[NCLUG] Dual Booting Linux on a laptop with UEFI

[Garrett Burton]

Rather than dual booting, I solve this problem at work by running Linux as a virtual machine on my Windows box using Oracle VirtualBox.  You give up a little performance and karma on the Linux side of things, but most Microsoft Office applications are now cloud based and I've seen no indication that they benefit from additional cores.VirtualBox Guest Additions for Linux is included in the Windows installer--this is not clear from the documentation. You have to hunt around a bit in the installation directory to install them to your Linux instance, but mouse integration is seamless and the clipboard can be setup for bidirectional use.  You can share folders between systems and this makes things feel fully integrated.Setting the network to NAT will get you out to the world.  3d video acceleration is good enough to run Blender3d if your graphics card can handle it.I assign half of the cores and RAM to the virtual machine and run CentOS with KDE side-by-side with Windows without the hassle of dual booting.  A 30GB partition is usually enough for most applications and fixed length rather than dynamic allocation seems to be better in terms of speed on Windows hosts.Presently I'm re-engineering a complex multi-platform environment and having both operating systems available simultaneously makes my life much easier.  I run a dual headed system and keep Windows on my left monitor and Linux on the right monitor.                                                                                                                                                                    Sent From My Samsung Galaxy Tab® S


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-------- Original message --------From: "David E. Auter" <david.auter at ca-quartercircle.com> Date: 1/9/20  09:53  (GMT-07:00) To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group <nclug at lists.nclug.org> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Dual Booting Linux on a laptop with UEFI Bob Proulx mentioned the problem may be caused by a move tosystemd-boot. It may, but I doubt this as Mint lags Ubuntu and at leastas of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS they were still using GRUB.Evelyn Mitchell mentioned switching to legacy BIOS. I don't believe thatis necessary anymore as the Ubuntu/Mint installers now support UEFI.One suggestion I saw from someone that encountered this issue was to runthe administrator prompt in Windows 10 and enter the command:bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efiThat solved the issue for them. Other links I found mentionedreinstalling GRUB. A number of forums I found mentioned this solution.On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:20:29AM -0700, Elizabeth M. wrote:> I have a friend who recently got a new laptop (a late 2019 HP Spectre> x360, running Windows 10) and she is trying to have it dual boot Linux> Mint alongside Windows 10. She has done the installation with a live> USB image, and it has the partition. However, it only ever boots into> Windows 10 - it doesn't present any option to boot into Linux Mint. We> think it's because the computer uses UEFI, but we aren't sure. Has> anyone had a similar problem they were able to solve?> > Thanks!> > Elizabeth> _______________________________________________> NCLUG mailing list       NCLUG at lists.nclug.org> > To unsubscribe, subscribe, or modify> your settings, go to:> http://lists.nclug.org/mailman/listinfo/nclug_______________________________________________NCLUG mailing list       NCLUG at lists.nclug.orgTo unsubscribe, subscribe, or modifyyour settings, go to:http://lists.nclug.org/mailman/listinfo/nclug