Hi all. I am not acquainted with Computers much. I understand a bit of windows and lesser bit of linux. Consider me a newbie and see if my problem has any solution.
I am using Lenovo laptop that is given by company I work for. It has windows 10 with two main partitions that we see in “my pc”. So I installed Manjaro on the second.
Now, after each restart, the Lenovo Logo at BIOS screen will flash twice (usually it had been once) and then in a few seconds I can see A mouse pointer beneath it and in another few seconds Manjaro will come into picture asking for my password.
Second thing, I don’t see any boot menu which used to ask if I want to boot in windows or Manjaro.
I Tried to fix usual grub repair commands from Manjaro but no change. I also tried bootrec /fixboot in command prompt using a windows recovery drive but it will always end up with “access denied”.
I have tried lot many things through youtube including a suggested boot repair app something like “rescapp” but all failed.
Please guide me.
I can reset windows PC but it being a office laptop all admin settings will be lost and that will be a problem because I should not have tampered with the laptop when there is an IT team (of one person) To solve problems. (He was never useful so I had started doing things myself)
This is normal. The first time you see the Lenovo logo is when the UEFI is starting up and initializing the hardware. The second time you see it, it’s because Manjaro uses the UEFI logo as a boot splash theme. Then your mouse cursor will appear as the graphical display server is starting, and then you get to see the graphical login screen.
It’s all normal.
Edit the file /etc/default/grub and make sure that the following five lines are identical to this below…
When was the last time you updated your system? There has been a change to GRUB two updates ago ─ a fix for the “boot hole” vulnerability ─ that requires an extra step.
Assuming that your system boots in UEFI mode and that your operating systems are installed on /dev/sda, you must first update the system and then reinstall GRUB to the EFI System Partition.
It’s a package ─ os-prober ─ from the normal repository that should normally be installed by default, but some people uninstall it and others remove the execute permission. If you have not uninstalled it or removed the execute permission, then it should still be functional.
It’s a shell script as an add-on to GRUB that scans your drive for other operating systems and then adds those to the GRUB boot menu.
Okay, so that means that you don’t have a Windows boot loader in your EFI system partition anymore.
Now, this is not a Windows support forum, and I myself don’t use Microsoft Windows, but I’ve done some searching on the web on your behalf, and I think you may possibly find a solution to repair your Windows boot loader at the link below.
Disclaimer
If the above advice breaks your computer, then you get to keep all the pieces.
Just posting it out here, not the best solution but worked for me.
I had 2 drives, ssd and hdd. At first in hdd I installed windows 10, then I tried installing Manjaro in ssd and after that, it automatically loads manjaro.
Problem is that in /boot/efi/EFI there was no Microsoft folder, so I manually copied the files as:
Open terminal from hard drive where windows is installed, go to path C:\Windows\Boot\EFI and copy it’s content to: /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/
Once file is pasted, create one bootable pendrive of Windows 10, load it up and select Auto Repair option. This time windows will fix the boot system
Now when you will restart, it will open up windows by default and if you want to select Manjaro, then you can change Boot priority for ssd first and hdd second. Bit of a manual work but atleast it’s working
Later on, if you will boot Manjaro and update it’s kernel and everything, then automatically in next restart of Manjaro it will detect WIndows 10.
This is kind of hack which I pulled it off. Not the best solution but anyone can try if you are in similar scenario like me
