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

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

With respect to the original problem, this response is moot. On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 18:50:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > If you want to boot A, just select it from the menu presented by B's > > grub. > > > > When you boot and run A, you can update-grub¹ and that will scan > > and see both systems, w

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Sun 13 Feb 2022 at 19:26:51 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > > would have its grub.cfg kept u

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Mon 14 Feb 2022 at 10:18:13 (+1100), David wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > TLDR: > On the topic of grub automatic configuration > 1) suggestions how to avoid it > 2) why I prefer to do that > > Disclaimer: co

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 05:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: TLDR: On the topic of grub automatic configuration 1) suggestions how to avoid it 2) why I prefer to do that Disclaimer: contains generalisations and lacks full justifications of points made. Th

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > would have its grub.cfg kept up-to-date, but would never touch the > MBR by running grub-install. Ano

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

Hi David, yes, that is what I thought, would be working. But sadly did not. I expected, after using update-grub, that os-prober would detect both partitions with the menu.lst or grub.cfg inside and create two entries in the boot menu. However, this did not work, only one (the last installation,

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 10:04:43 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as followed: >

Re: "Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.

Re: "Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

On 10/09/2007 08:36 AM, Kent West wrote: > Sid Arth wrote: >> Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from >> the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? >> >> I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you >> want to load, and if yo

Re: "Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.

Re: "Dual Booting" linux thin client or windows

Sid Arth wrote: Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.

Re: Dual-booting with GRUB, md, and hardware RAID

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:23:57PM -0700, Michael Armida wrote: > I am having a problem with the Debian installer whereby I can't get my > machine to find the GRUB loader. This is probably a problem with my > motherboard (asus m2n sli deluxe), and not so much the installer per se, > but please

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

On 10/10/05, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > > >Even I believe this will work, but b

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02:01AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h--

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02:01AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > >Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. > > > >--w.h-- > > > > Possible bu

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:01:56AM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > > >Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows > > >2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and > >

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > >Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. > > > >--w.h-- > > > > Possible but not s

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h-- Possible but not simple. E.g. you must manually set the drive and Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) pat

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Roy Pluschke wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- exist

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Yes, on the same disk. I have to somehow reduce the current partition sizes and add a new partition for windows. I am also concerned that the windows installation will then screw things up (overwrite the MBR). Don´t know if it´s suitable for you but I am happy with WIN2k running under qemu (ht

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > >Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows > >2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and > >then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system > >

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won'

Re: dual booting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 June 2003 04:41 am, Armin Catovic wrote: > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows > XP Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I > start my PC so I can select between XP

Re: dual booting

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:41:43PM +1000, Armin Catovic wrote: > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows > XP Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I > start my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debian. What I did

Re: dual booting

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:41, Armin Catovic wrote: > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP > Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I start > my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debian. So what are you asking?

Re: dual booting

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:41:43 +1000 "Armin Catovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows > XP Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I > start my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debi

Re: dual booting

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:41, Armin Catovic wrote: > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP > Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I start > my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debian. Add an entry in /etc/li

Re: dual booting

On (26/06/03 22:41), Armin Catovic wrote: > From: "Armin Catovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dual booting > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 22:41:43 +1000 > > Hi, > Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP > Professional with SP1. I would like

Re: dual booting

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:03:10AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > MS-DOS and the Win95/98/ME systems need to be on what they think is C:, > which would mean the first drive that has a filesystem they can read > (FAT, VFAT, FAT32,) and preferably the first primary partition of the > first physical dr

Re: dual-booting with debian

--- Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Charles Thomas Harris [Sun, Oct 27 2002, > 01:28:24PM]: > > like to dual boot the machine with debian. The > linux boxes I > > maintain are devoted to linux, so I'm not too > familiar with dual > > booting. Where can I find the necessar

Re: dual-booting with debian

#include * Charles Thomas Harris [Sun, Oct 27 2002, 01:28:24PM]: > like to dual boot the machine with debian. The linux boxes I > maintain are devoted to linux, so I'm not too familiar with dual > booting. Where can I find the necessary documentation for this task? > > I appreciate any help you

Re: dual-booting with debian

Matt wrote: > I have done this on several machines. > > By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start from > scratch. > > Then, install w2k. Do not use the whole drive though, but how big a > partition to make, will be dependant on how big your drive is and what you > will b

RE: dual-booting with debian

broadfoot [mailto:ibroadfo@;cis.strath.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 12:10 PM To: Joyce, Matthew Cc: 'Greg C. Madden'; debian-user Subject: Re: dual-booting with debian > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > >>I have done this on several machines. >> >&

Re: dual-booting with debian

--- Charles Thomas Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I currently use redhat linux, but I am interested in trying debian > linux. > I am a graduate student and have recently purchased a laptop with > Windows 2000, which I need for research applications. However, I > would > like to dual boot the

Re: dual-booting with debian

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I have done this on several machines. By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start from scratch. This is a good aproach except when all you have is a recovery disk. I don't kow how many..but.. all the laptops I looked

RE: dual-booting with debian

Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 11:01 AM To: debian-user Subject: RE: dual-booting with debian On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have done this on several machines. > > By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start > from scratch. This is a go

RE: dual-booting with debian

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 14:24, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I have done this on several machines. > > By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start from > scratch. This is a good aproach except when all you have is a recovery disk. I don't kow how many..but.. all the laptops I loo

RE: dual-booting with debian

I have done this on several machines. By far the easiest is to erase everything from the machine and start from scratch. Then, install w2k. Do not use the whole drive though, but how big a partition to make, will be dependant on how big your drive is and what you will be using the two OSs for.

Re: dual-booting with debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 27 October 2002 6:28 pm, Charles Thomas Harris wrote: > I currently use redhat linux, but I am interested in trying debian linux. > I am a graduate student and have recently purchased a laptop with > Windows 2000, which I need for research ap

Re: dual booting?

On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 19:00, ab.boonstra wrote: > Where would I go about info on installing Debian on my HD along side > WindowsME? > I have a Pentium3 766mh, 192Ram, 20GigHD. ( Not partitioned ) Now is the 20 gig hd going to be for both debian and ME? Cause if it is all you need to do is partit

Re: Dual booting Debian and MacOS (was )

On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 12:57:57AM -0500, disco No disco wrote: > hello - If I am using a Mac and OS 9.0.4 can I switch between my current OS > and yours or is it one ot the other? yes it is possible to dual boot your machine between MacOS and Debian, the way you accomplish this varies based on wh

Re: Dual booting Win2k/deb2.2

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rob wrote: > Hello guys, this is my first time using this mail-user list. I am almost > finished building my new PC(waiting on a couple parts), and once its done I > will be dual booting win2000/deb. ick. heresy. > A) How can I install these OS's so that I can have a bootl

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

Fist you need to boot up under linux, then using your favorite text editor (I like vi) open up your /etc/lilo.conf file. delete the line that says 'delay=' replace it with the word 'prompt' Then move to the end of the file, and add these lines: other=/dev/hda table=/dev/hda label=95 If you'r

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

AJ wrote: ... >Is it possible that when i turn on my computer i get a 'BOOT:' prompt >and i can type either: 'win' for windows or 'linux' for linux using >Lilo? if i can.. can someone give me an example of there lilo.conf file Here's a sample /etc/lilo.conf that allows booting from a choice

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

Ok, this is my lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = MS table = /dev/hda

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

Hi Tristan Day ; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to d

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 02:36:56PM -, Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still want to dual-boot fr