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Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11
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Unfortunately, the windows bootloader issues are also ingrained in UEFI for many motherboards. Every few days I start my PC up and it has decided my grub entry is garbage and does me the favor of removing it and defaulting back to the windows bootloader.
I've worked around this by adding a bootcfg entry to the windows bootloader that points at grub. Now any time this happens, I pick the grub entry from the windows bootloader, my PC reboots, and now it'll keep defaulting to grub again until the next time it decides to wipe it.
how did you add grub to the windows bootloader's menu? I thought microsoft made this impossible, along with adding older windows versions
iirc it was using Method 3 on this guide (but my efi path looks different).
Edit: oh, I also definitely used
bcdedit /copyto clone the windows entry, and then edited the clone.