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6 hours ago, Prambler said:

Solus OS on Disk 1 is only accessible via the bios drive selector, meaning it didn't get installed into the GRUB. The order I installed OSes if I remember correctly are Windows first, then Garuda with the GRUB and then Solus OS which never made it to the GRUB bootloader.

In Garuda simply updating grub should add Solus to the grub boot menu

sudo update-grub

The command above will run os-prober which will find all bootable operating systems installed on any drive connected to the system and add them to grub bootloader.

 

NOTE: Analyse the output of the above command carefully. It may mention os-prober is disabled.

If  is disabled you will need to edit grub config to enable os-prober.

To do so edit /etc/default/grub

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

(Use keyboard arrow keys to navigate. To save and exist Press Ctrl+X, followed by Y and Enter to exit)

 

Now add this line

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Or if it there already delete the # at start of the line to uncomment it.

 

Once done rerun the update-grub command to rescan for bootable operating systems. This time Both Windows and Solus should be listed in the output

 

6 hours ago, Prambler said:

I am currently thinking about getting rid of Solus and Garuda Linux and reorganize my drives to have it such that the primary M.2 drive (Disk 2) is dedicated to Windows and the secondary / chipset M.2 drive (Disc 1) is dedicated to a Linux distro

Yes I recommend to have Windows and Linux installed on their own dedicated drives.

I would first disconnect Windows drive and install distro of choice to Disk 1

Once linux is installed, connect your Windows drive and boot to linux.

Using Gparted delete the linux partitions from the Windows drive (partitions 4, 5 and 6 and maybe the last one?).

Next run update-grub command to add Windows to the grub boot menu.

 

In bios set your linux drive as first boot device. 

Hello,

 

I have 2 M.2 SSDs and 1 3.5" HDD connected to my PC. As it stands right now, (see attached disk partition table):

  1. Disk 0 is the HDD that I use only as a storage drive and no OS in it.
  2. Disk 1 is a 1 TB M.2 SSD that is on the secondary M.2 slot which has on it an old (and never updated) install of Solus OS 4.5.
  3. Disk 2 is a 2 TB M.2 SSD that is on the PCI lane that connects directly to the CPU rather than the chipset and this has multiple partitions including a GRUB install, a Windows NTFS partition that holds Windows 10 and related program files and my steam games library. There is also a partition that holds a very old install of Garuda Linux that hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. A few other partitions also exist on this Disk for Linux including a SWAP partition of 16 GB to match my 16 GB RAM on the hardware.

Solus OS on Disk 1 is only accessible via the bios drive selector, meaning it didn't get installed into the GRUB. The order I installed OSes if I remember correctly are Windows first, then Garuda with the GRUB and then Solus OS which never made it to the GRUB bootloader.

 

I am currently thinking about getting rid of Solus and Garuda Linux and reorganize my drives to have it such that the primary M.2 drive (Disk 2) is dedicated to Windows and the secondary / chipset M.2 drive (Disc 1) is dedicated to a Linux distro (either Fedora or Pop OS with Cosmic DE when it goes Beta) and still have a decent bootloader (GRUB?) so that I can choose during bootup. I am worried about deleting the existing GRUB and making things unbootable since I do rely on Windows and want to continue with my existing Windows build if possible without wiping it clean. Can anyone suggest to me a stable way to reorganize my drives and install a Linux distro and have a decent bootloader that will allow me to switch Operating Systems easily enough?

 

Thank you for looking at my query.

 

Prambler

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6 hours ago, Prambler said:

Solus OS on Disk 1 is only accessible via the bios drive selector, meaning it didn't get installed into the GRUB. The order I installed OSes if I remember correctly are Windows first, then Garuda with the GRUB and then Solus OS which never made it to the GRUB bootloader.

In Garuda simply updating grub should add Solus to the grub boot menu

sudo update-grub

The command above will run os-prober which will find all bootable operating systems installed on any drive connected to the system and add them to grub bootloader.

 

NOTE: Analyse the output of the above command carefully. It may mention os-prober is disabled.

If  is disabled you will need to edit grub config to enable os-prober.

To do so edit /etc/default/grub

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

(Use keyboard arrow keys to navigate. To save and exist Press Ctrl+X, followed by Y and Enter to exit)

 

Now add this line

GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

Or if it there already delete the # at start of the line to uncomment it.

 

Once done rerun the update-grub command to rescan for bootable operating systems. This time Both Windows and Solus should be listed in the output

 

6 hours ago, Prambler said:

I am currently thinking about getting rid of Solus and Garuda Linux and reorganize my drives to have it such that the primary M.2 drive (Disk 2) is dedicated to Windows and the secondary / chipset M.2 drive (Disc 1) is dedicated to a Linux distro

Yes I recommend to have Windows and Linux installed on their own dedicated drives.

I would first disconnect Windows drive and install distro of choice to Disk 1

Once linux is installed, connect your Windows drive and boot to linux.

Using Gparted delete the linux partitions from the Windows drive (partitions 4, 5 and 6 and maybe the last one?).

Next run update-grub command to add Windows to the grub boot menu.

 

In bios set your linux drive as first boot device. 

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14 hours ago, C2dan88 said:

I would first disconnect Windows drive and install distro of choice to Disk 1

Do you mean physically disconnect the drive before doing a fresh Linux install?

 

I think the rest of it makes sense. Thank you so much for the quick response.

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