Back when I dual booted, I had the most success keeping Windows on a separate drive completely. After making the Linux drive the primary boot device, GRUB would pick it up and I'd be off to the races. I now just keep a Windows VM -- it's been much easier to deal with.
Boy howdy, you best keep that BitLocker key handy, though.
I'm not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?
Just when recovering a windows partition encrypted with bitlocker.
I was going to dual boot, to kind of test the waters of using Linux as my primary. Then I heard there were is with Windows not wanting to play nice, so now I just run Linux.
And to be honest I don't actually know what any of the issues are, I didn't care enough to even search it. I just said Fuck Windows and moved on with my life.
Windows is literally designed to break multi-boot setups. Funny enough, multibooting on a Mac was never a big problem. Microsoft has more of a reason to cooperate here and they just can’t help themselves.
Setting a BIOS password stops Windows from fucking with most things in your boot partition, I’d open-mouth kiss whomever told me that tip
I told you. Now kiss me ( ˘ ³˘)
This info would have been so fucking useful a decade or two ago
you mean that password function actually had a use this whole time?!?
Always keep a backup of your boot partition, when dual booting with windows. I wouldn’t encourage a windows boot though
I have dual boot for long time already. Win 11 + Ubuntu. Although there was no any critical issues so far, except some mess up with internet connection on my ubuntu few times.
Windows only in a VM.
That is the only way.
I'm glad I've always kept Windows on a separate disk.
Mine still got fucked.
I dual boot grub+linux from a wholly separate drive set as the boot drive, windows boot loader is unused, untouched, isolated on the windows drive.
Windows update still broke grub.
Pull my hair out for a few hours trying to find a fix, about to try something but have to reboot one last time.
Everything is fine, back to normal.
I've been dualbooting for over a year now. Made sure each system has its own separate drive. I've noticed that every time I had to reinstall Linux, my windows boot entry is gone and then I can't access it no matter what I tried. Turned out installing Linux first then windows was my mistake. When installing windows while there is a Linux install, windows will see the EFI partition already there and just decides to share it, and doesn't create its own.
I found that out by accident while I was in windows' storage management. There was no efi partition. Took a whole day to find out how to create one on the same drive where windows is installed and removing the one it created on the Linux partition. It was so painful.
Bottomline, install windows first if you want to dualboot. After that, even if windows takes over the boot after an update, all it does is resets the boot sequence and makes it default to it. You'd just need to access the bios and reset the sequence to prioritize Linux. That's it
When installing windows while there is a Linux install, windows will see the EFI partition already there and just decides to share it, and doesn’t create its own.
That's what it's supposed to do, it's a plain FAT32 partition, the bootloaders are just files you put in there.
Part of the issue is that while a well-made motherboard will look for all bootloaders on the partition and present them as options in the firmware UI, bad ones will only look for a specific file (\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI) and use that. For an OS to have a chance of booting on those boards it has to overwrite that file, blowing away whatever other bootloader was there before.
It's annoying, since Windows is mostly well behaved here (It puts the main copy of the bootloader at \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi and Linux bootloaders can see that and offer it, the reverse isn't true) and can co-exist with Linux well (Well...), but manufacturers cutting corners causes more problems for everybody.
Just stop dual booting. This is self-inflicted harm. Setup a VM or find a native workaround.
Windows is the virus
What the heck is the origin of this meme template? And am I the only one who thought this was Roger Stone?
Imagine dual booting in 2025.
I don’t have a choice but to have Windows available. I have a close friend group who plays an old Half Life 1 mod online and it does NOT work at all on Linux. We’re the only people still playing it so there’s no support available. It’s janky sometimes even on Windows, but we’re never giving it up, it’s too much fun.
Which mod tho
Oh sorry!
The Specialists HD. It’s a shooter with kung-fu and sick flips and all sorts of crazy shenanigans.
Put Windows and Linux on two separate physical drives and this will never happen
To my own surprise, it can happen.
Oh it absofuckinglutely happens. If you install Linux first then Windows, windows will see the boot partition and use it instead of creating its own. Install windows first on its own, then install Linux. How I know? Hmmmmm
man this meme is als old as windows 7 or has been recreated in exact this form over and over again, i am not sure witch of those
that's why i just deleted my entire hard drive and installed mint on the whole thing
Variations of this meme get posted every week, but I've never experienced it, despite having had tens of grub updates murder-suicide the Windows boot loader and grub itself across five or six different machines. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to rebuild a Windows boot partition, but the frequency that I'm hit with this problem is one of the major reasons I avoid using Linux. Eventually I'm going to have to switch, but that's driven mainly by Windows getting worse rather than any of the pain points I've had when trying to switch full time in the past having been fixed.
windows removed my grub bootloader at least 3 times even once after i started using seperate drives.
ive never had the opposite happen.
General Reposti
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Grand moff taken
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Luke, did I ever tell you about Reposter Tano?
Ah the repostiator is here
I find your lack of OC disturbing.
You can't stop the reposts, anymore than you can stop the suns from setting.
So this is how OC dies - with thunderous applause. Reposts! Unlimited reposts!
The Reposter took everything from me. Ripped me from my source, murdered my original poster, used me as a karma coe, and then cast me aside. Abandoned me. Once, I had originality — now I have nothing.
I am no OC.
If you define yourself by your power to shitpost, your desire to karmawhore, to possess, then you have nothing.
The garbage’ll do! (No need to alter that one, I guess.)
You know, no matter how funny you are, I’ve always hated watching you be reposted.
A prequelmeme to be sure, but a reposted one!
General Thievous... You're older than I expected
Your clones are not that impressive, you must be very ashamed.
Watch those wrist reposts
Are we blind, deploy the downvotes
Oh no the reposter
A repost to be sure and an unwelcome one
Guess I was wrong, there was no OC at all
Master, reposters
I don’t like reposts, they're rough, coarse, irritating and they get everywhere
now THiS is reposting
You'll try reposting that’s a bad trick
This is where the repost begins
We will watch your repost with no interest
I will deal with this repost slime myself
I don’t think the OC works
Henceforth, you shall be known as Ctrl+Vader!
The ability to post does not make you original
Only a sith deals in reposts
It’s over OP, I have the high karma
You were supposed to destroy the reposters not join them!
What about the repost attack on the OC?
My powers have doubled since the last time I saw this post OP
You are on this subreddit, but we don’t give you the rank of OC
Fool, I have been trained in repost identification arts by Count Dooku
I downvoted them all, they're dead, every single one of them. And not just the reposts, but the shit posts and the OC too. They're reposts, so I downvoted them like reposts. I hate them!
You ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagiarism the unwise, I though not, it’s not a story the mods would tell you. It’s a reddit legend. Darth plagiarism was a dark lord of reposting. So dumb and so unoriginal, he would use the sort by hot to find good posts and create reposts. He had such low knowledge of posting he couldn’t even keep the karma he loved from dying. The dark side of reposting is the path to many disabilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so weak, the only thing he was still afraid of loosing was his reposts, which eventually of course he didn’t. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice reposted his post. Ironic, he couldn’t keep others karma from dying, not even his own
You have failed me, OP.
The repost is strong with this one.
If one is to understand the great OC. One must create it and all of its aspects. Not just the dogmatic narrow low effort of the reposts.
The oppression of the repost will never return! Your plot to regain control of the Subreddit has failed! It's over! You have lost!
How many other posts have I seen reposted by this Subreddit?!
You've already stolen the OC... This is just a repost!
Reposting is not the Jedi way.
You are no OC creator.
We got Reposts!
Good redditors, create OC
OP. You're crazy reposting a meme is not OC.
Reposters, take 'em down!
They've sent in the Reposters!
Reposters. Dead ahead.
Just like the other post.
Your arrogance blinds you, Master Reposter.
You are weak and unwise, and I am very ashamed of you, Reposter.
Unfortunately for you, your karma will not be seen that way.
Set 'em up, and vote 'em down!
The Repost Menace
Attack of the Reposts
The Repost Wars
Revenge of the Repost
Rogue Two: A Repost Story
Reposto: A Repost Story
Star Wars: Reposters
A New Repost
The Repost Strikes Back
Return Of The Post
The Grabalorian
The Repost Awakens
The Last Repost
The Rise of Repost
I am getting the impression you have seen this meme somewhere before and are upset about it. Have you considered maybe this is a you issue? And, that some of us are seeing this for the first time?
their message is a repost as well, they didnt even bother to remove reddit reference, probably didnt even read it lol
Easily solved. Just run mkfs_ext4 on the windows partition, and mount it as an additional filesystem.
I'll do you one better. Do you know what a windows update killed on my multi boot system? It killed the windows bootloader. I'm working on a permanent solution to fixing this bootloader fudgery.
Well, one permanent solution is to permanently ditch Windows
I know this one weird trick to avoid this..
Hint: :q!
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