Custom OS Entry

[makk]

Greetings,

 

Ran into a tangle where, now seeing three Windows Icons on Boot Menu.

 

Rather strange to see and seeing two Windows in Finder on the Left Navigation Pane.

 

Only have 1 Windows on this laptop.

 

The issue was for custom entry ->  /\ <- inbetween the two statements.  funny thing

 

However after updating Ventura and 0.8.7 seeing three Windows Icons and they all point to and boot 1 Windows.  What would cause such ruckuss?

 

Have deleted the EFI folder once and then booted with USB.

Running two drives.

Dedicated Windows and dedicated MacOS. 

Have used install USB for Windows, ran diskpart deleted the EFI and recreated it.

 

DIskutil lists only 1 Windows with it's EFI and Reserve partitions/volumes.

1 EFI for MacOS.

 

Strange occurence.

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by makk

[makk]

6 hours ago, eSaF said:

Try this value in your config.plist.

@eSaF  Perfect! worked for both Desktop and Laptop.

 

I'm running two Windows Versions 11 and 10 with each their own drives on my Desktop.

 

For Custom Entry each has their own EFi.  

the Windows 11 doesn't boot from Custom Entry but Windows 10 does.

Gets a bit tricky 

 

 

I think I missed a step here where the Boot entry in BCD in EFI is set to one Windows only and well to 

have it so two Windows OS are using the same BCD ? 

Edited December 8, 2022 by makk

[makk]

Able to boot through Open Shell

the Windows 11 EFI is FS4:

 

executed:>FS4: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi

 

however in the Custom Entry to make it boot uses /\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI which works for Windows 10.

 

What I've done is used the Install USB Shift + F10

used diskpart to assign letter to the SYSTEM > EFI for Windows 11, otherwise bcdboot won't initiate for some reason? strange.

then executed bcdboot E:\Windows /s V: /f UEFI so as to boot through BIOS as well F12 Boot Menu

Then using Open Shell ran the above afore and booted into Windows 11

 

I think what has happened is Windows 10 is only recognized in the Custom Entry is this a bug?

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by makk

[makk]

@eSaF

 

Ok fixed

 

For Windows 11 after testing through Open Shell that it does indeed boot with -> \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi

entered that into the Custom Entry. And now boots. 

 

whatever works.

 

I believe on Dortania for dual boot I saw a write up using the above entry for Windows...

 

But others use \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI 

 

either way works

 

It may be that only One Windows can use \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI ?

and the other    \EFI\ Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi?

 

UPDATE: Just ran ---> {{   \EFI\ Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi   }}  for both and have both with this statement for Custom Entry no conflicts.

 

 

Edited December 8, 2022 by makk

[makk]

@eSaF   Thank you very much for all your aid! Much appreciated!