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Sorry for making a post for such a basic question but I wasn't able to figure out my own so I'm come here as last resort.

I bought a new CPU, RAM, and motherboard combo and I migrated all my non-conflicting parts from my previous machine, which had a Linux install and a Windows install.

When I booted into the PC, I did not see an option in the boot menu or in the boot order for Linux whatsoever. Only my windows 11 IoT install and my new nanokvm.

I had a asrock x570 extreme4 and switch to a Msi Pro x870E-P WiFi. I have updated to the newest BIOS.

I was previously using systemd as my boot manager until I tried switching over to grub but neither trying to fix system D or installing grub seemed to work for me.

So I was hoping that I could delete my boot partition or somehow start from scratch without deleting any data in my root partition (Btrfs sub volumes) . and get a step-by-step installation guide for me since I can't seem to understand the arch wiki at my current state.

I would like to give you guys more information about the scenario and more context of what I've done, but i'm sadly not capable.

/dev/nvme0n1 is my linux install while /dev/nvme1n1 is Windows 11 IoT

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Switch from bios to uefi boot mode (or vice versa)?

Sometimes called legacy bios or something? From a quick google, might be called CSM

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

This is most likely it. Seems some newer boards don't just nicely support both UEFI and legacy booting and will straight up only do one or the other

[–] Comexs@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By default my motherboard came in with UEFI and I switched it to CMS and I did see more boot options they are USB Key,USB Floppy, and Network. I'm going to get a random 128gb SSD and use archinstall on it to see if show up on my system.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Odd that the disk didn't show up in the list there. If there are other options near CMS maybe have a play with them?

Another option to checkout is to disable secure boot?