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Dual Booting: How in god's name?! (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by blakeus12@hexbear.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have one drive, 1tb with Pop_OS, and another, 500 on to which i want to install windows. (I know, I dont like it either but I want to play VR games via link cable cause ALVR is really mid) So, I put the ISO on a drive with ventoy, booted it up, got it all going. started to install windows on the empty drive. So, after the five steps it kicks me out of the installer and now, I can't acess the second drive. Even through moving the boot order on BIOS, it always loads me into pop os. The only time it ever didn't do this is one time where it seemingly randomly gave me boot options, two of which were Pop_OS and one was "windows boot manager", which when selected turned off my computer and promptly i booted right back into Pop_OS. Can anyone provide some advice? TIA.

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[–] raven@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

rat-salute-2

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

at this point i am considering uninstalling Pop and getting win10 first because linux actually has sensible ways to dual boot even on the same drive. that's probably what i'll have to do.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I swore off dual booting a couple years ago, but I do recall the order in which I installed the OS' did matter. So it's worth a shot.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

i have done that successfully at the cost of my sleep schedule lmao.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

do i need to install the grub bootloader? because no matter what i do holding shift doesn't do anything. i am on windows reinstall number 3 now

[–] raven@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently I'm wrong and Pop_Os uses systemD-boot not GRUB, which is surprising to me because unless things have changed I've always thought of systemD-boot as being underpowered for a lot of use cases.

If I'm reading the wiki correctly here, I think it's saying systemd-boot cannot launch windows because it's on another drive? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Boot_from_another_disk

But on the other hand it's interesting that it's able to "see" the windows partition so I might be completely wrong.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

this is indeed, pretty damn weird. I'm going to go with uninstalling pop os, and getting windows first on the smaller drive, then getting either KDE Neon or Linux Mint on the bigger one. kinda sucks, i wish i couldve just installed but it doesn't seem like there is anything i can do. thank you so much for the help, comrade. rat-salute