Whenever i need to use windows, i leave it on a separate drive, and then just point a rEFInd entry to it. It really frustrates me, that Windows just expects full advocacy over your hardware, and performs changes like this without any warning
i’ve had both windows and linux mess-up dual boot setups… so i started keeping them separate. either different systems, or run in a vm.
My issue is that when linux fucks up my bootloader it’s usually by mistake / bug. If windows does it it’s pretty much deliberate
VMWare workstation is well worth the £££. I work in a Windows VM that is fully compliant with all the business requirements and when I run it full screen I don’t feel like it’s a VM.
I dualboot with separate efi partitions. Does it happen that windows fucks up anothr efi partition?
Arch moment
(no I will never forget that one time they borked the grub package and there was no notification of it in the newsfeed)
I switched to systemd boot when that happened, and it’s been so smooth ever since
I just switched to Fedora and been happy with it for ~2 yrs
Untill there’s a bug in systemd-boot on arch…
It’s not exempt from happening; however, it rarely ever updates and has less complexity/functionality than grub, which makes it less prone to error happening (be it from the developers, or from the user like me trying to theme it :))
Seems familiar. Did you by any chance also not update the copy of grub in your EFI system partition since you installed it? Then you need to do that and afterwards everything works fine again.
While you are at it add a netboot.xyz EFI entry to fix that kind of stuff without a USB stick or your own network boot server.
grub> set root=(...) grub> linux /vmlinuz root=... grub> initrd /initrd.img grub> bootI love my bootloader https://github.com/Lxtharia/minegrub-theme
pacman -Syyu?Windows has a habit of deleting grub when it updates. Idk if it is just bad Microsoft programming or intentional.
You mean I can’t have a separate partition without microsoft thinking they own everything?
Yeah pretty much. When I dual booted I just had 2 drives and used the bios boot select
I used to do that but windows still managed to break grub somehow
microsoft ingenuity
What irritates me the most is they don’t even bother to ask what to do with the bootloader when installing Windows, or at least the option is hidden behind some guru magic not supported by the installer GUI. Leave an old windows boot drive plugged in while doing a fresh install on another drive, and the installer happily uses the bootloader on the old drive without ever even mentioning it. Since it is so easy to make this mistake you’d think Microsoft offered a tool to move the bootloader to a different drive, but nope.
This post made by the windows gang
What I’m missing? Just do update-grub.
Btw, rEFInd detects bootloaders by itself.
Time to break out the system rescue USB
Honestly, when I learned that rEFInd supports loading dxe modules natively I swapped and never looked back (NVMe boot drives on ancient computers, my beloved)
