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

j_c · April 16, 2023, 7:44pm

What worked until now:

Installed EOS with no bootloader.
Logged in with the live iso usb
Mounted sda6 and sda7
arch-chroot /mnt
Ran command
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=EnOS --no-nvram --removable

And this is where it is now without freeze

petsam · April 16, 2023, 7:45pm

It should show paths of bootloaders.

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 7:48pm

So it’s installing grub to /efi as opposed to trying to write it to another path where it freezes correct?

pebcak · April 16, 2023, 7:50pm

@j_c

Hopefully, if everything will work as it should, you will need to change the UUID for your ESP in fstab.

As it is is now, the UUID is for /dev/sda2. You need to change that for the UUID of /dev/sda6.

j_c · April 16, 2023, 7:51pm

[root@EndeavourOS /]# efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,0000,0001,2002,2003
Boot0000* 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
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager	HD(6,GPT,736dee16-9cb5-2948-9fb7-ccb87eedfef0,0xe704404,0x1f4000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)RC
      dp: 04 01 2a 00 06 00 00 00 04 44 70 0e 00 00 00 00 00 40 1f 00 00 00 00 00 16 ee 6d 73 b5 9c 48 29 9f b7 cc b8 7e ed fe f0 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: 52 43
Boot0002* 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
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 · April 16, 2023, 7:55pm

Please post the terminal output as text.

It make it easier to copy, quote for the sake of commenting and troubleshooting.

Copy, paste, highlight and press Ctrl-E to format for better readability.

PS-
I see no enty for EnOS. What a bummer.
However, there are two for Windows Boot Manager. Why is that?

petsam · April 16, 2023, 7:57pm

Post

ls -R /efi

and

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 7:57pm

Why does everbody use efibootmgr with the verbose flag. It’s way easier to understand without it.

petsam · April 16, 2023, 7:58pm

But it is not enough to troubleshoot.

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 7:58pm

Why? What do all those characters tell you?

j_c · April 16, 2023, 7:59pm

[root@EndeavourOS /]# ls -R /efi
/efi:
 EFI   loader  'System Volume Information'

/efi/EFI:
BOOT  Linux  Microsoft	systemd

/efi/EFI/BOOT:
BOOTX64.EFI

/efi/EFI/Linux:

/efi/EFI/Microsoft:
Boot  Recovery

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot:
BCD	      BOOTSTAT.DAT  en-US  fr-FR	   kd_02_1137.dll  kd_07_1415.dll	memtest.efi  Resources	 tr-TR
BCD.LOG       boot.stl	    es-ES  hr-HR	   kd_02_14e4.dll  kd_0C_8086.dll	nb-NO	     ro-RO	 uk-UA
BCD.LOG1      cs-CZ	    es-MX  hu-HU	   kd_02_15b3.dll  kdnet_uart16550.dll	nl-NL	     ru-RU	 winsipolicy.p7b
BCD.LOG2      da-DK	    et-EE  it-IT	   kd_02_1969.dll  kdstub.dll		pl-PL	     sk-SK	 zh-CN
bg-BG	      de-DE	    fi-FI  ja-JP	   kd_02_19a2.dll  ko-KR		pt-BR	     sl-SI	 zh-TW
bootmgfw.efi  el-GR	    Fonts  kd_02_10df.dll  kd_02_1af4.dll  lt-LT		pt-PT	     sr-Latn-RS
bootmgr.efi   en-GB	    fr-CA  kd_02_10ec.dll  kd_02_8086.dll  lv-LV		qps-ploc     sv-SE

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bg-BG:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/cs-CZ:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/da-DK:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/de-DE:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/el-GR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/en-GB:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/en-US:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/es-ES:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/es-MX:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/et-EE:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/fi-FI:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/Fonts:
chs_boot.ttf  jpn_boot.ttf  malgun_boot.ttf   meiryo_boot.ttf	msjh_boot.ttf	msyh_boot.ttf	segmono_boot.ttf   segoe_slboot.ttf
cht_boot.ttf  kor_boot.ttf  malgunn_boot.ttf  meiryon_boot.ttf	msjhn_boot.ttf	msyhn_boot.ttf	segoen_slboot.ttf  wgl4_boot.ttf

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/fr-CA:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/fr-FR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/hr-HR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/hu-HU:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/it-IT:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ja-JP:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ko-KR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/lt-LT:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/lv-LV:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/nb-NO:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/nl-NL:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/pl-PL:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/pt-BR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/pt-PT:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/qps-ploc:
memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/Resources:
bootres.dll  da-DK  en-US

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/Resources/da-DK:
bootres.dll.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/Resources/en-US:
bootres.dll.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ro-RO:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ru-RU:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/sk-SK:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/sl-SI:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/sr-Latn-RS:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/sv-SE:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/tr-TR:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/uk-UA:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/zh-CN:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/zh-TW:
bootmgfw.efi.mui  bootmgr.efi.mui  memtest.efi.mui

/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Recovery:
BCD  BCD.LOG  BCD.LOG1	BCD.LOG2

/efi/EFI/systemd:
systemd-bootx64.efi

/efi/loader:
entries  loader.conf  random-seed

/efi/loader/entries:

'/efi/System Volume Information':
[root@EndeavourOS /]#

pebcak · April 16, 2023, 7:59pm

Verbose is nice. Tells you everything and the gossip from neighborhood as well

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 8:00pm

I’m being serious here?

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

This is meaningless to me.

pebcak · April 16, 2023, 8:02pm

You are right!

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 8:02pm

Like isn’t this enough?

[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0002
Boot0000* boot  HD(1,GPT,c75e5cad-9115-4dc4-9673-24053104a4ba,0x800,0xff801)/File(\EFI\BOOT\GRUBX64.EFI)
Boot0001* UEFI OS       HD(1,GPT,1b441393-366d-b848-be84-36aa24726c6f,0x1000,0x1f4000)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)0000424f
Boot0002* UEFI OS       HD(1,GPT,c75e5cad-9115-4dc4-9673-24053104a4ba,0x800,0xff801)/File(\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI)0000424f

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 8:08pm

@pebcak
So please give me an explanation as to how i see this? There is the original Windows efi and the OP was installing with system-d boot which has it’s own efi which is larger. So then did the OP switch to grub? And the installer was trying to write it to the Windows efi and it was freezing? I kind of got lost half way through all this.

pebcak · April 16, 2023, 8:13pm

I am almost right with you there

According to current /etc/fstab, /dev/sda2 is mounted at /efi.
So I guess that is where we need to be installing the bootloader.

/dev/sda6 seems to contain anything but grub

Color me confused

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 8:14pm

This is why I’m confused also? I would have thought based on the Acer link that it was failing to write to the Windows efi.

Edit: So is it grub or systemd-boot?

j_c · April 16, 2023, 8:16pm

One of the times I tried installing, I tried with systemd boot but it froze. Next time I installed without bootloader, and replaced the partition for the root and kept sda6 that 1gb and the installer used that. and after that we have been trying to install grub

ricklinux · April 16, 2023, 8:17pm

That’s what i thought but i just wanted to clarify. I’m so confused.