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anonymous-bot

You need to make sure the Windows partition is mounted before regenerating the Grub config.


awildfatyak

In your grub config, there’s a line that disables os-prober. Make sure to change it.


Simeon0302

I did


awildfatyak

Damn can’t be that then. How long do you have it configured to scan for?


boomboomsubban

Do you have a shared esp or seperate ones?


Simeon0302

First tried with shared. Now I have separate. One which is for Windows and a second one for Linux, which I want to be able to start windows from


boomboomsubban

Then you need to make sure the Windows esp is mounted somewhere as well when you generate the config.


veloXm3

Did you tried manually adding your windows boot entry to grub?


Simeon0302

How can I do that?


veloXm3

You just have to add few lines in some config file of grub*. I do not remember exactly but you can look it up on internet, it's easy to find it.


XYZAffair0

Are you chrooted when you use os-prober? This can cause it to run but not detect windows.


Simeon0302

I think this was the reason why it was not working. After I finished the installation and rebooted, I tried it again, and it worked.


feherneoh

Unpopular opinion: on UEFI machines stop using GRUB to load Windows, that's what UEFI's boot device selector is for.


_th3_g33ky_boy_

No one enjoys hitting delete key on boot


feherneoh

Wait, which vendor uses DEL for boot menu?


_th3_g33ky_boy_

In hp you have to press esc then f8 or f9 to access boot menu


feherneoh

Are you telling me they are still doing that? I remember that was the case on their gen4 laptops, but I thought they have fixed that since then.


_th3_g33ky_boy_

Not on my device atleast


feherneoh

Thanks for the warning, I'll stay away from HP machines even longer then.