Help to install bootloader on dual boot (windows 10/endeavouros)

Yes but the terminal is frozen, cannot do anything other than reboot

Thats fine thanks :+1:t3:

I see. If everything is frozen then I guess we cannot get that log file. What a bummer!

Could you try deleting the partitions you have made and choose the automatic installation instead of the manual?

Go with the defaults. That would be BTRFS and systemd-boot.

I guess so. There is 4 different kinds of installation right?
1.Alongside
2.Replace a partition
3.Erase disk
4. Manual

which one?

I haven’t looked at the installer for quite a while but I am sure you will find the right option.

It might be Alongside then. Or Replace Partition.

Definitely not 3 and 4.

If you followed pebcak, and deleted the partitions you created before, it would be no. 2.
…potentially you would also need to create a new (empty) partition for that (replace partition), just to be sure.

Ok I’ll give it a shot. thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

Ahha, everything installed now, but on reboot it goes into windows. So I gotta find out what key to press during start

https://0x0.st/H8oi.txt

got into the uefi on startup but only windows boot as number 1
and HDD: Kingston as number 2
no endeavouros…

:+1: also think so…

Could you boot up your live usb and post the output of:

sudo parted -l
efibootmgr -v

Just skimping through the log, it looks like no new EFI was set up during the installation.
For systemd-boot EnOS sets up an ESP of 1G size.

PYTHON JOB]: "Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type\n" 
[PYTHON JOB]: "/dev/sda1       2048    923647    921600   450M Windows recovery environment\n" 
[PYTHON JOB]: "/dev/sda2     923648   1542239    618592   302M EFI System\n" 
[PYTHON JOB]: "/dev/sda3    1542240 231846149 230303910 109.8G Microsoft basic data\n" 
[PYTHON JOB]: "/dev/sda4  499054592 500115455   1060864   518M Windows recovery environment\n" 
[PYTHON JOB]: "/dev/sda5  231846150 499054591 267208442 127.4G Linux filesystem\n"

I would delete /dev/sd5 and make the following partition using Gparted in live session:

  1. 1000 MiB FAT32 as ESP
  2. the rest of the disk EXT4 as root system

Then I would choose the manual install:
mount ESP at /efi flag boot
mount root system at / no flag

Also go with systemd-boot.

[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA KINGSTON RBUSC18 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 256GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name                  Flags
 1      1049kB  473MB  472MB  ntfs         Basic data partition  hidden, diag
 2      473MB   790MB  317MB  fat32        EFI system partition  boot, esp
 3      790MB   119GB  118GB  ntfs         Basic data partition  msftdata
 5      119GB   256GB  137GB  ext4         endeavouros
 4      256GB   256GB  543MB  ntfs                               hidden, diag


Model: SEMC SD CCR-80 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.9GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size   Type     File system  Flags
 2      1940MB  2060MB  120MB  primary  fat16        esp
[liveuser@eos-2023.03.26 ~]$ efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* USB HDD: Generic STORAGE DEVICE	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x15,0x0)/USB(3,0)/HD(1,MBR,0x4d909e77,0x39d480,0x39000)RC
      dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 15 / 03 05 06 00 03 00 / 04 01 2a 00 01 00 00 00 80 d4 39 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 03 00 00 00 00 00 77 9e 90 4d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 01 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 52 43
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager	HD(2,GPT,63bace09-3141-403c-90df-38dae4e5a336,0xe1800,0x97060)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000065000100000010000000040000007fff0400
      dp: 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 00 18 0e 00 00 00 00 00 60 70 09 00 00 00 00 00 09 ce ba 63 41 31 3c 40 90 df 38 da e4 e5 a3 36 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00
    data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 65 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00
Boot2001* EFI USB Device	RC
      dp: 7f ff 04 00
    data: 52 43
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM	RC
      dp: 7f ff 04 00
    data: 52 43
Boot2003* EFI Network	RC
      dp: 7f ff 04 00
    data: 52 43

@pebcak what do you think about a new install “alongside” to win ?
Using grub and the ESP of win ?
(EOS does take about 1MB only when running grub, — so at my EOS )

That’s also a valid option.

Sommehow, previously OP’s attempt at installing Grub had failed. We could never know why that happened since no log could be retrieved because system froze up

The ‘manual’ option have been tried many times with both systemd-boot and grub. All same results - frozen system. Also tried a slightly older installer offline.
So I guess the only thing I havn’t tried yet is the ‘alongside’ version. But what about the disk partitions. Then you install on ntfs?

no ntfs for EOS

I know but if I install alongside windows that is on ntfs

yes, alongside win, but that doesn’t mean in ntfs
choose ext4 (or btrfs)

I see :+1:t3: guess I have to merge my two partitions dev/sda3 and dev/sda5 before I start the install, so that the installer can do the shrinking of the windows partition…

I would delete sda5 only