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Am I the only one staying on the old MBR thing because of it simplicity ? All my friends are struggling installing Arch with the EFI shit, while I did manage to install it in 10m without a lot of linux skills

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    EFI hard? What the fuck? Arch install is always around 10min, depending of your connection speed.
    Well okay it took more time the first time.
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    The only trouble I've had with efi has been the grub efi entity not being available after a reboot.

    Nothing a reboot into chroot and tell efibootmgr to add it didn't solve tho.

    Otherwise, one can try something like systemRescueCd or other image that supports detecting other os in the bootloader :p
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    @lotd add a boot entry is something, but did you check the order?
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    @Celes always push onto last in stack unless position is specified?

    At least that's my experience.
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    @lotd it should be, except if you have holes. It will take the first available entry in my memories.
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    @Celes ah yes, if you have entities from past installations that haven't been removed or null entities..

    Well, it's understandable it doesn't update those records automatically Imo.

    You can just go into your console and remove em though, efibootmgr can do that tho ;p
    As well as rearrange em
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    @Celes Even if it was the first time, you had problems, and I had too. With MBR ? grub-install and it works even with dual boot
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    Master Boot Record makes a far better band than boot sector!
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    EFI works perfectly fine for me... And I use systemd-boot btw... Grub doesn't suit me 😅😜
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