo...

did you install grub to the efi partition as per the wiki article I gave you?

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show me lsblk -f

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once you've mounted root and boot

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.s rs

true badgerBOT Mar 28, 2024, 8:00 PM

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rigid sand .s rs

<command to print output> |& curl --data-binary @- https://paste.rs

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:05 PM

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rigid sand did you install grub to the efi partition as per the wiki article I gave you?

Let me show you where I'm at right now

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this is the EFI that endeavor automatically made it would appear

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here's the main endeavor partition

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here's the main windows partition

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:11 PM

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umbral sonnet

With this, it gives me the option to edit mount point as well if that helps

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:15 PM

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umbral sonnet

@tropic herald

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:35 PM

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Trying to follow your guide Vegan but completely lost at this point tbh. Also for some reason Windows has disappeared from bios as well

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And I boot into the error "file /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod" not found

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 9:44 PM

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Mount the efi and look at what’s in it

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If you’ve done a fresh install I don’t understand how it could be broken

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Is the new grub the default boot option?

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:48 PM

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rigid sand Is the new grub the default boot option?

I don't understand it either 🤷‍♂️ but yeah grub is default now, just that when it boots into it that error pops up
Cut off one head, two more grow back lol

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 9:49 PM

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umbral sonnet I don't understand it either 🤷‍♂️ but yeah grub is default now, just that when ...

Yeah Mount the boot in the iso, and then ls it

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:51 PM

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rigid sand Yeah Mount the boot in the iso, and then ls it

How would I do that? I'm in KDE partition manager at the moment, and it does give me the option to edit mount point, no mount point is set at the moment though

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 9:52 PM

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Open a terminal

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mount —mkdir /dev/partition you want /myveryspecialmountpoint

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Change the partition and the mountpoint

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:54 PM

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So my EFI partition is /dev/sda1
and my main endeavor partition is /dev/sda6

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 9:54 PM

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Just do the efi

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We just want to look at it for now

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 9:56 PM

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NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs sda ├─sda1 vfat FAT32 CC9E-1FB7 68.7M 28% /myveryspecialmountpoint ├─sda2 ├─sda3 ntfs AEB05A2FB059FE71 ├─sda4 ntfs 026489DE6489D4B7 ├─sda5 ntfs 24F44403F443D628 └─sda6 ext4 1.0 endeavouros 62ab8c9c-6e6b-4d4a-b9b0-0bbaee925c26 sdb iso9660 Joliet Extensio EOS_202401 2024-01-25-18-25-14-00 ├─sdb1 iso9660 Joliet Extensio EOS_202401 2024-01-25-18-25-14-00 0 100% /run/archiso/bootmnt └─sdb2 vfat FAT16 ARCHISO_EFI 8093-0377 sr0

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^ results of lsblk -f

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 10:02 PM

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Yeah, you need to mount

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 10:12 PM

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rigid sand Yeah, you need to mount

How does this look?
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS loop0 squashfs 4.0 0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs sda ├─sda1 vfat FAT32 CC9E-1FB7 68.5M 29% /mnt/boot/efi ├─sda2 ├─sda3 ntfs AEB05A2FB059FE71 ├─sda4 ntfs 026489DE6489D4B7 ├─sda5 ntfs 24F44403F443D628 └─sda6 ext4 1.0 endeavouros 62ab8c9c-6e6b-4d4a-b9b0-0bbaee925c26 424.6G 2% /mnt sdb iso9660 Joliet Extension EOS_202401 2024-01-25-18-25-14-00 ├─sdb1 iso9660 Joliet Extension EOS_202401 2024-01-25-18-25-14-00 0 100% /run/archiso/bootmnt └─sdb2 vfat FAT16 ARCHISO_EFI 8093-0377 sr0

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 10:13 PM

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ls /mnt/boot/efi

umbral sonnet Mar 28, 2024, 10:13 PM

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EFI 'System Volume Information'

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all it says @rigid sand

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command I ran to install grub was
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=endeavour

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Does this
efi-directory=/boot/efi
need to be this
efi-directory=/mnt/boot/efi

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 10:37 PM

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umbral sonnet Does this efi-directory=/boot/efi need to be this efi-directory=/mnt/boot/efi

It does if you aren’t chrooted

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 10:37 PM

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umbral sonnet `EFI 'System Volume Information'`

There’s no kernel or config

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Unmount your boot, Mount your root, mount your boot into the root, and then arch-chroot into the root, reinstall the kernel, and make the grub-mkconfig

rigid sand Mar 28, 2024, 10:57 PM

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oh I didn't see on mobile you had root mounted already

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