After installing Arch, GRUB loads but the boot menu is completely empty — no Arch entry at all. It's as if Arch was never installed. I've reproduced this multiple times using different approaches and always get the same result.
The only way to get rid of the empty GRUB menu is to boot back into Windows, delete the partition I had allocated for Arch, and then GRUB disappears too.
What I tried:
I shrunk my Windows partition to free up ~105 GB of unallocated space, then during Arch installation I used manual partitioning and selected that unallocated space to create my partitions. Installation completed without errors, but after reboot Arch is nowhere to be found in GRUB.
Current situation:
Running Arch on VMware Workstation for now, but it lags badly. I really want a working dual boot setup
System info:
Firmware: UEFI
Partition table: GPT
Drive space allocated for Arch: ~105 GB (unallocated, shrunk from Windows)