Why must Ggaruda be installed last in dual boot

A simple question came to mind. These days due to a hardware failure i had to reinstall all my setup. Garuda is my main system, but usually installed besides any other system that changes time to time.
I have been installing Arcolinux, Regolith, EndeavourOS.....

my question is:

why i MUST ALWAYS install Garuda last?
if I install any other system after Garuda. The grub menu never shows garuda option. Installing Garuda tha last then any other system is recognized and set in grub.

Very annoying because I want to keep garuda and test any other distro in the secondary disk but I don't want to be forced to re-install garuda

I don't know the answer and someone else might give you more insights, anyway, I don't think you need reinstalling Garuda, just update the grub from a live USB should be enough.
Or maybe check efibootmgr and set Garuda as first.

I quickly got used to this property and use it to my advantage. As far as my previous experience reaches, only Garuda can do that. I love it!

Warning: the GRUB customizer is useless or dangerous!

Because BTRFS is relatively new. Most Grub bootloaders on above distros were forked long ago, so they are outdated. I believe that Fedora should recognize Garuda, because they recently also got BTRFS, I will test it now. (It is quite some time that I dual booted :sweat_smile: )

BTW, you do not have to reinstall Garuda Linux again and again. Instead, you can simply boot into live media and reinstall grub with Garuda-boot-options. And all your other distros will be recognized.

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Because the other os doesn't use grub for BTRFS. One simple way is to avoid installing the bootloader on the other os and then boot to Garuda and update grub.

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(pedantic soapbox) And because no one ever planned on a dual-boot system. Dang it, Windows is the only OS, we don't share. (etc)

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Dual (and multi) boot systems need not include Windows! Mine (multi-multi) don't :grin:

BTW - I use rEFInd, and Garuda is the only one I need grub for - so I have rEFInd run that. That way os-prober never needs to run - just the snapshot tracking...

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So, as expected, fedora auto detected Garuda at once

(Fedora 34 workstation edition)

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Besides the btrfs that latest grub can see and use, multiple initrds are recognized by default. :wink:

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