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#1 Today 10:50:50

sweetthdevil
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[Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

Hello all,

I am dual booting my laptop with Windows 11 and Archlinux.
Yesterday, I was working on Windows 11 and left the laptop for several hours untouched, I can't recall an update but I image that's what happened.

Anyway, I did the usual this morning, booting Arch using a live usb, mount all partition (root, boot, home) arch-chroot into the system and re-installed Linux - which usually works.
That didn't worked, so I then added a new UEFI entry with efibootmgr and again that didn't work.

When the laptop boot, I select the UEFI entry for my Arch and it goes directly into Windows. - no error shown.
I checked and disable fast start up on Windows as well, but still no luck booting arch.

I am lost, any direction would be appreciated.

thank you

Last edited by sweetthdevil (Today 16:28:20)

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#2 Today 13:06:13

seth
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

From the install iso, what's the output of

lsblk -f
efibootmgr --unicode

?

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#3 Today 13:48:32

sweetthdevil
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

Thank you for your reply and your assistance - much appreciated.

Output of those two commands:

 
NAME        FSTYPE   FSVER LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
loop0       squashfs 4.0                                                                   
sda                                                                                        
└─sda1      vfat     FAT32 ARCH_202506 4A00-0427                                           
nvme0n1                                                                                    
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat     FAT32 SYSTEM_DRV  1892-97ED                             153.4M    40% /boot
├─nvme0n1p2                                                                                
├─nvme0n1p3 ntfs           Windows-SSD FAA89325A892DF85                                    
├─nvme0n1p4 ntfs                       44583B9F583B8F24                                    
├─nvme0n1p5 ext4     1.0               2d5cc09c-e4a4-48f9-a89f-abccbb352002   22.9G    32% /
├─nvme0n1p6 swap     1                 5b7553b1-f155-4c8b-bbe6-fe67a9cc0017                
└─nvme0n1p7 ext4     1.0               23a21a2c-62a8-48b0-b330-b20ea0f66afd   60.2G    20% /home
BootCurrent: 0003
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0005,0000,0004,2001,2002,2003
Boot0000* Arch Linux	HD(1,GPT,455ee187-ac9e-41bc-89fe-6ffcae80eb5e,0x800,0x82000)/\vmlinuz-linuxroot=UUID=2d5cc09c-e4a4-48f9-a89f-abccbb352002 rw initrd=\initramfs-linux.img
Boot0001* EFI PXE 0 for IPv4 (84-A9-38-90-F1-8B) 	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(84a93890f18b,0)/IPv4(0.0.0.0,0,DHCP,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0)䍒
Boot0002* EFI PXE 0 for IPv6 (84-A9-38-90-F1-8B) 	PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1d,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/MAC(84a93890f18b,0)/IPv6([::],0,Static,[::],[::],64)䍒
Boot0003* EFI USB Device (pqi     IntelligentStick)	UsbWwid(3538,54,0,4cc75d3180a50)/HD(1,MBR,0x1d7448,0x800,0x3d77f8)䍒
Boot0004* Windows Boot Manager	HD(1,GPT,455ee187-ac9e-41bc-89fe-6ffcae80eb5e,0x800,0x82000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi䥗䑎坏S
Boot0005* EFI-ArchLinux	HD(1,GPT,455ee187-ac9e-41bc-89fe-6ffcae80eb5e,0x800,0x82000)/\vmlinuz-linuxroot=UUID=2d5cc09c-e4a4-48f9-a89f-abccbb352002 rw init=\initramfs-linux.img
Boot2001* EFI USB Device	䍒
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM	䍒
Boot2003* EFI Network	䍒

P.S. the Arch Linux entry is the original that was working fine prior to yesterday, the EFI-Archlinux is the one I added today.
Both are added using efibootmgr with the 'UUID='

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#4 Today 14:20:48

seth
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

Is this supposed to be a https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image ?
Why does the EFI list a kernel, initramfs and commandline instead of an EFI?
Did you maybe rely on the windows bootloader offering to boot linux?

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#5 Today 14:26:49

sweetthdevil
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

No, it isn't. I just following the wiki on installation using efibootmgr.
Again, just followed the wiki - so unsure.

And the last one, absolutely not rely on the windows bootloader.

The above has worked for the past two years, with the few hiccups when Windows messed it up.

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#6 Today 14:37:26

seth
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_bo … _boot_stub ?
See the blue note - any chance the firmware (BIOS/UEFI) was updated?

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#7 Today 14:40:45

sweetthdevil
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

No chance, it's a Lenovo and it needs manual intervention which I did not do.

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#8 Today 14:47:46

seth
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

See whether it's willing to boot a UKI or bootloader efi

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#9 Today 15:10:40

sweetthdevil
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

I can see the UKI option, but sorry I am not sure what the bootloader efi is?

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#10 Today 16:28:00

sweetthdevil
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

Seth, thank you for your assistance.

I re-install linux and it now boot up again using the original bootloader entry.

Thank you, really appreciated the help.

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#11 Today 19:47:59

seth
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Re: [Solved] No longer booting after Windows 11 update

If re-installation the kernel w/o further change fixed it you might have previously installed the kernel into the mountpoint on the root partition - is there a kernel in /boot when  not mounting nvme0n1p1 there?

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