So, I made my bootable EndevourOS image. I installed it on my secondary SSD, while I have Win11 on my primary SSD (need it for my job).

When I installed it I booted it up and everything was ok. A bit confusing, but ok.

Wanted to get into Windows again because I needed to work on something for a design (Adobe programs), next thing I know: my computer isn’t recognizing my Windows drive…

It’s there. I can see it on the “disks” app on EndevourOS, I can mount the disk and even see my files in there. But it just won’t boot.

Read the documentation and it mentions an “os-prober”, that I needed to change GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in the etc/default/drub file… I don’t have that file anywhere in my system…

I installed os-prober, nothing. I searched any other folder with a similar name and checked files… The only file with a mention of os-prober is grub.d that says “if GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=xtrue then random warning”, but that is a set of instructions (i think), not the actual file.

I don’t think I should have tried EOS/Arch when I’ve been learning Linux for only 2 days, can anybody help me with this? Thank you for any answers in advance.

  • @[email protected]
    12•1 year ago

    What bootloader have you choosen during install?

    Which option did you select from the options in the picture (keep in mind that systemd-boot is the default in case you did not change this setting)?

    • redimkOP
      1•1 year ago

      I chose sysremd, I didn’t have time to fix the issue as I needed my laptop for work so I just did a clean install of everything once again. I think I will keep trying Fedora but I will read the documentation of EOS first so I can understand what I’m doing, I can’t afford to make the same mistake again lol. I think what happened is that I accidentally erased the Windows EFI partition somehow and that’s why it was not going in.

      Is there an actual difference between those? Is one better than the other or it’s just the OS giving options?

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Is there an actual difference between those? Is one better than the other or it’s just the OS giving options?

        I am not a power user so I dont know much. From what I gather l, grub is more configurable and also easier to configure but is also more likely to break. Systemd-boot on other hand is more robust from what I read but less configurable and harder to configure. You can do things like set booting into btrfs snapshot using grub that I think you can’t with systemd-boot. Again i am no expert so parts of this might be outdated or wrong. Better to ask a more experienced user