Systemd boot not showing my other distro on the same drive in the boot options menu

General system Newbie
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The first distro I installed on this PC is Manjaro. I set it up to share an EFI partition and /home partition with another distro in a blank slot. Yesterday I put EOS into the blank slot to see if using it would resolve a different issue I was consistently having for Months on Manjaro and it didn’t… and now with my topic on the Manjaro forums about that same problem which occurred on both distros I can’t get back into Manjaro for the purposes of gathering more information for troubleshooting. I may make another topic about that other problem but understanding why Manjaro isn’t on the menu with my 4 EOS options would be a nice start.

Problems installing Endeavour
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Can you share the output of lsblk -o name,type,fstype,size

Also, is your Manjaro using grub or systemd-boot?

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nvme0n1 disk 3.6T
├─nvme0n1p1 part btrfs 97.7G (Manjaro)
├─nvme0n1p2 part vfat 500M (EFI)
├─nvme0n1p3 part btrfs 3.4T (home)
├─nvme0n1p4 part swap 62.5G
└─nvme0n1p5 part btrfs 96.1G (EndeavourOS)

Manjaro was set up using systemd-boot as well

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Can you share the output of sudo find /efi

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/efi
/efi/EFI
/efi/EFI/Manjaro
/efi/EFI/Manjaro/grubx64.efi
/efi/EFI/boot
/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
/efi/EFI/systemd
/efi/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi
/efi/EFI/Linux
/efi/loader
/efi/loader/keys
/efi/loader/entries
/efi/loader/entries/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0-6.15.7-arch1-1-fallback.conf
/efi/loader/entries/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0-6.15.7-arch1-1.conf
/efi/loader/entries/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0-6.12.39-1-lts-fallback.conf
/efi/loader/entries/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0-6.12.39-1-lts.conf
/efi/loader/loader.conf
/efi/loader/random-seed
/efi/loader/entries.srel
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.15.7-arch1-1
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.15.7-arch1-1/initrd-fallback
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.15.7-arch1-1/initrd
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.15.7-arch1-1/linux
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.12.39-1-lts
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.12.39-1-lts/initrd-fallback
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.12.39-1-lts/initrd
/efi/2fdfbffff8144b6d9ea0abca29b721c0/6.12.39-1-lts/linux

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It looks like Manjaro is using grub, not systemd-boot.

There are no systemd-boot entries for Manjaro.

You can add a systemd-boot entry to chainload grub if you want.

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how will that work? just wanna make sure my whole system doesn’t become non-bootable

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Create a file at /efi/loader/entries/manjaro.conf

The contents should be:

title   Manjaro
efi     /EFI/Manjaro/grubx64.efi

Adding a conf file shouldn’t make your system unbootable.

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