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Dualboot is evil, use only linux (programming.dev)

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[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

2 separate bootloader partitions. Grub launches the windows bootloader on a different partition so it isn't aware of anything other than itself. Then the 2nd bootloader actually launches windows. Don't try to share one partition or else windows will inevitably wind up clobbering the Linux loader.

[–] jason@discuss.online 2 points 1 month ago

This is the way. I just discovered this, but the lazy way. If I want windows, I mash f8 on startup to get the manual boot selection. I never start windows through grub (systemd-boot in my case). It has its own EFI partition.

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