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A symptom of linux past traumas (slrpnk.net)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So, I had to reinstall windows as a dualboot, because I need some CAD tools for work. It was painful but it's not thebaubject

I'm running nixos with systemd-boot and I installed windows on another drive. I started to research how to add the entry on the boot list so I don't need to go in bios to switch the boot order each time I want to change OS.

Most of the information I find is about grub on nixos but I finally find information on how to add a manual entry. On the Arch wiki I find some information but now I have to blend all that to make it work on my laptop.

It's late and I'm scared to mess up my boot partition so I go to sleep to work instructions on it the next day.

The next day I'm ready to do all that only to realized that there is already the entry for windows is already in the boot menu, it has been added automatically.

So I spent all this time to think about how I while have to adjust my system manually only to realize that nixos already did it automatically for me.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Most distros will run the grab is prober and add the additional entries.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure you meant "grub os prober" and got auto corrected for anyone confused.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Grab-ass prober, myummy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yes 🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but they're using systemd-boot which probably just looks up the EFI partition. Also, most distros probably run os-prober only after kernel updates or manually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nixos runs it on every rebuild

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ah, yeah, that makes sense.