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Marc

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Marc

Pro-tip though - install the Windows bootloader on a different drive to Grub. Been doing that for years now with basically no issues.

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charlie :blobfoxcomputer:

@mdiluz I have Linux and Windows installed in separate drive. Does this also mean the Windows boot loader also installed in a different drive to Grub?

However, my grub was once overwritten by Windows update, I always use Windows Insider though

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Tical

@voyager @mdiluz I installed Windows first and the Linux after that as to not disturb Windows and WU still fucked grub and my fedora install.

Dual booting is sustainable between OSes that arent Windows. I wish it were different.

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Tical

@mdiluz This works until Windows update decides that every drive in your system is subject to its whims. Windows update borking my Fedora install and grub was one of the last straws that made me delete it altogether.

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slembcke

@mdiluz Yeah… easier to spend a few dozen monies to get a second drive.

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David Jaša

@mdiluz
One boot partition for each bootable system. The last missing bit then would be for grub to stop trying to guess kernel cli of other Linux systems in OS probe and chain load their proper bootloaders instead (state ~3 years ago when I fiddled with this last time)

CC @liskin

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Tomáš Janoušek
@djasa @mdiluz Well you don't need all that, you just need these system updates not to reset EFI vars. Which, to be fair, they usually don't, they merely change the boot order, if anything. And that can be locked in the System Setup...

But then you get issues like ThinkPad BIOS/UEFI firmware update completely wiping the boot entries. Fortunately they fixed it last year, even as far back as T470, possibly even further.

Still, bootable USB sticks are useful when you move the disk from one laptop to another, or when they come and swap your motherboard.
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