Is there anyway to turn secure boot on and remove secure boot keys in the bios and then turn it back off. Not sure if it would make any difference but I usually remove the secure keys and then turn it off.
Edit: Also is bitlocker turned off or maybe it doesn’t have bitlocker. Depends on the Windows version.
I am using an Acer ES1-132. I didn’t have this freezing problems but also problems regarding the detection of my Arch installation as bootable.
I had to copy the .efi-file and rename it to the place and name of the Windows .efi-file. It runs like that since 2017 or so.
Just recently I was stumbleing upon that:
It’s not the first post on the linked page. I refer to the one by Zanna from 03.09.2017 20:23
So maybe try using a different path in your command here.
E.g. \EFI\Linux\BOOTX64.efi instead of \EFI\EnOS\grubx64.efi
I copied my .efi file to (esp)\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
I haven’t tried the other paths as I did that before I discovered that link from the ubuntu forum.
Just an idea that I wanted to share.
It took me quite long to find that out when I first tried to install Linux on that Laptop. I also don’t understand why some Laptop manufacturer would create such restrictions.
Also: if that should really work, make sure to have a pacman hook to copy the .efi to the place where it needs to be. Otherwise it might happen that you cannot boot after the .efi got replaced through an update. Not hard to repair but annoying.
I did not see any confirmation for success from OP.
We can work with this issue.
When/if the bootloader file is successfully created on disk, we can copy it to the default location, copying the file directly. Actually, OP can try the grub-install command, adding --removable