I decided to remove my windows 10 and I want to go full Manjaro on my machine but the grub bootloader option is still there. I am trying to find a solution in youtube but all the tutorials are catered for when you remove Linux and go back to windows only.
can you give me some link on how to remove my bootloader?
I see what @nukecrayon suggested is perfect.
But out of curiosity I ask, if you decided to trash Win10, why not do a fresh Manjaro installation? If I were in your place I would do that. (just my humble personal preference to be sure nothing of my disk is wasted to Win10, and boot is only Manjaro).
because i want to preserve all the software I installed and the configuration I did. Will my software gonna comeback if I timeshift after I fresh install Manjaro?
thank you for the heads up and help. this bootloader topic is kinda hard for a casual user like me. I just want to preserve all my software and configuration I’ve done. I can just freshly install this but i’m thinking about all the software I downloaded.
Good point @nukecrayon
That’s a good reason. I believe there is a way to do this even if you made a fresh install.
During my distrohopping I was able to create an .iso from my system, and create a bootable USB flash disk (same as creating from downloaded iso), then fresh install from this USB that ended up with having EVERYTHING, even user name and password, user data, software and configuration installed. That is you get your machine exactly how it was when you created the iso.
My 2 cents:
through commands run in terminal to first create the iso, then creat the bootable USB.
I saw an app at MX Linux, you just right click the iso file, open it with this app (while USB is plugged in) and leave it to create the bootable USB (after creating the iso of your system)
I would suggest Manjaro developers can introduce an app to create the iso file from the already installed Manjaro ONLY system (without Win10) and make use of the MX app (it is open source anyway)
I’m sure Manjaro devs. can do even much better.
I hope they read this, or someone create a thread or pass this suggestion to developers. (I am a bit shy of suggesting it as I know they are already too busy developing and maintaining the amazing Manjaro, this is just a hope to see Manjaro even better and more user friendly)
Maybe there is something already in Manjaro I don’t know of.
Thanks @Mirdarthos
I had a look at the link, it answers part of the request, just building the iso, (it seems so techie for me), not that simple as an app or a single command.
Maybe there is something easier I hope. Just an app or a single command to create iso, and an app or single command to create the bootable USB from that iso.
I know it is not that simple.
What I remember I did was a “dd” command to create the iso from the system, then another “dd” command to create the bootable USB.
I am trying to find details on other forums I’ve been to.
It was all “dd” command as far as I remember. The main problem was with specifying the options, folders… for the “dd” command.