Hello there,
I just want to buy a new gaming system, laptop, because I want to be mobile. There is only one game I cant give up that is league of legends. So I’m searching a manufactor, which can handle dual boot perfectly. I mean everytime I boot into windows and want to reboot into linux again, so my entry is gone (refind, systems and grub). Maybe there is a brand which separate two OS Hardware wise or has a BIOS espacially for such a case?
Why not buy/use another drive and install Windows on that? Generally, you shouldn’t have a problem with dual-booting on separate drives. You would probably need an external drive since you want a laptop, but they’re pretty small these days.
Not true. Many laptops especially ThinkPad have a secondary M.2 slot.
Ah, cool. Might be a good option for OP, then.
Agreed. Windows updates will very likely break your single-drive dual-boot at some point. So, use two different drives and use your bios/efi to choose which one to boot.
Edit: check out https://hackaday.com/2021/11/30/linux-fu-the-ultimate-dual-boot-laptop/
Edit 2: Framework 16 looks like it would meet your needs. It has two M.2 sockets for drives. https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040
I have two separate drives
So use one for Windows and one for Linux. Problem solved, IMO.
No, Windows still erases my linux entry and that get me on nerve. It bypass my refind boot manager and boots directly into Windows. I have to remove Windows drive to boot into refind again
I use refind also, there should be a setting somewhere to let refind scan entries from other EFI partitions. I have that setup and just created a second EFI partition for my Linux setup, so that Windows has no idea Linux even exists. I even have everything running off of the same drive (my laptop only has one nvme slot) and I haven’t had any issues.
I am unfamiliar with refind, but from my experience with systemd & grub dual boot, if you do not change your boot order in bios, there is a high chance that the windows boot manager will brick your Linux one, even across drives. My advice for dual booting is to ditch the convenience of using one boot manager. But once again, this may not be an issue you have.
Even when you change the boot order in the BIOS?
Yes! Everytime my UEFI (sorry previous posters: I have UEFI) set my boot order to Windows Boot manager after booting into Windows. Why is Windows so penetrant?
Yeah, I don’t think that’s supposed to happen. I’ve never heard of that before, but I can see that people on Windows have reported it happening, like this Microsoft help question; you may want to check that (and similar questions) out?
Sorry I can’t help more. I hope you find a solution soon.
No Problem! Thank you anyway
I have a laptop and never had your issue. Does your Linux partition MOUNT the boot partition as /boot/EFI?
Your best bet is a secondary M2 slot, there are some laptops that allow for that. You install windows on the first, main ssd. Then you DISABLE that ssd (or you unplug it intenrally), you install linux on the second ssd, and then you enable back the first one. Then you can select using F12 during boot which ssd you want to boot from, by default it’d be windows.
I see you’re from Germany. Well, Tuxedo computers have many laptop models with two ssds in it.
if you get a coreboot compatible laptop you can burn GRUB into your firmware so that it can’t ever be destroyed by windows.
Then you can boot into linux by having GRUB load the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file in your linux FS, or load windows by chainloading into another payload in firmware (e.g. SeaBIOS) that can load windows.
This is kinda advanced though, and there is a big limitation in that you can only run BIOS (not UEFI) because EDK2, which is the only coreboot payload that can do UEFI can’t be chainloaded into from grub
Gang you gotta edit your fstabs properly and also turn os prober on probably. But if that’s too much then just install a Linux distro on an external drive already
I never had problem with dual boot on any laptop on uefi.Main problem was windows which on update was changing efi partition so I disabled autoupdates,disabled secure boot,and disabled bitlocker then u will be fine and grub gonna work
Can’t disable secure boot caus of anti cheat rootkit
Still not problem https://github.com/SamuelTulach/SecureFakePkg
Yeah dunno if the anti cheat will detect or falsely interprete something and I will get banned
