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I'm not sure when this changed, but I discovered recently that my MCC boot loader setup changed.

I used to be able to reorder the boot options or add new ones (like one for Windows, which I seldom boot into).

Now, MCC->Boot->Set up boot loader->Next looks like the attached image.

What's going on?

are you using grub2?

I believe so, but I'm not sure how I can tell. I have both grub and grub2-efi installed (I'm guessing they both came this way out of the box, I didn't manually install either), and the system is EFI-based.

If you boot up using GRUB, then the expected list that that is editable- re-ordering, adding and naming etc- will be presented.

if you boot up using GRUB2, then you need to edit the GRUB2 conf. file.
Not something I have done, so hopefully, some-one who does know, will be along.

note: editing the GRUB boot list via MCC, unfortunately does not translate to GRUB2.

regards

Benmc

Hi,
If you need some help about grub2-efi for Mageia, you can read this wiki page:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Grub2-efi_and_Mageia

steveh wrote:I used to be able to reorder the boot options or add new ones (like one for Windows, which I seldom boot into).
What's going on?

The short answer is 'no'. You cannot reorder the list on grub 2 as you could on grub-legacy.[1]
However you can set default to a specific OS to boot; the 'cursor' will start at that OS though the order won't change.

As to getting Windows (or other OS's) into the menu, a simple
"sudo update-grub2" or "sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" at terminal will do.

[1] - You can manually reorder the list in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg as you could in grub-legacy in /boot/grub/menu.lst
- But, as in grub-legacy, this reorder will revert if 'update-grub' or 'grub-install' is done.
- grub 2 strongly discourage this, but you can if you want to, provided you know this will change; as in grub-legacy.

I think grub-customizer offers more options for grub2 than other tools, though it's still not perfect I would give it a try.

petedan10 wrote:I think grub-customizer offers more options for grub2 than other tools, though it's still not perfect I would give it a try.

I would strongly discourage using grub-customizer.
I will work okay when installed. But after some kernel updates or grub reinstall, there have been instances of people in many other distros complaining new kernel wasn't booted and won't be in menu, etc..
And when uninstalling it, there would be left some leftovers and some double entries.

But just my opinion, just be aware.