Richard Owlett <rcowl...@cloud85.net> writes: > I will be setting up a Windows laptop to dual boot Debian. > If the machine has legacy BIOS, no problem as I've done that before. > > If it is a UEFI machine (possibly with secure boot, what should I be > reading.
I did this last fall, I may still have notes with links somewhere. I think I did resize the EFI and recovery and the main Windows partitions to have enough space for Linux system and boot files on the respective partitions. I had no issues with the Debian installation even though it was my first UEFI machine. My desktop upgrade this winter was second UEFI experience and there things were more complicated since I converted it from BIOS boot to UEFI boot and it has Windows 10 and Debian and Arch. Windows didn't actually survive the changes in HW, no problems with the actual conversion though. As for secure boot, I tried it with the laptop and it worked fine, except Linux (or at least Debian 11) doesn't yet support hibernation with secure boot so I turned secure boot off.
