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?

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    you can even have multiple, I keep grub and systemd-boot on hand in case one or the other gets messed up

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      4 days ago

      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…

      • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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        3 days ago

        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?

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          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.

      • ferric_carcinization@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Don’t forget:

        • Legacy consumption interface (for ancient mouths/hardware)
        • Password-protected can contents
        • Multiple cans connected in parallel
        • Multiple cans connected in series
        • Usage with backup cans
        • Safe can disposal following current best practices
        • Making the can look pretty
  • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I have one additional question. Sorry. According to the wiki I should use grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate a new menu after removing or installing other kernels. But obviously /boot/grub/grub.cfg is wrong, at least for me (the subdir grub doesnt exist here). In my case the file is under /efi/grub/grub.cfg. Is that also OK? When mounting ESP I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition#Mount_the_partition#Typical_mount_points and chose the 2nd variant.