The Operating Systems will be installed on a Crucial P3 Plus M.2 2280 1TB SSD.
Before installation, setup the PC boot mode to efi mode.
Launch the EndeavourOS iso and use the included GParted App to create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) for the SSD as follows:
GParted --> Device --> Create Partition Table --> Choose GPT
Use the above GParted App to create the following partitions:
550 MB for ESP (EFI System Partition) - by managing the flag
60 GB for EndeavourOS
60 GB for CachyOS
60 GB for WIN 11
60 GB for RebornOS
60 GB for Linux Mint
Start Installation:
First install the EndeavourOS. When finished launch it.
Then install reFind with the following command lines:
yay - S refind
refind-install
Next, install the remaining OS one by one into their respective partitions.
The reFind App will automatically create a boot up menu for all the installed operation systems, from which you can choose which OS to boot later on.
The bootup menu for rEFIND looks something like this:
To
set rEFIND as a
default EFI boot entry, You need to run the BIOS setup and use the BIOS menu (Boot Priority) to set it as the first priority to boot. In some situation, the installation process may have set this up for you.
rEFInd
will find and mount your ESP,
copy rEFInd files to esp/EFI/refind/
(and
use efibootmgr
to make rEFInd the default EFI boot application).
By default, rEFInd will scan
all of your drives and add a boot entry for each EFI bootloader it
finds, which should include your kernel. So you may have a bootable
system.
The
boot screen created by rEFInd could be quite crowded because Refind
will show boot entries for any EFI-executable or kernel that it finds
on any partition.
If a Linux system has multiple kernels installed,
then Refind will add a boot entry for each kernel. For each entry you
can see on the menu, file path of the EFI-executable or kernel that it will boot.
To make the boot screen look
nicer,
we can
hide some of the
entries for .efi
executables that
are installed in ESP.
To hide an entry, simply select
it with the arrow keys on your keyboard, and then press Delete.
The next time you restart the system, you will see the changes. It could look as simple as this one:
