Setup for dual operating systems on Linux and Windows
Setup for dual operating systems on Linux and Windows
Hello i was interested in dual booting windows and popos on my new build on two separate drives but all the tutorials i find show different things i was wondering if there was an easy way to dual boot the two without having to do any complicated command line stuff thanks in advance
Several Linux distributions can identify a Windows setup during their installation and quickly configure dual-booting, allowing you to toggle between the two at startup.
Installing on separate drives makes dual boot simple. While setting up, pick the storage device for Pop-overs. When starting the system, you can either launch BIOS and decide which drive to start first, or use GRUB. If you're worried about damaging Windows, disconnect the drive during installation. After setup, run grub-update to add Windows to the GRUB menu.
I set up Manjaro GNOME on a SATA disk and Windows 11 on an NVMe drive without any extra steps required.
Yes, there is an easy way to install Linux with dual boot. Assuming you have a single disk with a single volume dedicated to Windows (along with Recovery and Windows EFI volumes), shrink the C volume, leaving an unallocated volume of atleast 20GB or more. Now, boot into a Linux live boot, open the installation, select manual partitioning, and create two partitions: an EFI System Partition of size 512MiB with the mountpoint set as /boot/efi and a single ext4 or btrfs partition of the remaining size off 20GB(say) unallocated volume, with mountpoint set as / (yes, slash only, " / " stands for root ) or reserve around some amounts of storage for swap ( check below for more ). Now, about the swap volume: Assuming that you have over 16GB of RAM, swap isn't generally required, although, if you have a lesser amount of RAM or do processes that use a lot of RAM, yes, add in an extra swap volume. (Swapping could be costly for SSDs and also potentially wear them at a slightly faster rate). I have used my system with swap previously and found that swap usage in my Linux session is zero , why, because I have 16gigs or RAM, my workflow does not involve anything that uses over 12GB of RAM and I do not hibernate my system, I use sleep/standby. (Use a calculator for planning your partition, it really is helpful in planning partitions beforehand). So, assuming you have around 8GB of RAM, 20GB of unallocated space for linux, your partition via manual partitioning would be something like this: Partition type/ filesystem ------- Partition size ------ Mountpoint EFI System Partition-------------- 512 MiB ----------- /boot/efi swap---------------------------------- 4GB ---------------- ext4 partition------------------------ 15.5GB ------------ / ( Use a calculator!! ) More on swap space: Chapter 12. Getting started with swap Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal Need more help? Feel free to reply/dm My disk partition, by the way (I have am not using any swap space, explained above Edited February 15, 2022 by RottenKillSwitch