Questions tagged [multi-boot]
Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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Windows entry missing in grub after MXLinux update (Dual-Boot)
I recently updated my MX21 to MX23 using this guide( https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/upgrading-from-mx-21-to-mx-23-without-reinstalling/ ), but now the Windows entry is missing in the Grub start up ...
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Installing "bootable USB" programs (Gparted, Clonezilla, Memtest, etc.) to internal drive partitions - Bad idea?
Is there any reason why it might be a bad idea to take programs that are typically installed as bootable USB drives and instead create an appropriately sized partition for each of them on the internal ...
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Windows black screen while trying to boot up windows installed with Kali Linux
I'm encountering a issue while dual booting Windows and Kali in my MacBook Air (Late 2017 model). I have both Windows 11 and Kali Linux on my laptop. I installed Windows 11 initially, and than Kali ...
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How to restore GRUB in my case?
I have 2 NVMe in my system, let's call them OldDrive and SecondaryDrive.
OldDrive had Windows installed, and SecondaryDrive had various Linux distributions installed.
I replaced OldDrive with NewDrive ...
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Dual-boot Bluetooth with LE QC35II headphones on Windows / Linux inconsistent or not working
I've been having a terrible time connecting my Bose QC35II (LE) to Windows 11 when I also have a Linux Mint partition on a separate M.2 drive for months. It was the same story on Windows 10, Debian/...
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Make a bootable WinRE and certain applications in it [duplicate]
Although, you guys know what is "Bootable entrances" right? As to run a Windows or any bootable stuffs (like WinPE or tweaked Android, Linux,... OS)
Usually we need a Recovery Environment ...
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Can I move the /boot/efi and the swap partition?
I have a Manjaro/Windows 11 dual boot going on, but it seems I haven't allocated much space for the root filesystem (~25GB) and now it's warning me of low disk space, so I need to expand root space.
I ...
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unable to unlock advanced settings of bios in haeir y11b laptop
I have Haier y11b laptop. it has two drives. one drive capacity is 30gb which has windows installed. the other drive capacity is 465gb. as the 30gb drive capacity is too low for other software to be ...
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Is it possible to fix boot on (probably corrupted) bitlocker+tpm encrypted win11 partition?
I have a dual-boot ubunntu+win11 setup on my drive. Out of sudden, after normal shutdown, next day neither the grub nor windows boot manager could boot. After running fsck from ubuntu live usb, ubuntu ...
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How to encrypt a disk with 2 Windows OSes and 3 partitions with Vera Crypt? [duplicate]
I have a disk with an MBR partition scheme and 3 partitions. On the first partition, there's a Windows 7 C: drive which I keep to play some retro games that won't run on newer Windows. The second ...
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How to encrypt a disk with 2 Windows OSes and 3 partitions with Vera Crypt?
I have a disk with an MBR partition scheme and 3 partitions. On the first partition, there's a Windows 7 C: drive which I keep to play some retro games that won't run on newer Windows. The second ...
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Inconsistent partition size
I have a 1tb SSD and Windows 11 installed on it. I wanted to make a dual boot with Zorin, then I created a tiny 40gb partition for it. Some moments later, I realised 40gb wasnt enough, so I tried to ...
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How do I transfer boot partitions after installing Windows 10 and 11 to different drives?
I have a computer that dual boots Windows 10 and 11. Windows 10 was installed first on a SATA SSD, while Windows 11 was installed afterwards to a separate M.2 SSD. Now that I've been on Windows 11 for ...
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How can I make Linux/Win10/Linux triple-boot work?
I have two physical drives: 500GB Samsung 860 M.2 and 1TB WD SSD
The entire Samsung is Ubuntu 22.04 (/dev/sdb)
The 1st half of the WD is Windows 10 (/dev/sda2)
The 2nd half of the WD is Debian 12 (/...
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Multi-boot Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Arch in a UEFI system with one disk
Goals:
Multiboot, where I can select Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Arch in the Grub menu.
I guess only one of the Linux dists (Ubuntu?) should be in charge of the Grub EFI binary.
But the different ...
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Programs crashing on WIN11 after creating Ubuntu dual boot
I installed Ubuntu on my PC in a dual boot setup with Win 11 (which I have used solo in the past).
I am having issues with programs (steam, chrome, steam games and discord) crashing or not starting ...
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What does “/EndEntire” followed by “file path: /ACPI(…,…)/PCI(…)/UnknownMessaging(…)/HD(…,…,…,…,…)/File(…)/File(…)/EndEntire” during boot mean?
I use Secure Boot, followed by GRUB2, set up to boot Debian 12 and Windows 11 at the choice of a user. Right after the user chooses Windows and hits ⏎, we see a black screen with two white lines on it ...
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Pop! OS, no output to Line Out only when other audio output devices conntected
I've recently set up dual booting on my computer, with Windows 10 and Pop! OS (Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS). I have speakers plugged into my motherboard from the back, and headphones plugged into the case's ...
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In a dual boot setup, how do I move Windows 10 partition to new drive?
My lsblk output looks like this
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 100M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 390G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 ...
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How to use efi partition for windows and multiple linux multi boot setup
I recently bought a laptop and wanted to install multiple Linux flavors alongside the provided Windows 11.
In a video tutorial, they suggest creating a separate EFI partition and selecting it as the ...
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GRUB stopped working
GRUB stopped detecting Windows and I followed a tutorial that is now lost to time and it didn't work. Since I need Windows for gaming still I just repartitioned everything and installed Windows onto ...
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replacing main drive in a multi-OS setup without breaking GRUB or reinstalling every OS
I have two NVMe drives on my PC, the first (and original) one has Windows, the default OS on my PC.
Later on, I added a second NVMe drive, where I installed a few Linux distributions.
I get a menu at ...
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Dual boot between the same linux OS on two different disks?
I have a computer with two separate hard drives, I want to use one for personal use, and one for work related uses.
Since I am quite used to Debian, I thought I could simply install the first instance ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu after format, it seems I have both Ubuntu versions now
Title can be confusing, I wanted to summarize my problem. I am open to suggestions, so sorry for that.
I had Windows 11 and Ubuntu 18.04 both installed as dual boot. I wanted to delete Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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How to hide two Windows installations from each other?
I have Windows 11 Pro and Windows 10 Pro installed side by side on the same computer. (Why? Because reasons.) Requirements are that 11 must be running Bitlocker, and SecureBoot must be enabled (due to ...
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Need Address Book to Appear in ALL Dual Boot Operating Systems
My main computer has 3 O/S's (WinXP, Win7, and Win10) on separate partitions. I initially (YEEAARS ago) set up Thunderbird in XP. Added a Win7 partition (maybe 2010 or so) using the T-Bird e-mail ...
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Another Triple Boot Classic Mac Pro Project
Forgive me for asking a question that has been asked a number of times over the last many years. In my case after several weeks of searching and researching, I have not found an answer that is current ...
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grub mkconfig finds Fedora and updates the config file, but Fedora doesn't appear in GRUB after reboot
I am a bit new to Linux, so please excuse my lack of knowledge and skill. I basically tried to triple boot Windows, Fedora, and Arch. I have two drives in my computer. One of them has Windows ...
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PC keeps changing boot order automatically (Windows/Linux dualboot)
I have a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro mainboard, and in the BIOS settings I set the first boot drive to my 250GB SSD which has Windows 10 installed, and the second boot drive to my 500GB SSD which has ...
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manually add boot entry
I recently had to reinstall windows. I have 2 hdd's, both with windows installed, but only had to reinstall on one of them.
However now my boot selection screen (to choose which of the hdds/windows ...
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Clone Windows (11) to new SSD and dual-boot from new and old
I have added a secondary SSD to my laptop and cloned the disk with Clonezilla.
I call them SSD1 and SSD2.
Now I have two identical disks with Windows 11. But I'm not able to boot from the new ...
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How to enter BIOS menu?
Laptop Fujitsu LH532.
After an unsuccessful attempt to install Arch Linux, I cannot enter the BIOS menu of the laptop. It just beeps, power keeps being on, but it doesn't load anything and does not ...
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How to repair the bootloader for a bitlocker encrypted drive
I tried to create a dual boot setup with Windows 10 (BitLocker encrypted) and Manjaro Linux (on 2 separate drives) but this didn't work. Now I have only the option to boot Linux, Windows doesn't show ...
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Linux update affects Windows in dual-boot?
I have the following fresh dualboot setup on my laptop:
Windows 11 Pro + Rocky Linux 9 on separate partitions
EFI secure boot in use
I enabled filesystem encryption on Rocky Linux when installing it ...
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I get an error invalid format at initial stage after kali linux logo
I get an error invalid format at initial stage in Kali Linux and screen goes blue. How can i solve this issue? Dual boot Kali install. I am new to use Kali Linux.
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How do I get rid of GRUB and go back to Windows 10 only
There are answers to similar questions about prior Windows releases (XP and 7 mostly), but I cannot follow them in Windows 10. Too many menu options and commands do not exist in Windows 10.
My ...
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Windows 11 installed on a refurbished HP so that I can't suppress Secure boot mode to boot on USB
I recently bought a refurbished HP Z4 G4 with windows 11 already installed. In order to dual boot, I have to change the bios/UEFI Secure Boot to disable (and legacy to enable). I am able to change it ...
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How to setup a dualboot with Debian and FreeDOS
I am running Debian on a very old EEEPC which is ok. Unfortunately its Intel-Atom-Processor is not capable of virtualizing a second OS. So I would like to add FreeDOS to GRUB and run it natively to ...
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GRUB Repair with Windows 10 Dual Boot Arch Linux
I've been using Arch Linux for 4 months and I was trying to have Dual Boot with Windows 10. After the installation of Windows 10 and formatting the disk again it went great, zero problems, but, when I ...
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How do I dual boot two versions of Windows 10 while hiding all other disk partitions from the 2nd win install
GPT partitions, EFI boot.
I want to have 2 windows 10 installs, one "normal" and other as a "test". I don't want the "test" version not to be able to change or even see ...
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My internal hard drive only appears in the windows operating system
Does anyone have an idea why my disk only appears in windows.
I have tried to install kali linux, wifislax, chrome flux and many other systems, but the problem is that the internal disk of the device ...
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Dual boot using two different SSDs, where the windows one already has a grub loader
I have this problem:
I have an SSD running Windows. Some time ago I did a dual boot using an SD card, putting the /boot partition inside the SSD (ssd0). This worked fine.
Now I bought a new SSD (ssd1) ...
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Can you make "offline" ssd with grub
I have an SSD with Ubuntu where GRUB is located (I think it should be there because I installed grub when I was on Ubuntu). I also have nvme ssd with Windows, and another hdd used by that windows as a ...
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dual boot debian and windows 11 with veracrypt
I have an hp laptop with windows 11 and whole disk encryption with AES using veracrypt, is there any way to have it dual boot with DragonOS (an sdr linux distro based on debian buster) without having ...
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How do I dual boot with 2 linux distros of the same name?
I'm trying to install Artix linux on UEFI, however i already have an Artix system installed on my desktop, which i'm trying to dual boot a second installation of Artix with (because the first one just....
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Stuck in GRUB command line, even after grub updates
I am dual booting PopOS and Windows 11 on my Dell Laptop.
Today I was doing some updates to nvidia drivers (probably unrelated) and after a reboot I was stuck inside the GRUB shell (not the rescue ...
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windows refuses to boot from original nvme drive after cloning to a sata drive
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After learning about a potential firmware issue with one of my nvme drives (search: Samsung 980/990 pro read-only bricking 2023 February). I decided to apply the appropriate firmware ...
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Can you dual boot two operating systems on seperate disks and one is removable?
I want to dual-boot with Linux (Debian) being my primary operating system on internal SSD and Windows 10 on an separate external SSD as my secondary, because my laptop has only one disk storage slot.
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Re-adding .efi file to uefi boot
After upgrading to windows 11 my Kali Linux entry disappeared from the Boot menu. When I hit F9 (select boot device) I can select windows, or I can browse the efi partition and select the grubx64.efi ...
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windows partition rotten following partition size change on a dual-boot Windows/Linux
I am stuck:
On a dual-boot Windows/Linux PC, in order to enlarge the boot partition which was running out of space to update the kernel, I wanted to move a Windows partition that had the system 32 ...
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