On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:01:09 +0100 Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote:
> On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote: > > > > I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a > > pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a > > sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only software, > > and the former for using public wi-fi. > > > > > but ... > (iii) Dual booting with Windows (this has W8.1) does seem, generally, > to be problematic; apparently W8 is thought to revert bootloader > configurations to 'Windows only' - as a prudent security measure - > but with the result that Debian is invisible to bootloader (whether > grub or not) at each restart. (Nothing I looked at explained how > Ubuntu gets around that, if it does - or even if that is actually the > problem.) I searched quite a lot for more details about Debian, even > Linux generally, dual-booting with W8.1, but the only returns I found > were describing the difficulties. I thought there was a recent > thread here, as well, talking about the problems, but my searching > has failed to pick it up so far, though we've an archive of deleted > messages so I'll have a look through those. > > That's what I thought, so I couldn't be bothered trying. The BIOS in my G1 has a 'legacy boot enable' switch, and I was expecting to need to flip this between each boot of Linux or Windows, but in fact it isn't necessary, it can be left enabled. From a cold boot (and Windows now has various tricks to speed up boot that mean you need to say 'shutdown to power off' very firmly) with the external drive installed I get a boot options screen for a few seconds and one of the boot options is boot device, which will allow choice between Win8 and external drive. I was influenced by the fact that I have a netbook with a very small and slow SSD, which is ludicrously expensive to upgrade, so I had the external hard drive installation already. If I hadn't, I might have had a go at the dual boot. -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140824185818.234e4...@jresid.jretrading.com
