Restore grub after window 8 installation

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I guys I make a mess with my endeavour installation and I don’t know hot to solve this without format again everything.

I had an SSD with:
Win 10 + endeavour single ext4 partition.

For some incompatibility with laptop I’ve get rid of win 10 and install win 8.1 but as I thought now boot is messed and I can only boot win.

I tried to restore grub with live USB but it doesn’t work or maybe I’ve followed the wrong steps.

Can you please help me to solve this so I can also understand what happened?

Thanks

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Hi @manadipendente and welcome to EnOS’ forum!

Please boot up your live usb and run the following command in a terminal:

sudo parted -l

and

efibootmgr -v

Copy the output and paste it to your reply using the </> button to format. Hopefully this will give enough info about your setup to some forum member who can help you out.

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PARTED

Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZ7TE256 (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  106MB   105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      106MB   123MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      123MB   83.9GB  83.8GB  ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      83.9GB  256GB   172GB   ext4         root


Model:  USB DISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8054MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name       Flags
 1      32.8kB  1963MB  1963MB               ISO9660    hidden
 2      1963MB  2066MB  103MB   fat16        Appended2  boot, esp
 3      2066MB  2066MB  307kB                Gap1       hidden, msftdata

EFIBOOT

BootCurrent: 0020
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0001,001B,001C,001D,001E,001F,0020,0021
Boot0001* EndeavourOS	HD(1,GPT,f0328a4a-a3ef-4279-bfd4-37cae381dfa0,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\EndeavourOS\grubx64.efi)
Boot0002* Windows Boot Manager	HD(1,GPT,f0328a4a-a3ef-4279-bfd4-37cae381dfa0,0x800,0x32000)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...6................
Boot0014  Setup	FvFile(721c8b66-426c-4e86-8e99-3457c46ab0b9)
Boot0015  Boot Menu	FvFile(126a762d-5758-4fca-8531-201a7f57f850)
Boot0016  Diagnostic Splash Screen	FvFile(a7d8d9a6-6ab0-4aeb-ad9d-163e59a7a380)
Boot0017  Lenovo Diagnostics	FvFile(3f7e615b-0d45-4f80-88dc-26b234958560)
Boot0018  Startup Interrupt Menu	FvFile(f46ee6f4-4785-43a3-923d-7f786c3c8479)
Boot0019  Rescue and Recovery	FvFile(665d3f60-ad3e-4cad-8e26-db46eee9f1b5)
Boot001A  MEBx Hot Key	FvFile(ac6fd56a-3d41-4efd-a1b9-870293811a28)
Boot001B* USB CD	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,86701296aa5a7848b66cd49dd3ba6a55)
Boot001C* USB FDD	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,6ff015a28830b543a8b8641009461e49)
Boot001D* ATA HDD0	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f600)
Boot001E* ATA HDD1	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f601)
Boot001F* ATA HDD2	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f602)
Boot0020* USB HDD	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,33e821aaaf33bc4789bd419f88c50803)
Boot0021* PCI LAN	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,78a84aaf2b2afc4ea79cf5cc8f3d3803)
Boot0022* IDER BOOT CDROM	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x16,0x2)/Ata(0,1,0)
Boot0023* IDER BOOT Floppy	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x16,0x2)/Ata(0,0,0)
Boot0024* ATA HDD	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,91af625956449f41a7b91f4f892ab0f6)
Boot0025* ATAPI CD	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,aea2090adfde214e8b3a5e471856a354)
Boot0026* PCI LAN	VenMsg(bc7838d2-0f82-4d60-8316-c068ee79d25b,78a84aaf2b2afc4ea79cf5cc8f3d3803)

I hope this can help

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Looks like you already have an EFI boot entry for EnOS. You could try changing the boot priority in your Bios/firmware settings.

Or change the boot order from the live usb:

sudo efibootmgr -o 0001,0002,001B,001C,001D,001E,001F,0020,0021

If the boot entry is “intact” you should be able to boot into your EnOS.

Once in EnOS you would, most probably, need to do the following in order for Windows to be added to your Grub boot menu:

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/installation/grub-dual-booting/2021/07/

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I have an error: no such partition :frowning: and in in grub rescue

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You could try installing the bootloader once again.
Run:

sudo su

mount /dev/sda4 /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi 

arch-chroot /mnt

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=EnOS

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Also check the UUIDs in /etc/fstab correspond to the ones you get from

lsblk -fs

When done, type exit to get out of chroot.

Check again

efibootmgr -v

to make sure that the new boot entry "EnOS’ is first in order.

Reboot.

Hopefully this will resolve the issue.

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