Is dual booting feasible?I want to dual boot Linux and windows HOWEVER I will use two separate physical drives instead of a single partitioned drive.I want to know if there are any problems I could run into with this setup.I don't mind going into BIOS and switching the boot order every time I need to swap OS.
You could run into the problem where Windows says fuck you and replaces your bootloader, preventing you from booting into anything but Windows.
>>109339495i have windows 7 on one drive and fedora (nobara) on a separate nvme drive. I have the nobara drive as my default boot drive and then manually select the windows one occasionally when i want to boot that one. no issues, they both access the same internal mass storage hard drives for movies/etc
>>109339507That only happens during installation or when you use a single drive
>>109339495I've always done it and had no issues. Heard some people do. Use Linux as the default boot and use grub to change to windows when needed
>>109339495Windows has multiple bugs that destroy multiple OSs including Windows itself and even BIOS/UEFI. I will never install that shit on my PC. Use Linux and then QEMU to run Windows. You can use Virtual Machine Manager to run QEMU easily.
>>109339495>Is dual booting feasible?Absolutely.>I want to dual boot Linux and windows HOWEVER I will use two separate physical drives instead of a single partitioned drive.It doesn't matter what you do, it matters that you do it right and don't let the distro decide bad configurations that cause Linux undermine windows which will mean that Windows has to fix that and boom you won't be able to boot in Linux.>I want to know if there are any problems I could run into with this setup.Many problems can happen if you do it wrong.Both operating systems need to have their own EFI partition don't let them share it that's what distros do and cause issues and both Windows and linux use different time system so you have to ensure one of them uses the other's time system. Local time (Windows) vs RTC (Linux). But that's about it.>I don't mind going into BIOS and switching the boot order every time I need to swap OS.Well then you can run more distros than usual.Some don't allow grub edits and won't look for a windows installation.I hope by BIOS you mean UEFI if you use legacy boot that's unsupported on Windows.
>>109339626>Windows has multiple bugs that destroy multiple OSs including Windows itself and even BIOS/UEFI.That head-canon you invented is nonsense, I suggest you to lurk more, it's never enough with you people.
>>109339675(me)Here is another thing I want to add.You can have securedualboot, as long as the distro supports secureboot and you have hardware that isn't 'out of tree' i.e something like nvidia drivers. I have a dual boot of Windows and Fedora Kinoite for when I run in edge cases and see to the progress on the linux """desktop""". It's not a bad thing to learn about things that ultimate don't matter, this will effectively come in handy to learn about things that do matter later on.
>>109339495I have that exact setup. I'm dual booting windows and cachyos and cachyos installed some bootloader that automatically recognized windows so I set the bios to boot from the cachyos disk and then choose which system I want to boot into from that bootloader menu.
>>109339694Bugs in Windows feature updates have overwritten or destroyed bootloaders (such as GRUB), rendering dual-boot Linux and macOS installations completely unbootable. Flawed Windows updates (such as the 2018 KB4093112 update and various cumulative updates) have caused infinite boot loops, BSODs, and registry corruption, effectively bricking the Windows installation. Windows Update has delivered faulty BIOS and firmware updates that permanently bricked motherboards. Additionally, Windows kernel vulnerabilities allowing SPI flash access have been exploited to overwrite, corrupt, and destroy UEFI firmware.Anons like you, not knowing anything about anything, could just SFTU instead of humiliating yourselves. "Windows has multiple bugs that destroy multiple OSs including Windows itself and even BIOS/UEFI." is 100% true and your emotions will never change it.
From Linux it's super easy, just pick the right drive at install. Not any different from a regular install. That said I haven't updated my Windows drive since then, and it's not connected to internet. I don't know if it's possible for a Windows update to replace Grub or trash a Linux partition
just unplug all other disks during OS installation to prevent ESP merging.
>>109340025>just unplug all other disks during OS installation to prevent ESP merging.Thi makes sense if you installed Linux first.If you install Linux after Windows has been installed, Linux installers using custom options typically have an option to set /boot/efi to a custom partition. This is why it HAS to be a custom installation.
