Successfully installed CachyOS but now I don't know how to boot into it

General
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Im on a MSI Z7930-P Wifi motherboard

I installed cachyos on my secondary NVME drive which has no windows installation on it.

One partition is 2500mb fat32 /boot
the rest is 1TB of free space at /, and the default file format for cachyos

I used Refind boot manager.

When starting my pc it automatically goes to my Windows installation.

Pressing F11 during startup I get to a boot selection screen but all that shows up is the windows HD, and a USB.

I don’t know how to access Refind to get to linux now I am new to linux so I have never dual booted before.

Good thing is my windows installation isn’t gone…

Is there a way I can add Refind to my windows boot manager selection or what do I need to do?

Pleas help

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Did you add the boot flag when partitioning?

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I am unsure how to fix your issue, but in the meantime if you want to use CachyOS you can do so by going into your boot menu and booting into the SSD it’s located on. I am unsure about your computer, but for me it’s F2 on reboot to get into boot menu, and then F8 to bring up drives, and then I just navigate using arrow keys and click enter on the one I want to boot into. It’s how you would normally test a live environment on a USB.

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Yes i forgot to mention I clicked the boot flag when partitioning on the 2500mb fat32 drive

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I got it working and im on it, its great.