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[SOLVED] grub-probe error

Hi all,

I installed Artix base with runit along W10. I installed os-prober and ntfs-3g. When i do grub-mkconfig i get this error:

grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your divece.map.

The strange thing is that i tried to install in sda were it is supposed to find W10 efi partition. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

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Quote from: arturo – on
The strange thing is that i tried to install in sda were it is supposed to find W10 efi partition. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

W10 use to have secure boot enabled. as a demand to boot.

We, do not support secure booting.

So my guess is that you must disable secure boot at your BIOS settings, in order to boot.

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Hi, thanks for the answer linuxer. Yes i have secure boot disabled already, as well as fast boot.

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Quote from: arturo – on
Hi, thanks for the answer linuxer. Yes i have secure boot disabled already, as well as fast boot.
Hi,

Did you properly set the mount points at /etc/fstab/ during installation?

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Yes i set the mount points correctly. I followed the proccedure as suggested in the installation guide.  I cheked if everything was correct after generating the partition table and i found that the mount points where set correctly. I am thinking to chroot from live usb and try again, ¿what do you suggest?

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Well, this is the way I would go, in order to fix things such as possible incorrect UUIDs, for sure.

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Ok, i will try and then tell you what happened. Thanks!

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when you get error
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grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your divece.map
did grub-config work, except for the error?
The  /dev/sdb1 device does not point to a usb device by chance?

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Yes indeed it pointed to the usb were the the live Artix iso was installed. The grub-config worked except that it didn't find window EFI partition.

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What is the output if you run sudo os-prober manually?

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Hi Artist,

The output is:

WARNING: Failed to connect to lvmetad. Falling back to device scanning.
/dev/sda1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi

Now its working. At the begining while installation there was no output at all. I tell you this so you may take this issue into account.

I solved finally the issue, maybe not in a so elegant form like doing chroot, but installing grub-customizer. That solved the issue and now i have w10 in my grub. So i think this post can be considered as solved.

I want to thank  you all for your interest and trying to help me to solve the issue. Regards.