That's why we need two ssds for dual boot - eviltoast
  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    For something like OpenSUSE you go into YAST2-GUI and click the probe foreign OS and then it asks you if you want Windows or Linux as the default boot. But to do it manually you add a menu entry to /boot/grub2/custom.cfg. or in /etc/grub.d/40_custom. After editing this you will have to run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which will compile all the grub info into /etc/grub2/grub.cfg I believe the custom.cfg entries end up after the 40_custom entries that the OS may have included. There is a persistent method entry if you did want to edit the /etc/grub2/grub.cfg directly, but probably not advised.

    Here is my entry for Windows boot partition and location of MS boot. Also below that is a UEFI entry for geting back to the BIOS, not relevent to this topic, but just so you see how the menu entries are defined. In my system these are at the end of all the other Linux entries.

    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
    menuentry 'Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p2)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-efi-4E48-193F' {
    	insmod part_gpt
    	insmod fat
    	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4E48-193F
    	chainloader /efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
    }
    ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
    
    ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
    menuentry 'UEFI Firmware Settings' $menuentry_id_option 'uefi-firmware' {
    	fwsetup
    }