GRUB is gone after new drive install

[dalto]

@nickbrandt

. Does the autogeneration of entries look for any bootable media it can find, or is it scoped to the same device that it running from?

It is looking for Windows EFI files is in the same ESP is booting out of.

@nickbrandt

is it possible for me to manually remove this broken windows EFI

Yes, delete the Windows related files in /efi/EFI

@nickbrandt

point systemd to one on another, separate disk?

Either copy the files from your other EFI directory to /efi/EFI or follow this tutorial:

[Tutorial] Add a systemd-boot loader Menu entry for a Windows installation using a separate ESP Partition

here’s a tutorial on how to get a Windows-entry in systemd-boot in case you use separate ESP partitions for Windows and Linux, with help taken from the Arch Systemd Boot Wiki entry. It is recommended that Fast Boot is disabled in UEFI as it can lead to several issues especially when dual booting - at least for me, it has no influence on boot time anyway. Install edk2-shell: sudo pacman -S edk2-shell copy that to your esp-partition: sudo cp /usr/share/edk2-shell/x64/Shell.efi ESP/shellx6…