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grub not dettecting windows bootloader

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(didn't know whether to post on windows or linux but decided that I would get answers for grub here) so I downloaded windows then manjaro linux kde theme and if I go to the bios I can select the windows bootloader or the hardrive they are both on and then it boots linux. however grub has not detected windows.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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try this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Detecting_other_operating_systems

if it doesn't work, read here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Windows_8/10_not_found

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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47 minutes ago, Sauron said:

try this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Detecting_other_operating_systems

if it doesn't work, read here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Windows_8/10_not_found

 

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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22 minutes ago, will4623 said:

still not.

 

14 minutes ago, will4623 said:

 

what exactly did you run? have you checked if fastboot or anything like that is enabled?

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1 minute ago, Sauron said:

 

what exactly did you run? have you checked if fastboot or anything like that is enabled?

fastboot is off and grub has never detected windows on this PC.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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Just now, Sauron said:

ok, but what exact command did you run to try and detect it?

grub-mkconfig

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Just now, will4623 said:

grub-mkconfig

so you just typed 

grub-mkconfig

into the terminal and pressed enter? That's not enough, you need to point it to your boot folder as detailed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generated_grub.cfg

so, as root and assuming you installed os-prober: 

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

 

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15 minutes ago, Sauron said:

so you just typed 


grub-mkconfig

into the terminal and pressed enter? That's not enough, you need to point it to your boot folder as detailed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generated_grub.cfg

so, as root and assuming you installed os-prober: 


grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

 

no I did have to select the mountpoint of the ntfs filesystems as it didn't outomount them.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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22 minutes ago, Sauron said:

so you just typed 


grub-mkconfig

into the terminal and pressed enter? That's not enough, you need to point it to your boot folder as detailed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Generated_grub.cfg

so, as root and assuming you installed os-prober: 


grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

 

as in this didn't work.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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13 hours ago, Sauron said:

well then I don't really know what could be wrong there, did you get any error messages?

no. it just boots directly to manjaro. if I hit escape it goes to the grub menu though. just doesn't have windows.

I live in misery USA. my timezone is central daylight time which is either UTC -5 or -4 because the government hates everyone.

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7 hours ago, CactusMan said:

Is the windows bootloader still in the efi partition?

I can boot windows by changing boot prioritys in bios.

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