Double entry in BOOT (BIOS)

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hello,

After installing Endeavour on my laptop with Arch, I can see two entries in BOOT:

20240704_154532
20240704_1545321920×1440 169 KB

Is it all right? If not, how can I get rid of the second mysterios one?

Thank you.

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What says:

efibootmgr

?

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BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0002,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* HDD0: KINGSTON OM8PCP3512F-AA	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xe,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,00-26-B7-68-59-34-8E-F5)/HD(1,GPT,f47ee519-6cf8-4d91-9570-413abb51d246,0x1000,0x200000)RC
Boot0002* endeavouros	HD(1,GPT,f47ee519-6cf8-4d91-9570-413abb51d246,0x1000,0x200000)/\EFI\endeavouros\grubx64.efi
Boot2001* EFI USB Device	RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM	RC
Boot2003* EFI Network	RC
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It looks alright. However Boot0002* endeavouros shoul be first in boot order normally.

Edit:
Could you also post tree /boot/efi ?

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$ tree /boot/efi
/boot/efi  [error opening dir]

0 directories, 1 file
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Try:sudo tree /boot/efi

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/boot/efi
└── EFI
├── boot
│ └── bootx64.efi
└── endeavouros
└── grubx64.efi

4 directories, 2 files

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It looks fine.

I would just put 0002 first in the boot order:

sudo efibootmgr -o 0002,0000,2001,2002,2003

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$ sudo efibootmgr -o 0002,0000,2001,2002,2003

BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0000,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* HDD0: KINGSTON OM8PCP3512F-AA PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xe,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,00-26-B7-68-59-34-8E-F5)/HD(1,GPT,f47ee519-6cf8-4d91-9570-413abb51d246,0x1000,0x200000)RC
Boot0002* endeavouros HD(1,GPT,f47ee519-6cf8-4d91-9570-413abb51d246,0x1000,0x200000)/\EFI\endeavouros\grubx64.efi
Boot2001* EFI USB Device RC
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM RC
Boot2003* EFI Network RC

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Everything look alright now?

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Yes. It’s all good.

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Thank you very much!

While we’re at it, I have a couple of more questions:

My laptop is 16GB RAM, 11th Gen. Intel i7, 512GB SSD. Should I choose Grub or System… (don’t remember)? And which is better - swap file or swap part?

O, and what about Fast Boot?

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You have already Grub installed.

I would just leave it at that.

swapfile is more flexible if you ever need to resize it at some point. From the functional point of view I would say they are equivalent.

In the Bios settings? I see some people recommend disabling it.
I have a Dell machine running Arch. Fast Boot is enabled in the Bios settings and I am not having any issues.

For those dual-booting with Windows, it is rather appropriate to disable Fast Startup in the power management settings within Windows if they are going to mount some shared partitions in Linux.

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Thank you very much again!