My laptop dual boots Windows 8 and Ubuntu (I had Windows 7 previously so I know that this can also work with that OS).
I have GRUB as the boot manager, and Window 8 is just another entry in my Grub menu. The bad news is that I installed Windows *after* I already had Linux on my laptop andI had set UEFI to boot in Legacy mode first, which then runs Grub. I also had to disable the secure boot option. In my case it was made easier because I have 3 SSDs in my laptop, I could give each OS it's own dedicated drive, with a data drive (sort of shared, I can read ext4 from windows but writing I don't trust). When installing Windows, you have to set that disk as the primary boot device in the UEFI interface (or BIOS on an older machine). Once installed you can make your Linux disk the boot device and then use grub (it should autodetect and add the Windows instance) to boot them both. I am pretty sure that Grub and Linux can boot from UEFI, but I have never had to actually try this. There is some ubuntu documentation here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI So this might help to get you started with Mint. I am not a big fan of dual booting, especially on a single hard drive. I have found that people who "need" Windows rarely if ever bother to reboot into Linux (or any other OS for that matter), so having the dual boot configuration is usually just adding needless complexity IMO. Generally Virtualbox usually meets the needs of someone who wants to use the other OS without the hassle of maintaining a dual boot configuration. On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Geekus Villagius <[email protected]>wrote: > On the long weekend, I tried to run Linux Mint 14 on laptop (not mine) > from a live CD. I met with success after several attempts to get into the > 'BIOS' and then switching from UEFI to legacy BIOS. > Mint runs well on the system. > Windows (which the laptop owner needs for now) will not run unless the > system has UEFI boot enabled. In legacy mode there is an "Operating System > not found" error. > > Any suggestions for creating a successful dual-boot setup? Can booting > Windoze 7 be enabled after by some minor Grub magic, or would another > distro with a UEFI key be an available option? > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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