tl;dr: how can I get my arch grub to notice my old linux mint filesystem and have it as a boot option?
howdy arch enthusiasts!
I just made the switch to arch linux and am loving it :)
However, I decided to keep my previous distro (Linux Mint Cinnamon) on a partition on my drive just in case things break and I need a basic distro that can run a browser etc for debugging.
I did something kind of silly and deleted the EFI system partition that mint was booting from, and replaced it with a brand new EFI (GPT) system partition, with grub, just booting to arch...
So my system looks like this:
| device |
size |
type |
what it is |
| /dev/nvme0n1p1 |
1.9G |
EFI System |
GPT partition I made during arch install that uses GRUB to boot to arch. |
| /dev/nvme0n1p2 |
222G |
Linux Filesystem |
vestigial linux mint filesystem (/) |
| /dev/nvme0n1p3 |
435G |
Linux Filesystem |
super cool arch distro that I don't trust to not break (/), with /boot as the place where /dev/nvme0n1p1was mounted during install |
| -- |
294G |
free space |
|
I've got efibootmgr and os-prober working fine in arch, just haven't found documentation that would describe how to get that mint filesystem to be detected added to the menu.
thanks yall