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hy im trying to install arch as the third os on my windows / ubuntu machine and i cant figure it out how to set the grub bootloader i have already read the friendly manual but probably also due to my non native English origins i coudnt find an answer to my question witch is during the arch install should i reinstall grub with grub-install ? i would prefer to keep the old (ubuntu) one also because its already customized but unfortunately i cant...if i dont install it i dont have the directory /boot/grub in witch i should place the grub.conf file so should i just create this directory ? i have tried with os-prober correctly activated to generate a new grub.conf but it doesnt pick up the arch install .., what are the files i must have to make grub recognize those partitions as a new os to witch assign a new boot entry ..

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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (12 children)

you should be able to reuse the /boot partition from arch, I'm pretty sure. you can just update the grub configuration ubuntu set up to add arch to it that way.

[–] DNOS@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Sorry I'm trying to install arch after Ubuntu what did u mean by reusing the boot partition from arch you mean try to update grub from the arch install while in Chroot?

[–] intelati@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I went the GUI route with EndeavorOS. I had to set (flag?) the existing bootloader to /boot/efi I believe. Then I was able to install normally from there.

(Was coming from Manjaro)

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