I’m considering updating the win10 on my laptop to win11. Right now it’s dual boot with endeavor as my daily driver, but I occasionally need a bare metal windows so I keep it around. The laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad carbon X1, secure boot is turned off, and using grub as the boot manager.
Just looking for local experience, what are the gotchas ect. I’m currently backing up my home drive, and I’m considering backing up an image of the partition in case thing go very wrong. I’ll probably back up all the grub stuff just for safe keeping.
Windows may not overwrite your EndeavourOS boot entry if it is not at top. Before upgrading, go to your UEFI menu, put Windows to the top of the boot menu so laptop directly boots to Win, perform upgrade and put EndeavourOS back to top. If Windows doesn’t decide to consume EnOS boot entry, everything should work just fine.
The esp in ArchWiki is a placeholder, indicating you should fill it as required ie. /boot/efi on Endeavour.
What you set for --bootloader-id is really up to you.
@mrvictory Thanks for this bit of advice! I moved the windows boot entry to the top of the boot stack and did the update to from Windows 10 → 11 without a hitch! it didn’t touch grub at all. After rebooting I moved grub back to the top and everything works!