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Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited

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On 11/03/2016 06:29 PM, Jim Beard wrote:
> For a brief period of time, I had Mageia 5 installed on sda1 and win10 on
> sdb, and could switch from one to the other by rebooting and selecting
> which to boot from in the UEFI Bios choices.
> I tried to get fancy, and get Grub 2 to present both choices on reboot.
> This too worked, briefly.  Then, I lost the ability to select and boot to
> Win10, followed by loss of ability to boot Mageia 5.
> I restored the Grub 2 bootloader, and it now works fine in booting Mageia
> 5, but the EFI partition that once held the Microsoft UEFI boot software
> now contains nothing but a path that leads to mageia/grub64.efi.

	You probably should have had just one EFI partition. Switching
boots though the BIOS is the wrong way to go.
	Have you tried running the grub-organizer?
>
> My belief I could simply reinstall Win10 if things went wrong has proved
> in error.  My attempts to install to /dev/sdb where Win10 had been
> installed fails, with one error message saying the partition is locked.
> I do not know how to "unlock" it, or how to force an install.  I have
> tried disconnecting the disk that has Mageia 5 and installing to Win10
> on /dev/sdb by itself, but too this continues to fail.

	Microsoft really hates anyone messing about, in case you had
not figured that out.
	Have you booted up a GParted and tried to look at the Windows 10
SSD?  You might be able to get past that lock.
>
> Next possibility:  Try to install Win10 under VirtualBox.  The first
> question is whether I should try to install virtualbox and then use a
> Win10 image available from Microsoft (about 4 GB, iso, which I have
> downloaded) or try to install from my Win10 install usb drive (usbstick).
>
> In the first case, I start up virtualbox, tell it to create a new OS, and
> point it to the iso image.  In the second case, I would start up
> virtualbox, tell it to create a new OS, and point to to the usb drive.
>
> Would virtualbox then install from the usb drive?  Or do I need a magic
> incantation to start things off?  How do I enter it, if I do?
>
> So far, I am leaning to using the Mageia virtual box packages and I think
> I need the following mageia rpm packages:
> virtualbox-
> virtualbox-kernel-
> vboxadditions-kernel-
> virtualbox-guest-additions-
> plus virtualbox-extensions available only from the virtualbox website.
>
> I think all but virtualbox-guest-additions- should be installed before
> trying to create the Win10 virtual machine, and the virtualbox-guest-
> additions installed afterward.  Right?
>
> Has anyone done this, or succeeded with a different method?
> Does the above sound right?  Have I overlooked something?
>
> Where should I put the new virtual Win10? I am inclined to put it in the
> ext4 partition I intend to use for Mageia 6 for the moment, and then move
> it elsewhere if it works.  I understand this is possible.  Correct?
>
> I am dithering as usual when I really do not know what I am doing, or
> should be doing.  Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Cheers!
>
> jim b.
>

	Wish I could offer more than suggestions but since I won't have Windows 
10 for an indefinite time to mess around with that is all I
can do.

	bliss

-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 01:29 +0000
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-03 19:51 -0700
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited dlbendigo  <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2016-11-04 16:07 +1100
      Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 15:21 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 14:11 +0000
      Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-04 07:28 -0700
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-04 04:57 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-04 15:45 +0000
  Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> - 2016-11-05 18:46 +0000
    Re: Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2016-11-05 20:25 +0000

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