Help me repartition please
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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