Ken: Thanks for your reply. I did not take all the precautions such as taking an image of the existing drive, but I pretty much did as you recommended. I used the Windows utility to shrink the C: partition.
The Linux Mint installer does not offer a option to have the two OSes coexist, it's take the whole disk for Linux Mint or "Something else". I choose the something else and repartitioned the free space into 10 GB for / , 4GB for swap, 400+ GB for /home and install. At the conclusion of installing, when I reboot into the operating system, no grub menu, just boots into Windows. I also tried running sudo grub-install from a xterm after installing but before rebooting, but I can't get that to run successfully. I've tried mounting the / partition (sda6) on /mnt and chroot /mnt, etc., still no luck with grub-install. Again, thanks very much for the time that you took to try to help me. Wayne I take the something else and point On 05/15/2015 03:44 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Brian Martin wrote: >> On 05/15/2015 02:03 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: >> >>> The situation is that my brother bought a new laptop with Windows 8.1. >>> He used to have a laptop (that was stolen a few days ago) that I had set >>> up dual boot for him. That machine was a legacy (non EUFI) machine. I >>> have tried several times and different combinations with this new >>> machine, EUFI enabled and then disabled, using some directions I googled >>> up. Each time after an install, the machine boots right into Windows >>> with no option to select another OS. >>> >>> I was hoping someone with this experience and knowledge would be at the >>> clinic this Sunday. >> This is a non-trivial exercise, though certainly do-able. I've done it >> numerous times. >> >> First you'll have to figure out how to boot from another source, usually >> through a F12/F11/Fsomething-else key, or by changing the BIOS to boot >> preferentially off of a DVD or similar storage. >> >> Once you've mastered that, I recommend booting a Linux rescue system of >> some sort and taking an image of the existing drive, in case you trash >> your current one. >> >> Then assuming they've allocated all the disk space for the Windows >> system, you'll need to make some disk space by reducing the size of the >> existing partitions. >> >> Now you'll be able to go through a normal Linux installation into the >> available space. At that point it should install its own boot loader >> which, in my experience, will also detect the Windows partition and add >> a menu entry for it. Then some clean-up (put the BIOS back if you >> changed it, set your default boot to Windows if that's your brother's >> preference, etc.) and you're pretty much done. >> >> That's the general approach I use. Others may use a different approach. >> I think tapping the Linux Clinic folks for the finer detail is a great >> idea. Good luck. >> >> > Wayne, > > I would take a different approach. I would load the system with the > Linux distribution of your choice and use the Virtual Machine Manager, > powered by libvirt and load your windows into that. That way when > it blue screens you still have a system that is up. > > Ken Stephens > CAD 2 CAM > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
