Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
On 6/30/25 17:36, David Christensen wrote: +1 for multi-boot via multiple drives. Mobile racks facilitate changing drives: https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/mobile-racks https://www.startech.com/en-us/hdd/m2-removable-pcie-n1 I should add -- only insert one bootable drive at a time. This

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread David Christensen
On 6/30/25 13:59, Van Snyder wrote: I'm working on an ASUS computer for a deceased colleague's widow. He had Fedora 28 on a HDD. I installed Debian 12 on an NVME drive. She also wanted Windoze 11 so I installed it on another NVME drive. The boot mode was set to "legacy" but the Windoze installe

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2025-06-30 14:46 (UTC-0700): > On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 17:26 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> Debian needs to be installed in UEFI mode for its Grub to be able to>> chain >> Win11's >> bootloader. > The netinst Debian 12 DVD I downloaded wouldn't boot in EFI mode. How > do I i

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 17:26 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Debian needs to be installed in UEFI mode for its Grub to be able to > chain Win11's > bootloader. The netinst Debian 12 DVD I downloaded wouldn't boot in EFI mode. How do I install Debian 12 in EFI mode. Can I change it after it's installed

Re: Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2025-06-30 13:59 (UTC-0700): > If I want to have dual boot, instead of telling the BIOS which > partition to boot, must I essentially start over with the Debian > install i EFI mode (if I can find an installer DVD that will boot EFI)? > I don't want to muck with the Fedora i

Dual booting problem

2025-06-30 Thread Van Snyder
I'm working on an ASUS computer for a deceased colleague's widow. He had Fedora 28 on a HDD. I installed Debian 12 on an NVME drive. She also wanted Windoze 11 so I installed it on another NVME drive. The boot mode was set to "legacy" but the Windoze installer DVD wouldn't even boot until it was