Please add a "rebuil Steam OS"'s boot menu function

[☣PonyKing™]

I find every time when I update my steam os from my steam deck, my steam os option will removed... it is not easy to rebuild for someone are windows users(I know how to add it back, but not all users know), so next update, add this function for all, it will more help

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What do you mean?

[☣PonyKing™]

Originally posted by Škoda 14Tr:

What do you mean?

If you are not dual boot, you don't need to know about this post.

This post only happen for dual boot's steam deck

After steam os updated, the steam os boot option will remove from boot table by update

[Prezidentas]

Originally posted by ☣PonyKing™:

Originally posted by Škoda 14Tr:

What do you mean?

If you are not dual boot, you don't need to know about this post.

This post only happen for dual boot's steam deck

After steam os updated, the steam os boot option will remove from boot table by update

oh you are dual-booting. I believe this will be fixed when steamOS finally starts supporting dualbooting officialy.

[☣PonyKing™]

Originally posted by Škoda 14Tr:

Originally posted by ☣PonyKing™:

If you are not dual boot, you don't need to know about this post.

This post only happen for dual boot's steam deck

After steam os updated, the steam os boot option will remove from boot table by update

oh you are dual-booting. I believe this will be fixed when steamOS finally starts supporting dualbooting officialy.

Thanks, I hope so, because most people are using windows, they don't know linux command to fix this problem

[RealChris]

Originally posted by ☣PonyKing™:

Originally posted by Škoda 14Tr:

oh you are dual-booting. I believe this will be fixed when steamOS finally starts supporting dualbooting officialy.

Thanks, I hope so, because most people are using windows, they don't know linux command to fix this problem

Not Me, The Entire Point Why I Bought The Deck, Was To Learn How To Manage Linux N Ultimately Get Off Windows Entirely One Day. So I've Been Forcing Myself To Understand How Linux Works, I've Even Purposely And Sometimes Accidentally Brick My Console To Understand How Tos Etc To Solve Certain Errors Etc. But Nonetheless I Really Do Believe If Valve Keeps Adding On To SteamOS, One Day, It May Be Good Enough To Entirely Take On Window's. It Has Potential.

[jlobue10]

My guess is that your SteamOS EFI entry is missing. This is hit and miss for some people (who are dual booting), with the 3.4 update and BIOS update that comes with it.

Basically what's happening with the 3.4 update for some users is that the 110 BIOS update that comes alongside 3.4 is causing issues with some EFI entries (113 BIOS version likely has similar issues). In the case of OP, the SteamOS EFI entry is just totally gone (deleted). This can be restored as long as you can get into the BIOS with Volume Up & Power when turning on and then going to the 'Boot From File' option. You will want to boot the /esp/efi/steamos/steamcl.efi file to get back into SteamOS. Once in SteamOS, get to the desktop mode. Make sure to create a deck username if you haven't already (necessary for sudo commands). Run the following command from a command line (Konsole).

sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1 -L "SteamOS" -l \\efi\\steamos\\steamcl.efi

Reboot. Profit.

Slightly off topic of this discussion, but there is another annoying issue with Windows EFI entries from this latest stable branch update, for those who are dual booting Windows from the internal NVMe.

More info and documentation can be found here.

rEFInd Installation script resource [github.com]

[☣PonyKing™]

Originally posted by jlobue10:

My guess is that your SteamOS EFI entry is missing. This is hit and miss for some people (who are dual booting), with the 3.4 update and BIOS update that comes with it.

Basically what's happening with the 3.4 update for some users is that the 110 BIOS update that comes alongside 3.4 is causing issues with some EFI entries (113 BIOS version likely has similar issues). In the case of OP, the SteamOS EFI entry is just totally gone (deleted). This can be restored as long as you can get into the BIOS with Volume Up & Power when turning on and then going to the 'Boot From File' option. You will want to boot the /esp/efi/steamos/steamcl.efi file to get back into SteamOS. Once in SteamOS, get to the desktop mode. Make sure to create a deck username if you haven't already (necessary for sudo commands). Run the following command from a command line (Konsole).

sudo efibootmgr -c -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1 -L "SteamOS" -l \\efi\\steamos\\steamcl.efi

Reboot. Profit.

Slightly off topic of this discussion, but there is another annoying issue with Windows EFI entries from this latest stable branch update, for those who are dual booting Windows from the internal NVMe.

More info and documentation can be found here.

rEFInd Installation script resource [github.com]

Thank you so much, Yes, this is the problem I say, that is why I'm asking they can add a function/shortcut to let people just one click add it back.

[jlobue10]

That is not a trivial thing to do though at that stage of the booting process. A better thing to ask for is not having the SteamOS EFI entry deleted in the first place (in my opinion).

[☣PonyKing™]

Originally posted by jlobue10:

That is not a trivial thing to do though at that stage of the booting process. A better thing to ask for is not having the SteamOS EFI entry deleted in the first place (in my opinion).

Yes, this also help, but I think they will not do that... You know... this is valve

[jlobue10]

Actually, I think my suggestion and comment is much more likely and feasible since the SteamOS EFI entry being deleted is almost certainly an undesired effect from the firmware. This is something that they can most likely change in a future update.

[☣PonyKing™]

Originally posted by jlobue10:

Actually, I think my suggestion and comment is much more likely and feasible since the SteamOS EFI entry being deleted is almost certainly an undesired effect from the firmware. This is something that they can most likely change in a future update.

I hope so, and this really help.