UPDATE: I successfully dual booted Linux! and then I messed up... - eviltoast

Update from this post from the other day: What to know before Dual Booting Windows + Linux?

TLDR: I got it working, started learning, tried to fix a grub issue and borked the whole system.


So after considering all the advice, I went and disabled/prepped/backed up, and started the process. I managed to get Fedora KDE installed on another partition and everything was looking ok. I installed some programs, started learning for a few hours, but there was one small issue. The grub configuration from the video didn’t really work. Windows wasn’t booting by default, and when I tried to do the GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true to have it boot the last OS, it also didn’t work. When booting windows, a message would flash by saying '/EFI/fedora/grubenv' not found.

Looking more into it, the video says to use sudo grub2-mkconfig -o boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg but I think the correct one now is grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg? I found this thread, but I couldn’t run the first command because it gave a conflict error, and I think there were two versions of grub2 installed?

So anyways, I tried running the setup again, thought it was ok and did a reboot to test… and got hit with a black screen with minimal BASH like line editing is supported.

At this point I’m a little worried and lost, thinking maybe I wasn’t ready to try this, and trying to get it back the way it was. I found this guide, but I get stuck trying to mount the EFI partition.

Any tips on where to go from here? Right now I plugged in the USB I used earlier, booted Fedora from it, and opened the terminal. Past that I’m a bit lost on how to fix grub.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    So for a step by step,

    I booted into Mint and opened a terminal and cd to my OS drive.

    I checked my grub folder:

    mint@mint:/media/mint/a96b3354-70dd-45ed-8c6c-95171e9f1e82/boot/grub$ ls

    fonts grub.cfg grub.cfg.broke grubenv locale themes x86_64-efi

    made an edit with vi (irrelevant here)

    went back to / on my OS drive

    mounted the various partitions needed, that’s all the mount -o bind commands, dev, proc, dev/pts, sys

    then chroot to my OS drive so that I’m working inside my Arch install not the Mint install

    then I mount the efi and grub install

    [root@mint /]# mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /efi

    [root@mint /]# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=efi --bootloader-id=GRUB