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?

    • dittyOPEnglish
      3•15 days 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).

      • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
        4•15 days 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.

      • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
        3•15 days 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.

        • dittyOPEnglish
          2•15 days 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!

    • dittyOPEnglish
      2•15 days 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.

  • deadcatbounce
    2•15 days 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!