Fix Steam Deck Dual Boot not Booting after Steam OS Update (3.4)
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- Опубліковано 7 січ 2025
- Here is a quick workaround and a quick fix to get you back up and running without losing any data or having to download, install, re-image or otherwise make a lot of work to get things back to normal if your Steam Deck stopped booting or now only boots to Windows after an update.
This is affecting the most people after the most recent SteamOS 3.4 update as it changed the EFI boot loader settings.
We could manually fix those things, but this is the easiest solution that I could come up with to share, not everybody wants to get super details with terminal commands and system investigation.
Thank you so much! The only thing for me was I had to go I recovery mode, and it worked with the method you provided. When I tried Steam OS desktop, it gave me an error
Thanks for that feedback, I'll see if I can pin this Incase it happens to anyone else.
This channel is very underrated you deserve more subs ! Thank you very much for that and your dual boot guide, the best I have found with the shared storage convinience. I'll be waiting for your next video ! 💯👌
Got it to work. What I had to do was redownload the update and have it change to stable… simple fix.just copy each command one by one. Everyone of them and your good.
Thanks, this update just got pushed on the main channel and broke my dual boot. Your video got me on the track to get things right again.
Hey how do you get around permission denied
0:37 umm...HOW do I go to the bottom left option? No matter what I do, it chooses windows. Thats the only EFI option I have.
Lmao, just hold the Volume Up (+) instead of Volume Down (-) to bring up that main BIOS menu, TIL
Thanks a lot for this solution.
My boot menu was broken after the SteamOS upgrade, and now is back again: Windows and SteamOS.
Thanks!
The only issue I found is that I had to connect the Steam Deck to the dock first, and do the fix with mouse and keyboard, because the SteamDeck controllers and trackpad stopped working after the upgrade. But everything is fine now. 😁
My steam os disappeared from being able to be booted, But Windows 10 is still around
I just had this problem today, and I always jump straight to windows. When i press power and volume down button, they only have windows option. I cannot press left button symbol. I’ll always go back to the windows. Do you know what should I do ? Thank you
Did you find a way?
Thank you! I found some other tutorials but it wasnt quite what I had before, I just ran those commands and everything is back to how it was.
Second time this video has saved me. One for the few I actually have saved to my phone.
thanks man. Booted straight into windows and nothing in the boot menu. boot from file was the key. Once again, thanks. reinstallin everything from scratch would be a nightmare
How to enter the screen with options and boot from file?
I updated unknowingly immediately after buying a used one with existing dual boot on marketplace, so I followed the owners suggestion and reimaged steam os. Do you have tips on how to access the windows partition again?
Everyone is praising you in the comments, but you don't even say how to show the list of options in the boot menu. I can't select the lower left option because I don't know how to bring that screen up in the boot menu. I've pressed B just like you did and it just launches windows.
I can't even get back to that base boot menu. If I hit "B" from the first menu it just boots into windows
Where did you get that background for the dual boot
Hi. For some reason reboot from SteamOS takes me to boot options to choose. But not with Windows 11. After reboot it takes me to the windows again without option to choose OS.
Same, let me know if you find a solution
@@Khronyn hi, so here is the solution working for me.
1. Using Windows OS install EasyUEFI.
2. In the EasyUEFI tool choose “Manage EFI Boot Options”
3. Disable “Windows Boot manager”.
Now my deck boots to rEFInd every time.
@@tremblinghands2214 I found that solution too! Thanks though man!
@Trembling Hands I was looking all over for this solution and I didn't want to restart, like you said in steam os booted perfect in windows it got locked in windows turn on until you did - power and selected refind or steam os, this fixed my issue and I looked alote of places to fix this thank u
@@tremblinghands2214 You're a god! Love u!!!!!
OMG, you are a GOD, i was going crazy with this and i found y our channel by pure luck, i almost never post coment or but you this was easy and to the point, THANK YOU!!!
Glad I could help, I'll be sure to put up new videos for any important topics going forward as well.
THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!!! Hope this page gets a lot of 👍👍👍👍 it helped us BIG TIME! cheers to you!
life saver, did an update just as I was about to head out and thought I was screwed and would have to fix it at a later time. Great tutorial, super simple fast fix for the issue and everything is back to normal.
How fix windows boot partition?
I followed everything step by step but there's a problem, a sudo password that I don't believe I created one, all I remembered created was the 6 button code to enter to steam deck!
Hi. Thanks for the help . Question: In the BOOT menu, I see the system 1-"win os", 2- efi, 3- Steam os. Windows is always starts automatically. so: How can I change this? thx for you.
Did you find a way?
Still having the same problem when I shutdown in windows it only reboots to windows not the dual boot screen
Same here, cant find a solution for it yet
same here
Same..any solutions
i have a big problem wiht my steam deck dou boot so when i boot up to where the point at the screen with 2 logo steam deck and window but when i try to go into window logo it wont do anything the only thing works on steam deck logo, i already reset my steam deck but also didnt work
So I made the wrong turn and selected steam os in the menu and it broke all the controls on the deck, rip now my device is just a brick
I tried using a mouse and keyboard to control the boot manager and nothing, it's gone, no control m
Never broken, just re-image and get a fresh start.
I had the same issue but I’m able to get a USB mouse to work using the official dock made for Steam Deck.
what is, if i cant find my refind for steamOS?
Thank you 😁 tried a few methods, yours work like a charm
in my case - the rewind folder doesn´t exist anymore! is there a other solution (e.g. via steam-os recovery usb-stick) ?
Its not working anymore 😢
I have a problem. Both os is still in the bios (windows and steamos) but whatever i choose, it will still boot to windows. The same thing happen if i use boot from file. Any idea how to fix this?
What if you never had a dual boot and only bottled from the SD card? My windows 11 was working fine last night but then Steam updated and now I am stuck on preparing automatic repair when I try to boot windows. Please help if you can asap. 🙏🏼
Mine says permission denied on the Konsole after doing the refind install?
I cant do this my controller is not functional on the Steam Deck in the boot menu I tried using the dpad doesnt work.
I’m having a difficult time with dual booting windows to my created partition. I bought a 2tb ssd image steam os type in the script to get refind. When I’m ready to install windows it doesn’t give me an option to install windows in my newly created partioned. It just boots from the usb? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I cannot use my mouse or anything to click :( I just see the screen.
Also i did run into a problem when Windows would keep taking over the dual boot. You never showed us to the windows part into it so it doesn't keep doing that.
I don't know if mine is the same issue but I recently put windows 10 onto a usb SSD through Rufus set it as windows to go NTFS format it burned ok I did the - and power button to boot into the menu to select the os to begin the install but it doesn't show.ive tried 2 drives now and both do the same I am at a loss of what to do now if anyone can help that would be great.
In the same boat all I get is the logo when I boot steamos
My deck doesn't boot anything anymore. Can do nothing. No volume up, no volume down
I just tried this but it doesn't work after you boot in to windows. After that it just boots to windows not the dual boot manager?
Edit: ok so you need to run the script in recovery boot 👍 , all seems good now
What do you mean by recovery boot? Is that the one loaded from a usb?
so i recently downloaded windows onto a micro sd card for my steam deck and i installed dual booster but it will not for the life of my boot windows from it only steam os. any help would be advice would be greatly appreciated
can i update to 3.4 then dual boot? or would that not work? also can i do windows updates too? or would that also break the dual boot? i recently just got my upgraded ssd to dual boot.
Every time it turns on, I get that error, what do I do to fix it?
I have dual boot loader page working fine until i shutdown my steamdeck and power on.
After that i my steam os unable to boot from thr bootloader page.
Only the windows able.
I even try to manual boot but fail to boot steam os😮
Any idea?
Might it because of the latest steam os update?
Thanks for this. I just installed the 3.5 preview and ran into this issue. And this video didn’t fix it. Do you have any tips or could you point me in the right direction?
This is the first time I have had this setup break since I first did it. Mine broke too as the update froze.
It had to do with not being able to properly use the BTRFS file system.
You can repair it with the Steam Recovery Media, but its a complicated process.
So even myself having the skills to do that, I just re-imaged for a new start.
@@ViciousXUSMC ok thanks, this gives me a reason to maybe test WinDeckOS. Whats you thoughts on WinDeckOS?
Didn't work for me as shown in the video. But I chose a SteamOS folder (as suggested in the video as an option) in the menu and launched Steam efi file and it booted into Steam! Had to reinstall Refind GUI afterwards for it to work as before.
The efi isnt even available on mine when i go to boot from file
Any idea how to get around the permission denied? Doesnt prompt me to input the password
I have a problem with the internet disconnecting while playing, I don't know why
Did this in 2023. Still works!
after i copied the 4th line. it says permission denied? Help!
Will you have to do this every time why update the steam os?
Brilliant tutorial thanks a lot!!
when i get to my refind select screen and i select steamos, it brings me back to the same screen? idk how to fix
Same
i dont have "esp." file at all. What should i do?
This guy is a life saver
Sadly mine is still broken. It'll work like once but then breaks again after going into windows.
any fix for this yet? Mine also works once and breaks after using windows.
Still have the same issue?
@@Cub__ Nope I managed to fix it. I went into the konsole on steamOS and typed those lines in again. Originally that didn't work so I went into the recovery mode (Booting off a usb stick) and typed them in there. Then it seemed to work. I've now partitioned my micro sd card as well as the internal and have been running for about a month.
My steam doesn’t have any file in (Boot from file)
Same
Tysm this fixed my problem on os 3.4.11
when i go to /efi/boot/(..)/steamos/steamos.ffi file it doesnt work, i just have backlight and it stays for days
Thank you so much i got tired of loading through refine in boot menu,
1:25 there is eugene porter in the screen
Thank you so much, that really helped.
I went through this before and fixed it now I’m due for a update OS202030313.1. Is it safe that I update?
Did you ever update?
Thank you ! You're a life saver !
Happy to help :) the new Re-Find GUI makes things even easier.
For some reason when I paste the last command (./SteamDeck_rEFInd_install.sh) It just says permission denied even though I have set up a password for it already.
I don't see a steam os efi
saved my life thanks so much!
Happy to help, guessing the new firmware update got a lot of people. Glad to know these instructions are still able to help.
Is anyone else having steam is updates fail after setting up dual boot?
Soooo easy thank you!!!
works perfectly, great!!!
Bro but it’s not working
I should of never UPDATED🤦🏾♂️
Are you still having any issues? I'm on 3.3 still and wondering if I should update now, don't want my Duel boot being destroyed.
@@Cub__ don't do it I just did it and fucked mine up 🤦🏿♂️
@@akahee22 Fr?? Were you Duel booted with Windows?
I ended up doing it and surprising everything was just fine however it did mess up my Fallout New Vegas TTW Mod and I'm still figuring out how to fix it... It definitely seems as though every major OS update that it will mess some things up unfortunately, that's why I'll wait for even over a Month until more patches come out and things level out and seem safe to do so.
This fix still works!
This video is a lie, i cant even get mine to boot up into the boot menu correctly. Just keeps looping on me.
That means your boot files or partitions are corrupt. You have a one off problem, nothing wrong with the guide as you can see even this week I have had many people check in saying it worked for them even with the most recent update.
thanks it worked!
thank you so much!!!
Yw
Windows Boom Manager keeps overwriting these changes. I can set rEFInd as the default boot with these steps and then it's gets reset to Windows on the next boot. Anyone have an idea?
You can disable the windows boot manager from the terminal or even from windows.
That should fix it, but for me to know exactly what to do. I need to recreate the issue.
@@ViciousXUSMC I thought about that I just didn't want to lose the boot option for it
How is this done help cn you make a tutorial about this i have literally reinstalled like 15 like now so stressful hahah if you restart it in your 1st install it works after another boot its not working
@@PInoyHenyoRito Same issue
@@opfor947 Still having the same problem?
Thanks ❤️
Thank you, i’m so stupid about it 🤣😂
Ty 🙏 for saved me 😂
Thank you
thanks bro
Great this fucked up steam deck even more
😘
can you do this with a mac conputer i dont have a pc , I just got my steam deck and now I get this error message and cant booth up... this really sucks
Mine say error no such device found
Thank you