Make tumbleweed hard disk bootable and grub question

Gps2010 · August 25, 2024, 11:08pm

From the boot menu of my mobo, I can start windows or leap.
F11 gives a list of things I can boot from.

There is no browsing there.
Asrock motherboard.

guus@localhost:~> lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME        FSTYPE    SIZE MOUNTPOINT
sda                 931,5G 
├─sda1      ntfs      529M 
├─sda2      vfat       99M 
├─sda3                 16M 
└─sda4      ntfs    930,9G 
sdb                 931,5G 
├─sdb1      vfat      512M 
├─sdb2      ext4     48,8G 
├─sdb3      ext4    800,8G /home/guus/leaphome
├─sdb4      swap        2G 
└─sdb5      ext4     79,4G /home/guus/VMmount
sdc         iso9660   7,5G 
├─sdc1      vfat      3,4M 
└─sdc2      iso9660   4,4G 
nvme0n1             931,5G 
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat      512M /boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p2 btrfs     931G /var

sda windows
sdb Leap and and a virtual machine
nvme Tumbleweed (which does not show anymore, when I press F11)

mrmazda · August 25, 2024, 11:18pm

In your Leap’s Grub menu there should be at least one entry to boot TW. Choose it, then with TW booted, run efibootmgr to show here.

mrmazda · August 25, 2024, 11:21pm

These are Leap 15.3 kernels.

Gps2010 · August 25, 2024, 11:36pm

I cant start tumbleweed that way. (from leap grub) When I try I get grub errors.

grubcore/fs/brtfs.c:2056file : file '/@/ .snapshot boot /vmlinux 5.14.9-1 default not found

malcolmlewis · August 25, 2024, 11:38pm

@Gps2010 OK, so as you can see the NVMe is using /boot/efi for Leap booting, I suspect that’s also Tumbleweed.

You need to show what’s in /boot/efi/EFIdirectory.

I suspect since you did not change the distribution names, Leap overwrote Tumbleweed

Gps2010 · August 25, 2024, 11:44pm

guus@localhost:/> cd boot
guus@localhost:/boot> ls
config-6.10.3-1-default  efi    initrd                   initrd-6.9.9-1-default        sysctl.conf-6.9.9-1-default  System.map-6.9.9-1-default  vmlinuz-6.10.3-1-default
config-6.9.9-1-default   grub2  initrd-6.10.3-1-default  sysctl.conf-6.10.3-1-default  System.map-6.10.3-1-default  vmlinuz                     vmlinuz-6.9.9-1-default
guus@localhost:/boot> cd efi
guus@localhost:/boot/efi> ls
9e31c51a645745f3914585e1f8036f64  EFI  opensuse-tumbleweed
guus@localhost:/boot/efi> ls
9e31c51a645745f3914585e1f8036f64  EFI  opensuse-tumbleweed
guus@localhost:/boot/efi> cd EFI
guus@localhost:/boot/efi/EFI> ls
boot  opensuse
guus@localhost:/boot/efi/EFI>


guus@localhost:/boot/efi/EFI/boot> ls
bootx64.efi  fallback.efi  grub.cfg  grub.efi  MokManager.efi
guus@localhost:/boot/efi/EFI/boot>

NVME is the tumbleweed hard disk

malcolmlewis · August 25, 2024, 11:53pm

@Gps2010 Whilst the NVMe is the Tumblweed disk, it’s sharing /boot/efi for booting, since you did not change the distributor, well you may have since I see up one directory an opensuse-tumbleweed directory. You need to move that to the EFI directory and see if that helps.

So, su - to root user, then;

cd /boot/efi
mv opensuse-tumbleweed EFI/

Now, fire up YaST Bootloader and follow the steps earlier but for Leap, save and then post the output from efibootmgr

Don’t reboot!

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:10pm

The forum did not let me log in from leap.
My firefox was too old.
I then downloaded firefox and that did work.

After in tumbleweed the copy vomand, I took the usb stickout and booted leap
Then used the bootloader

localhost:/home/guus # efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0011
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0001* opensuse-leap-secureboot
Boot0006* Hard Drive
Boot0011* opensuse

And I have not yet rebooted

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 3:13pm

@Gps2010 So, I suspect 1 and 11 are both Leap, did you not disable secure boot in YaST Bootloader? If no do that and post the efibootmgr -v info again…

No reboot

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:17pm

This time with secure boot off.

localhost:/home/guus # efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0011
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0006,0011
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager  HD(2,GPT,70e1d660-fa10-4c6b-af84-2f6220bf4308,0x109000,0x31800)/File(\EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI)WINDOWS.........x...B.C.D.O.B.J.E.C.T.=.{.9.d.e.a.8.6.2.c.-.5.c.d.d.-.4.e.7.0.-.a.c.c.1.-.f.3.2.b.3.4.4.d.4.7.9.5.}...a................
Boot0001* opensuse-leap HD(1,GPT,a986b7af-7e9a-4f0a-a483-a57562332f53,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\opensuse-leap\grubx64.efi)
Boot0006* Hard Drive    BBS(HD,,0x0)..GO..NO........u.S.T.1.0.0.0.D.M.0.1.0.-.2.E.P.1.0.2....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L. . . . . . . . . . . . .N.Z.0.1.9.W.H.5........BO..NO........q.S.a.m.s.u.n.g. .S.S.D. .9.8.0. .1.T.B....................A...........................%8....i.....4..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L.S.6.4.9.N.F.0.R.7.1.9.4.2.6.V........BO..NO........u.W.D.C. .W.D.1.0.E.Z.E.X.-.0.8.W.N.4.A.0....................A.................................>..Gd-.;.A..MQ..L. . . . .W. .-.D.C.W.6.C.2.Y.R.T.3.1.6.F........BO
Boot0011* opensuse      HD(1,GPT,a986b7af-7e9a-4f0a-a483-a57562332f53,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\OPENSUSE\GRUBX64.EFI)..BO

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 3:37pm

@Gps2010 OK, so we have opensuse-leap present. In YaST bootloader, you checked the Foreign OS box too?

Can you show the output from ls -la /boot/efi/EFI/opensuse-tumbleweed and os-prober

No reboot!!

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:44pm

Yes I had

guus@localhost:~> ls -la /boot/efi/EFI/opensuse-tumbleweed 
ls: kan geen toegang krijgen tot '/boot/efi/EFI/opensuse-tumbleweed': Bestand of map bestaat niet

guus@localhost:~> sudo os-prober 
[sudo] wachtwoord voor root: 
/dev/nvme0n1p2:openSUSE Tumbleweed:openSUSE:linux:btrfs:UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218:subvol=@/.snapshots/1555/snapshot
/dev/sdb2@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:46pm

I do not know if it matters but:

Windows was installed first then Tumbleweed then leap. (if I recall right)

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 3:48pm

@Gps2010 Did you not move the directory as asked earlier?

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:50pm

yes, and I got no erors, but how can we check ?

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 3:51pm

@Gps2010 with the ls command ls -la /boot/efi and ls -la /boot/efi/EFI`

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 3:57pm

guus@localhost:~> ls -la /boot/efi
totaal 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 1 jan 1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 12 okt 2021 …
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 26 aug 16:42 EFI

guus@localhost:~> ls -la boot/efi/EFI
ls: kan geen toegang krijgen tot 'boot/efi/EFI': Bestand of map bestaat niet

then I set cli to english

guus@localhostsudo ls -la boot/efi/EFI 
ls: cannot access 'boot/efi/EFI': No such file or directory

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 4:03pm

@Gps2010 Your missing the leading / in the command…

Gps2010 · August 26, 2024, 4:08pm

ls: cannot access 'and': No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 guus users    0 Aug 26 17:40 ls

/boot/efi:
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 12  2021 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 26 16:42 EFI

/boot/efi/EFI:
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 26 16:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan  1  1970 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 12  2021 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 12  2021 opensuse
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 26 16:42 opensuse-leap

malcolmlewis · August 26, 2024, 4:16pm

@Gps2010 So can you mount /dev/sdb1 and show the contents;

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
ls -laR /mnt

If that has opensuse-tumbleweed, then it looks like your Leap overwrote tumbleweed on /dev/nvme0n1p1 because you had not renamed the DISTRIBUTOR section in the grub configureation…

No reboot!