Manjaro doesn't show up in Boot Priority in Bios

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#1

I’m new to Linux so please bare with me here.

I recently installed manjaro-kde on an empty ssd I have in my computer separate from the Windows 10 installation. I noticed that after installing Linux that I was unable to select Manjaro as the boot drive in my bios, however it does show up as a selection when I hit F11. Actually there 3 selections to choose from.

Windows Boot Manager (Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB)
Manjaro (Sata2: KINGSTON SH103S3120G)
UEFI OS (Sata2: KINGSTON SH103S3120G) Which boots into the same Manjaro installation, is this normal?

These are the steps I took when I installed Manjaro.

I downloaded manjaro-kde-20.1.2-201019-linux58 iso and mounted to a flash drive using balenaEtcher.

After booting up into the live iso I used this command to confirm I was in uefi mode.

ls /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

I continued by creating a manual partition.

100MiB fat32 boot flag mountpoint /boot/efi

40GiB ext4 mountpoint /

Remaining space ext4 /home

I would like to be able to have the Bios directly boot into Manjaro when I decide to use it as my main operating system. As of right now have to just use F11 (is this grub?)

#2

Nope should be one entry, but his could be a bios thing.

Since you can get it when hitting F11 I think you are missing a setting in the bios itself.
For instance in my bios I have the option legacy/uefi and both.
When I set it to legacy I don’t see any option to select neither OS I installed, but when I set it to uefi or both I can see and select them (after saving the settings and the reboot that is).

Check your bios if you have such a setting. If you cannot find I could you provide the output of inxi -Fazy ?

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#3

In the tutorial I followed it did tell me to turn certain settings in bios off but I was unable to find all of them. I will take a second look.

System:
  Kernel: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.8-x86_64 
  root=UUID=e1cd2022-b389-482f-aa8b-fa04e61668c4 rw quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7C84) 
  v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.10 date: 07/14/2020 
CPU:
  Topology: 12-Core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 
  family: 17 (23) model-id: 71 (113) stepping: N/A microcode: 8701021 
  L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 182458 
  Speed: 2798 MHz min/max: 2200/3800 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 
  1: 3085 2: 1961 3: 2058 4: 2055 5: 3599 6: 2057 7: 2055 8: 2199 9: 2197 
  10: 2195 11: 2197 12: 2200 13: 2048 14: 2197 15: 3599 16: 2057 17: 2050 
  18: 2197 19: 2200 20: 2198 21: 2198 22: 2200 23: 2198 24: 3622 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: 
  conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds status: Not affected 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER] vendor: PNY driver: nvidia 
  v: 455.28 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 2d:00.0 chip ID: 10de:2187 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia 
  display ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.9x11.9") 
  s-diag: 610mm (24") 
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 
  size: 531x298mm (20.9x11.7") diag: 609mm (24") 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.28 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio vendor: PNY 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2d:00.1 chip ID: 10de:1aeb 
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2f:00.4 chip ID: 1022:1487 
  Device-3: Corsair Corsair VOID PRO Wireless Gaming Headset type: USB 
  driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-5:4 chip ID: 1b1c:0a14 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.16-2-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
  v: kernel bus ID: 25:00.0 chip ID: 168c:002e 
  IF: wlp37s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: N/A 
  modules: r8169 port: f000 bus ID: 26:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8125 
  Device-3: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: f000 
  bus ID: 28:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2723 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-4: Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: xpad 
  bus ID: 7-3:2 chip ID: 045e:0719 serial: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 6.59 TiB used: 9.14 GiB (0.1%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s 
  lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 2B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
  ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Kingston model: SH103S3120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
  rev: C4 scheme: GPT 
  ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Kingston model: SH103S3120G size: 111.79 GiB 
  block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> 
  rev: C4 scheme: GPT 
  ID-5: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WD4002FFWX-68TZ4N0 
  size: 3.64 TiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> rev: 0A83 scheme: GPT 
  ID-6: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1H15 scheme: MBR 
  ID-7: /dev/sde vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-00KUWA0 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1H15 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 39.06 GiB size: 38.20 GiB (97.79%) used: 7.94 GiB (20.8%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
  ID-2: /home raw size: 72.61 GiB size: 70.97 GiB (97.74%) 
  used: 1.19 GiB (1.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 44.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 31 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 35% 
Info:
  Processes: 436 Uptime: 1m Memory: 31.35 GiB used: 1.46 GiB (4.6%) 
  Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: N/A Packages: pacman: 1154 lib: 314 
  flatpak: 0 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.05
#4

This is awkward. While going into my bios settings, I did see that it lets me boot into manjaro instead of windows. I thought this was only controlled by selecting a boot drive. Instead it had a list of the OS’s I could choose from in a different menu, I could even disable the second appearance of manjaro. I’m guessing this has something to do with windows controlling the boot settings?

#5

recheck info

in your UEFI

disable secure boot
disable fastboot
disks on AHCI
no legacy
no CSM
UEFI only or others ( not windows )

you should see
UEFI < USB vendor name > < patrition 1 > --> boot in EFI

boot on USB iso manjaro
open a terminal

inxi  -Mxa ( check for UEFI only , not UEFI[legacy] or Bios )
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted
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#6

Thanks for replying but I believe I solved my issue unless there is something in the inxi -Fazy that tells you otherwise or I set something up improperly.