I'm really frustrated trying to get my dual-boot setup with Arch Linux and Windows stable. It started off working perfectly with GRUB, but after I edited some configs for Hyprland and rebooted, GRUB just disappeared. I've tried reinstalling rEFInd, but even though the installer shows success, my BIOS ignores it. I've gone through reinstalling GRUB cleanly, wiping extra loaders, and even copying GRUB's EFI file to a fallback location, but nothing has worked. The only boot options my BIOS recognizes are 'Windows Boot Manager' and 'Linpus Lite,' leading me to a GRUB rescue shell instead of the proper GRUB menu. I just want a setup that allows my BIOS to boot GRUB or rEFInd reliably and show the Windows entry in its menu. Should I just move everything to the Windows EFI partition or can I get the Arch EFI partition to be recognized? Is there a drastic solution I can take to reset everything but the essential Microsoft files? I'd love any advice, especially from those who've dealt with persistent BIOS/UEFI boot issues!
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Have you considered repairing GRUB directly from the Arch install? The method can be a bit obscure, but using SuperGrub2 could help boot into your system, then you could reinstall GRUB easily. Just make sure you're mounting the EFI partition correctly since Arch uses /boot for this instead of /boot/efi which some other distros prefer. After that, might want to clean up any faulty EFI entries with efibootmgr to avoid confusion in the future. Hope you get it sorted!
You might want to try installing GRUB to the removable path, especially since you mentioned that Linpus Lite keeps interfering. There's a helpful section in the Arch Wiki about GRUB’s installation that can guide you on this. It could potentially resolve the issue where your BIOS keeps defaulting to that. Good luck!
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll definitely check out the Arch Wiki page you mentioned to see if that helps.
Just a friendly reminder to always mention your distro and hardware details in your tech queries! It helps the community give you better suggestions. Keep troubleshooting, you’ve got this!
That's a good point! I might give SuperGrub2 a try if I can't fix it with what I've done already. Thanks for the tip!