[arch-general] Win10 Upgrade makes ArchLinux inaccessible?

Zachary Kline zkline at speedpost.net
Sat Apr 30 17:13:05 UTC 2016


> On Apr 30, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Murari <murari.ksr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29 April 2016 at 00:09, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:
> 
> I haven't updated Windows 10 in quite a while so I haven't experienced
> this, but have you checked to see if both the locations to which you copied
> the systemd-bootx64.efi are still OK? On my (HP) laptop, I have systemd's
> boot loader copied to both $ESP$/EFI/Boot/BOOTX64.efi and
> $ESP$/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi. Windows 10 does make changes to
> critical files through regular updates, but these are the only two files
> that should mess with the boot process.

Thanks for the tip. I forgot that I indeed copied the systemd EFI file to two places. In retrospect, I don’t know if the default bootx64.efi replacement was necessary. Anyway, this seems to have solved the problem.

Best,
Zack.


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