Removing duplicate GRUB entry?

2 years ago by dditty to c/archlinux

Hey all, I recently wound up with duplicate GRUB entries for my Garuda install. The second entry is the same installation as the top one. How can I remove the duplicate? Should I edit the grub config file?

just_another_person 11 points 2 years ago

Yep. Edit /etc/default/grub, then run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to generate the new menu. Reboot.

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dditty 3 points 2 years ago

Perfect, will do. Thanks! I just wanted to check first since some threads I read online were very cautionary about editing the grub config file (for obvious reasons).

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just_another_person 4 points 2 years ago

Yes, you need to be careful about syntax errors and dead links but otherwise, any major issues should be caught by mkconfig. You can always just boot from a liveUSB if you mess something up and fix it.

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dditty 1 point 2 years ago

hey @just_another_person@lemmy.world i'm not sure what to remove from my grub config file. Here are the contents of the file, do you know what I should delete or comment out to get rid of the duplicate grub entry? https://pastebin.com/q8TEJMk5

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just_another_person 3 points 2 years ago

So your config is importing other drop-in configs as mentioned here:

# This config file imports drop-in files from /etc/default/grub.d/.

Go look in that directory. You probably just have a duplicate file with your menuentries which you can just rename to be safez then run your mkconfig command again and reboot.

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dditty 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, that's what I thought but when I checked the file that was there its contents didn't seem like what I was expecting. I just backed up the file there, deleted the original, ran the command to remake the grub menu and rebooted, and it worked! Tysm!

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just_another_person 2 points 2 years ago

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FreeBird 4 points 2 years ago

This might help.

https://archlinux.org/...

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dditty 2 points 2 years ago

I thought about using this but I found some Garuda threads that say not to use it since Garuda uses garuda-boot-options instead.

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deadcatbounce 0 points 2 years ago

[tangential] Please can I suggest that you follow a path to remove grub completely. There really isn't any need to have it anymore, certainly on systemd distributions. I don't know much about Void Linux and the others, so YMMV there.

Re-edit: it's a ArchLinux community. Doh!

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