Solus/Windows 10 dual boot stopped working, not automatically fixed by GRUB
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I had a system setup to dual boot Windows 10 with Solus Linux; however, after some trouble with one of my secondary drives (ended up removing it, Windows worked fine without it for a time), attempting to boot Windows in GRUB yielded an error I do not remember, and I had to update Solus through the terminal to get it to boot properly (if I remember correctly). Now, Solus boots fine, but Windows doesn't show up in GRUB at all and after researching and trying solutions for hours I feel like smashing my head against a brick wall. Things I've seen recommended and tried but don't work:
- **Attempting to automatically fix it by running
os-prober
and update-grub
.** At first, I was receiving an error stating WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
. Once I resolved this by [restarting the lvmetad service](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43555360/restart-lvmetad-service-in-linux-centos-cpanel) , it would output nothing, GRUB would say it updated its configuration, and still no Windows.
- **Attempting to manually add a Windows 10 Boot Entry.** Mostly following [this](https://deriklima.com/posts/how-to-add-windows-10-to-grub/) guide, I struggled to find the fs-uuid
but eventually managed to get it. I was never able to get the hints_string
working though, always receiving the error grub-probe: warning: unknown device type nvme0n1.
. Furthermore, I could not find the /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
I'm supposed to have in my Windows installation, instead finding bootmgfw.efi
located at /Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi
and receiving an error whenever I try to access the other location that it doesn't exist. Despite these hurdles, I pressed on and added the following as a manual entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
, only to be met with an error: invalid signature
and disappointment.
# Microsoft Windows 10
menuentry "Windows 10" {
insmod part_gpt
insmod ntfs
insmod search_fs_uuid
insmod chain
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 2E6E49286E48E9E3
chainloader /Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi
}
- **Attempting to run Startup Repair from a bootable Windows 10 USB.** Following [this](https://askubuntu.com/a/1318980) suggested answer, I booted into my Windows 10 installer USB, went to "Repair your computer", selected "Startup Repair.", and was told that Windows couldn't figure out what was wrong and was simply prompted to "Shut down".
At this point, I'm exhausted. I feel like I'm running in circles with what I'm finding online, and I can't really think of anything else that could work. I'm no expert with Linux; I'm half-decent at terminal stuff, but I don't have a good understanding of how these things work to try and fix it from nothing on my own. And even though Solus is lovely to use, it still has its share of issues I'm running into (albeit those are irrelevant to the big problem here), and I'd still really like to have a powerful desktop computer capable of running Windows so just abandoning my Windows partition isn't something I want to accept. Anything is appreciated, thank you so much in advance.
For reference if it helps, here's the output of fdisk -l
that's relevant to my boot drive:
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: INTEL SSDPEKNW512G8
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x313ff715
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 499578836 499576789 238.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/nvme0n1p2 999153664 1000210431 1056768 516M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/nvme0n1p3 499578880 957210623 457631744 218.2G 83 Linux
/dev/nvme0n1p4 957210624 999153663 41943040 20G 82 Linux swap / Solari
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Also, I'm pretty sure Windows would boot in legacy mode based on the output I found in setupact.log
after following [this](https://www.diskpart.com/gpt-mbr/how-to-check-if-uefi-or-bios-0825.html) guide to find it.
Asked by justinhschaaf
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Sep 17, 2022, 08:46 PM
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