Coming from Manjaro, I had Manjaro in dual boot with Windows for a few years now. I have now also installed Arch Linux. During the Arch installation, I skipped the part with the boot partition and the bootloader. I have been using the bootloader/grub from Manjaro. That works quite well.
But now I want to switch to a bootloader from Arch. With the Arch bootloader I would like to continue to have the choice between Arch, Manjaro and Windows.
I assume that I have to install a corresponding bootloader for Arch in the EFI parallel to the others. But how should I proceed in detail? I have not yet been able to find any corresponding howtos. Which bootloader would you recommend?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB
Then make sure your CMOS has the Arch drive as the first boot target.
Yup, simple answer but an answer. I followed that too.
And don’t be scared of the long page. Most things there are fairly specific to certain specific scenarios only. It’s like “open here” on a can, except it also has instructions on what to do if the tab breaks off, you cut your finger, drop it on your toes and break them, start eating and hear a tornado warning, etc…
Many thx. Worked fine.
If I install a new kernel, I have to recreate the entries with
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg. But do I have to do that also for kernel updates?I don’t think so, because the filename should not change, if I’m right?
Uuuuhh, I don’t know. I never did that manually, it seems to auto-update after upgrades.
To be honest I haven’t thought of it. I only know it is recommended to re-install GRUB with GRUB updates. But simply pacman -Syu has so far always left me with a bootable system.
Edit: Didn’t find anything in pacman hooks.
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