Dualboot_irl (Art by πππππππππππππππππ)
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38448230
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Ah yes, the classic dual-boot woes
The supposed update that fixed it (windows update) broke it worse than ever, took me quite awhile to figure it out.
If you're lucky, it's still on the disk and you just need to "repair" the bootloader.
If not, well, that traumatised Mr Incredible pastiche might be at least a circle of hell too pleasant.
You have backups, right?
There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition, and do anything with it, let alone delete it. No operating system does this.
Replacing the bootloader is of course much more likely, but the general rule is that if you can manage to install Linux, you probably can follow basic instructions to fix GRUB or whatever your bootloader is.
There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition
I knew that was true back in the day, but I haven't tried dual booting in a long, long time. Also, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft's current incarnation to "accidentally" decide that that "empty" partition would be great for virtual memory and the hibernation image.
Installing Linux is so simple nowadays that fixing the bootloader is a level higher now
To be fair, windows does save its license key on ROM. It writes to the read-only memory. So it could.
It always sucks dual booting in my experience. Itβs an exercise in balancing maintenance and disk space management between two operating systems. Youβre always likely patching if you actively switch between them.
I think itβs usually better to choose one and virtualize the other. Iβd rather choose Linux + Windows VM than the other way around.
Sadly VMs don't work with the Anti-Cheat rootkits, one of the only reasons I still have Windows
Yea, I figured thats why most people end up dual booting. Itβs not a judgment or anything.
FWIW, I get around this by either using Geforce Now to stream the game that uses it or simply not playing the game lol. Itβs not worth dealing with Windows for me.
My friends and I donβt usually play the kind of games that use Anti-Cheat so its not an issue.
The trick is to have a second EFI partition. One for windows to destroy, and one for linux to enjoy.
This should not happen unless you booted into windows and ran an update.
Ladies and gentleman we got em
Well, but you could update windows, then reboot but boot into linux. That means the windows update can't fully complete yet. Now if you start up your PC the next day and it boots into Windows by default, the update process will continue.
Same thing. You'd have to boot into windows at some point.
I have Linux and Windows on separate drives.
I that why I never relate to this issue? I've had a dual boot setup for years by now and have always been able to choose either windows or Linux at startup, but they are on separate drives
Me too, the windows drive is in the garage
*garBage
With super cheap SSDβs and motherboards with multiple m.2 slots, thereβs rarely an excuse not to have different drives anymore. Laptops might be an exception.
Some gaming laptops come with a second nvme slot. Mine does and I did exactly this. Was wayyy simpler.
Don't dual boot, flatten and rebuild.
"B-but my gaaaaaamez!!!"
Can that actually happen like this? If Windows killed the bootloader wouldn't that mean that you couldn't boot into Kubuntu either? Or can it somehow kill the bootloader when the PC is turned off?
ish. if your boot priority is set to windows first and it decides it needs to repair the bootloader it can wipe other oses from the boot order.
What definitely did happen to me is I booted into windows, shut down, on the next startup there was no more grub menu, just instant boot into windows. (Separate physical drives).
I constantly tell people the dangers of dual booting. They don't listen and then it breaks.
I constantly tell people the remedy of the dangers of dual booting, using a separate drive for Linux. They sometimes listen and then have a dual boot system that doesn't break.
Eh, Windows has broken grub before even if it's on a separate drive, some Windows update did that last year.
Grub had/has this issue every time windows does a cumulative monthly update. Systemd doesn't have this issue.
Separate ssd's lets go
While microsoft has admitted to bugs causing exactly this scenario. I personally have a stabe 6 months with dual-boot. And only updating cachos once a month or every two weeks has been fine. The server and rog ally exclusively runs linux.