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?)
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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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
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?
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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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.