Questions tagged [dual-boot]
Dual-boot is the process of having two (or more) operating systems installed on a computer, allowing one to be chosen during the boot process.
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Installing Arch on an external SSD without using a USB stick to boot
I want to install Arch Linux on an external SSD without using a USB stick to boot.
How can I do that?
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How to get out of the Linux/Windows dualboot setup disaster [closed]
I have a two-drive PC that originally came with Windows 11 preinstalled. As I wanted to use linux for projects/research I decided to install omarchy on the second drive.
During Omarchy installation ...
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How to add second boot option
Im currently running Debian 12, and I want to be able to have Kali Linux as a second option in GRUB. I've already installed the Kali Linux OS (rolling) using debootstrap (sudo debootstrap kali-rolling ...
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How to set up dual boot with Pop!_OS and Arch Linux on encrypted partitions?
I currently have Pop!_OS 22.04 installed on an unencrypted ext4 partition. I want to set up a dual boot system where both Pop!_OS and Arch Linux use encrypted partitions.
Current setup:
nvme0n1p1: ...
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Fedora EFI boot entry absent on HP Victus (dual-boot with Windows 11)
I installed Fedora Workstation 42 alongside Windows 11 on my HP Victus 15 (fb3003AX), but Fedora never appears in the bootable devices menu.
Laptop model: HP Victus 15 (fb3003AX)
OS: Windows 11 + ...
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How to install a second GNU/Linux in dual boot, with the first distribution already installed and full-disk encrypted with LUKS?
This is not a duplicate of How to install two GNU/Linux in dual boot with one under LUKS and the other not?, since it assumes newly installing both distributions.
I have a Linux distribution installed ...
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Arch Linux dual boot: mount error and boot failure following upgrade
I was properly installing Arch and doing dual boot.
The error happened not only once, possibly because some kernel module needs to be loaded first before the system can mount the NTFS file system? Is ...
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explanation of all Linux's /boot/efi .efi files
In a simple install of Redhat from rhel-8.10-x86_64-dvd.iso I have this
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi
/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/mmx64.efi
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No Wi-Fi signals are showing up on Debian 12 + KDE Plasma (Windows 11 Dual Boot)
The ethernet works fine and everything else seems fine. I have disabled fast boot from Windows 11. I know it's not a hardware issue because my Wi-Fi card (Intel) works on Windows and worked on a ...
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GRUB disappears from UEFI boot entries after booting Windows (Ubuntu + Windows dual boot)
Every time I boot into Windows (11/10) on my dual-boot system, the GRUB entry vanishes from the UEFI boot menu. I reinstall GRUB from a live Kali USB, and the entry comes back. Then I reboot into ...
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Can't access bios after installing Arch Linux with dual boot
I successfully installed arch, but my bios menu broke. Before the installation when I would press F2 or F12 on boot I would get the boot menu, now I just get a black screen. The default boot is ...
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Can't boot Ubuntu from transferred dual-boot drive
I recently built myself a new computer, and I managed to extract the old HDD and SSD and put them into my new computer.
When I changed the BIOS settings to boot into Linux, it showed a correct grub ...
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Grub cannot find any of my rhel 9 kernel
I'm using a red hat developer subscription, so no official support from red hat.
I have a rhel 9.6 installed to a 2TB nvme SSD, whose partitions are as follows:
1 : 600MB (EFI)
2 : 1GB (forget what ...
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How to install POP OS dual boot with windows on separate drive without erasing data of other drive?
I have windows 11 on 250gb ssd and a 500gb empty hard drive. I want to install POP!os on one of the partition of this Hard drive and let the windows be on the ssd. So while partitioning space to ...
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UEFI boot entry regenerates with malformed path ‘File(.䍒)’ causing double GRUB menu
I have Windows 10 pro and Ubuntu 24.04 installed on HDD and SSD respectively in same HP laptop. When booting I am getting 2 GRUB menu. First a blue + white screen, and later the normal ubuntu grub ...
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