Help with systemd-boot please

General system Installation
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If I could get some help here please…
my system has 3 nvme drives in it.
I have windows 11 on first drive
on the second drive I have 4 different linux distro’s that I boot with systemd-boot
On the 3rd drive I have a fedora distro that I can not for the life of me figure out how to include in my main systemd-boot menu.
Right now I hit the F8 boot key to boot from the fedora disk.
Is it possible to include that disk in my systemd-boot menu also.
I use the systemd-boot menu to boot windows 11 also.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Dave

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Can we see the output of sudo parted -l

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Hi
Dalto
sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for dave:
Model: CT1000T700SSD3 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 16.8MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
2 16.8MB 10.5GB 10.5GB fat32 ESP boot, esp
3 10.5GB 115GB 105GB btrfs
4 115GB 220GB 105GB btrfs
5 220GB 325GB 105GB btrfs
6 325GB 336GB 10.5GB ntfs msftdata
7 336GB 545GB 210GB btrfs

Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO 1TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme2n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 630MB 629MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 630MB 1704MB 1074MB ext4
3 1704MB 527GB 525GB btrfs
4 527GB 537GB 10.5GB ntfs msftdata

Model: CT2000T700SSD3 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB msftres
2 135MB 240MB 105MB fat32 boot, esp
3 240MB 2000GB 1999GB ntfs msftdata
4 2000GB 2000GB 708MB ntfs diag

Thanks for the help

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It looks like each disk has a separate ESP.

  1. There are two ways to address this. Change fedora to use the same ESP as the other Linux distros use.
  2. Follow this method on how to boot from a separate ESP.
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for windows I just copied the files to the esp. Is it possible to do this for fedora too?

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and set up loader/entries with fedora?

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I tried unsuccessfully to do it that way, and I don’t know why I could just point the bootloader to that disk. I must have had something wrong

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Yes you can copy them and create a simple entry. However, you will need to recopy them whenever they are updated.