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radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 6:25 AM

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Hey guys, I have been up all night trying to figure out how to do this. I think i might've missed some steps and when I thought I had installed Grub the boot menu would just not show.

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 931.4G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part /boot
└─sda2 8:2 0 930.4G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 930.2G 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 865M 0 part
└─sdb3 8:19 0 449M 0 part
zram0 253:0 0 4G 0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.9T 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1.9T 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 714M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 663M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 1M 0 part

nvme0n1 is my main drive with windows 11 on it. sda is my linux installation and sdb is for lesser important or temporary files since its an HHD

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I am totally new to dualboot. esp with arch. On my laptop i just installed arch on the entire system

torpid vessel Mar 30, 2025, 9:49 AM

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radiant anchor Hey guys, I have been up all night trying to figure out how to do this. I think ...

What does bootctl return?

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 12:44 PM

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torpid vessel What does `bootctl` return?

System:
Firmware: UEFI 2.90 (American Megatrends 5.32)
Firmware Arch: x64
Secure Boot: enabled (user)
TPM2 Support: yes
Measured UKI: no
Boot into FW: supported

Current Boot Loader:
Product: systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch
Features: ✓ Boot counting
✓ Menu timeout control
✓ One-shot menu timeout control
✓ Default entry control
✓ One-shot entry control
✓ Support for XBOOTLDR partition
✓ Support for passing random seed to OS
✓ Load drop-in drivers
✓ Support Type #1 sort-key field
✓ Support @saved pseudo-entry
✓ Support Type #1 devicetree field
✓ Enroll SecureBoot keys
✓ Retain SHIM protocols
✓ Menu can be disabled
✓ Multi-Profile UKIs are supported
✓ Boot loader set partition information
Partition: /dev/disk/by-partuuid/2c9f887b-d055-4906-b370-27fb364df194
Loader: └─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
Current Entry: 2025-03-29_23-01-55_linux.conf

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Random Seed:
System Token: set
Exists: yes

Available Boot Loaders on ESP:
ESP: /boot (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/2c9f887b-d055-4906-b370-27fb364df194)
File: ├─/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi (systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch)
└─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (systemd-boot 257.4-1-arch)

Boot Loaders Listed in EFI Variables:
Title: UEFI OS
ID: 0x0001
Status: active, boot-order
Partition: /dev/disk/by-partuuid/2c9f887b-d055-4906-b370-27fb364df194
File: └─/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI

Boot Loader Entries:
$BOOT: /boot (/dev/disk/by-partuuid/2c9f887b-d055-4906-b370-27fb364df194)
token: arch

Default Boot Loader Entry:
type: Boot Loader Specification Type #1 (.conf)
title: Arch Linux (linux)
id: 2025-03-29_23-01-55_linux.conf
source: /boo
t//loader/entries/2025-03-29_23-01-55_linux.conf (on the EFI System Partition)
linux: /boot//vmlinuz-linux
initrd: /boot//initramfs-linux.img
options: root=PARTUUID=41b03386-b6d3-4507-a918-f53b1fc1b481 zswap.enabled=0 rw rootfstype=btrfs
[benji@archlinux ~]$

abstract mauveBOT Mar 30, 2025, 12:44 PM

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radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 12:45 PM

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uh na

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:42 PM

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radiant anchor Hey guys, I have been up all night trying to figure out how to do this. I think ...

have you made sure to actually tell your bios to boot into arch?

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that partition layout looks fine

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you may have made a mistake elsewhere

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:45 PM

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Most likely, but its okay. I made the decision to entire switch to arch and add windows when I feel like it eventually. I have all my dotfiles from my laptop in my repo anyways so i can just copy everything over. That windows installation was a fresh one as well so i want rlly missing anything

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:45 PM

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That is something I'd advise against, people typically recommend installing windows first

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Because the windows installer tends to mess things up

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:46 PM

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I tried installing windows but it just wouldnt work for me, like nothing worked not even the recovery media

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:46 PM

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You could probably make it work but one wouldn't know

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:46 PM

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radiant anchor I tried installing windows but it just wouldnt work for me, like nothing worked ...

oh?

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~~well isn't that a good thing, you get to use linux full time~~

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:47 PM

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yea i love linux honestly

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im a 1st year comp sci student and just wanna make my entire workspace just as efficient as possible

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but i also want a windows installation to just play games and make vfx on after effects n stuff

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:47 PM

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you can play games on linux

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:47 PM

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but i got two seperate SSD's so that shouldnt be too hard right?

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:48 PM

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hushed ermine you can play games on linux

i mainly play osu stable and counter strike 2

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idk how compatible those are

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i know stable is a dick to set up

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:48 PM

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stable?

radiant anchor Mar 30, 2025, 4:48 PM

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yeah u got two versions of osu! the old version and the new version

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and the old version is not linux compatible but the new version is

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the problem is tho that the rank scores dont count on the new version yet

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so i wouldn't be able to rank up

hushed ermine Mar 30, 2025, 4:49 PM

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oh i see

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well you can run osu stable via wine

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their site claims that at least

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