• towerful@programming.dev
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    5 hours ago

    I installed endeavouros on my windows laptop.
    The installer guided me through the partitioning, setting up systemd-boot, and it was all great.
    I had to disable bitlocker in windows (not that bothered about) and secure boot in bios (also not that bothered about).

    Ran smoothly dual booting both for about 4 months.
    Then a windows update hit, and fucked the boot.

    Thankfully, this is a common enough thing that there are plenty of tutorials out there.
    A liveUSB of endeavouros, some tinkering, and I was back up and running.

    The cause seems to be FastBoot, where windows keeps the boot partition mounted. What I think happens is that bios tries to read the boot partition, which is configured/loaded for windows (because it never cleaned up after itself due to FastBoot being on) and boots into windows.
    Since turning off FastBoot, I haven’t had any issues in the past 8 months.