Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

Richard Owlett 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 s

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 09:09:19 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Thanks for a quick reply. > > On 04/30/2022 07:23 AM, Christian Britz wrote: > > Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of > > course it is possible the other way round. > > My post evidently could have been

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

> > > https://uefi.org/specifications > current is UEFI Specification Version 2.9 (March 2021) > > https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_9_2021_03_18.pdf > although i still read > https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_A_Feb14.pdf > when it comes to di

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

Hi, i am using - and recommending - refind Am 30.04.2022 um 13:50 schrieb Richard Owlett: > 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 wi

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 10:54 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/30/2022 09:01 AM, IL Ka wrote: > > this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one > > for Windows and one for Linux. > > Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. > > If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: > >

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

Hi, i have to add some technical nitpicking for the archives: IL Ka wrote: > I am not aware of any document, but here is how UEFI boot works https://uefi.org/specifications current is UEFI Specification Version 2.9 (March 2021) https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_9_202

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

I am not aware of any document, but here is how UEFI boot works: Harddrive is GPT-labeled and it has a partition with a special EFI flag. The partition is formatted as Fat32. Firmware (people tend to call it BIOS) contains configuration in non-volatile memory. This configuration consists of paths

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:09:19AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thanks for a quick reply. > > On 04/30/2022 07:23 AM, Christian Britz wrote: > > Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of > > course it is possible the other way round. > > My post evidently could have b

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

On 04/30/2022 09:01 AM, IL Ka wrote: this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one for Windows and one for Linux. Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot Following links from there suggests I

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

Thanks for a quick reply. On 04/30/2022 07:23 AM, Christian Britz wrote: Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of course it is possible the other way round. My post evidently could have been clearer. My friend's laptop will be purchased with Windows pre-installed. I

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one for Windows and one for Linux. Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 3:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be setting u

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of course it is possible the other way round. The Debian boot manager can be configured to respect the Windows installation, the Windows boot manager does not know anything about other operating systems, so you should leave that to D

Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

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. TIA