>From my experience dual booting Windows 10 is a pain. Wasn't sure what I wad doing and over writing Windows 10 with Linux Mint.
Easy but latest version of Windows 10 which has already has Linux Ubuntu on it. Using a stick set up Rufus and Linux Mint should work. Need large USB stick. Windows 7 easy to to dual boot. On 26/05/2017 6:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Has any one installed windows 10 and Linux on their computer with uefi > > > > My searches on the internet generally pick up videos of old computers with > bios instead of uefi. > > From what I can find, I need to have secure boot disabled - think mine is > but might have read it wrong. > > Got Linux install on usb stick and ran it but on reboot installs into > windows 10 and trying easybcd > > says it doesn't support with message > > "EasyBCD has detected that your machine is currently booting in EFI mode. > Due to limitations set by Microsoft, many of EasyBCDs multi-booting > features cannot be used in EFI mode and have been disabled. Pressing the > "help key" gave me three options (reinstall, VMware, and below) > > > Option 3: Use GRUB2 EFI as your main boot manager > > EasyBCD controls the Windows boot menu, and has traditionally been used as > the primary boot manager. With EasyBCD, it is possible to add entries for > Linux and older versions of Windows to the top-level BCD menu seen when > your machine first boots. Since the Windows boot manager running in UEFI > mode does not support the loading of legacy and non-Microsoft operating > systems, another option is possible. > > When installing Linux or any other 3rd party OS that ships with its own > bootloader, instead of choosing to install GRUB to the bootsector as is > traditionally done when opting to use EasyBCD to control your boot menu, > choose to install GRUB to the MBR (or disk, in this case) and make it the > main bootloader for your PC. You can add the Windows boot menu to the GRUB2 > EFI boot menu – in this case, you’ll see GRUB’s boot menu when your PC > starts, and from there you can choose Windows. You can still use EasyBCD to > control the Windows boot menu and set up multi-boots and re-configure > Vista+ entries in the BCD boot menu, but with the GRUB2 EFI menu loading > first, you can use that to boot into Linux and to chainload NTLDR to boot > into Windows 9x. > > > > Question: Has any one tried this? Does this corrupt your windows 10 boot > up? Past experience has told me in mbr days to never overwrite the windows > boot loader, has the process gone the opposite way? > > > > thanks for any advice you can give. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > >
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