Which release version?
(if rolling release without a release version, skip this question)
(If rolling release, last date updated?) Installed and updated today
Which kernel are you using? whatever today’s installation would be.
Which BIOS version are you using? latest
Which Framework Laptop 13 model are you using? AMD Ryzen™ AI 300 Series
I just got the laptop last week. I originally installed Win 11 Pro and I want to have that as my primary OS. It’s got Bitlocker turned on by default (which I want to have).
I thought I would try dual booting Bazzite. I shrunk down the Windows partition and installed Bazzite into the empty space. After futzing with Secure Boot a bit, I’ve got to the point where I can dual boot through Grub, but I have a couple of issues:
There are two Bazzite entries in the grub menu
The grub terminal font is teensy and what Google tells me: sudo vi /etc/defaults/grub then sudo update-grub doesn’t seem to work as the latter doesn’t exist.
Similarly, I want the default boot to be Windows Boot Loader, and the above doesn’t work for that either.
About half the time when I boot to Windows, it gives me the dreaded “Enter your Bitlocker Recovery Key” warning.
Can anyone give me advice on how to deal with those issues? If not, can anyone tell me how to remove Grub and go back to the Windows boot loader? I’m pretty sure I know how I can blow away the linux partitions and grow the win one back.
I might end up buying one of the Framework 1 TB Expansion cards and install Bazzite on there instead of dealing with this.
It’s certainly possible that my Google-fu is just failing me here.
bazzite uses bootc/image-mode by default now (since fedora43) - which integrates rollforward/rollback into the bootloader entries with the current containerlayers available. If you mess with the default grub entries it will likely break this behaviour (although it can be made to work if you are careful). My suggestion for you would be to switch the bootloader via the bios bootmanager rather than grub and leave windows out of the linux boot menu completely.
Maybe it’s just my setup, but I really don’t want to deal with this bitlocker recovery anymore if I boot wrong. I tried going into the Framework EFI Boot Order menu in the Setup Utility, but everything is disabled in there. Is there really no way to adjust the grub settings safely?
An LLM suggests I could do this on the windows side to get the windows boot manager….
I mean nothing has changed between Fedora 42 and Fedora 43 regarding bazzite or grub. It has always had two boot entries for easy rollback to previous deployment.
Bazzite allows you to roll back to a previous installation and shows previous snapshots in GRUB. Unless you have crashes, pick the one that’s highlighted. Every time you do an upgrade, Bazzite will add a new entry in case you want to use the previous working copy (or a game played better on snapshots from a few releases ago).
Bazzite has a tool ujust for setting up many things (ujust docs here), including ujust configure-grub and ujust setup-boot-windows-steam .
These items aren’t Framework specific. There’s also a community around Bazzite who would be able to direct you to these answers, I hope that you find the answers you need.