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| From | Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.mageia |
| Subject | Further Suggestions on Dual-Boot with Win10 solicited |
| Date | 2016-11-04 01:29 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nvgo9p$1rj$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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. 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. 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. -- UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer- friendly.
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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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