minus-squaredarkan15@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Easy Dual Boot Method to Give Family Offramp from Windowslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days agoIf you go with dual booting this is what worked for me when I have done dual boot, so windows doesn’t mess with boot options: Window have to be installed first or already there. With a Live ISO use a tool like gparted and shrink windows main partition from the right. During installation, choose custom partitioning to manage the free space Make a secondary /boot/efi partition so linux boot is installed there. Make the / root partition for linux and optional make a partition for /home. Finish the installation. Boot into UEFI and change boot order to that secondary /boot/efi. Reboot and profit. That way grub will be running from the secondary /boot/efi, and it will detect and add windows and the primary /boot/efi Windows only sees and care about the first /boot/efi and will only mess with that, so even if it does change something it doesn’t matter. linkfedilink
If you go with dual booting this is what worked for me when I have done dual boot, so windows doesn’t mess with boot options:
/boot/efipartition so linux boot is installed there./boot/efi.That way grub will be running from the secondary
/boot/efi, and it will detect and add windows and the primary/boot/efiWindows only sees and care about the first
/boot/efiand will only mess with that, so even if it does change something it doesn’t matter.