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Lammy 2 days ago

The BitLocker thing? I turned off the TPM and “““Secure””” Boot so it shouldn't do that.

estimator7292 2 days ago | parent [-]

Windows still likes to occasionally clobber your EFI entries and wipe out grub if it sees it.

jaredhallen 2 days ago | parent [-]

You can use the windows boot loader to boot other operating systems. I guess there's no guarantee an update won't remove it from the menu, though. A lot of systems have a boot menu built into UEFI these days, too, which will show you all the bootable partitions on the system.

Lammy 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm using rEFInd (because it's pretty!) and have the UEFI executable priority set, so as long as Windows doesn't reformat my ESP I should be fine. Or if it does I at least know how to fix it. Within FreeBSD it's a simple `mount -t msdosfs`, and shoutout to this utility for the Windows side of things: https://github.com/franzageek/WinEFIMounter

The one annoyance was that the Windows installer makes a puny 100MiB ESP by default, which would actually be enough for everything I have on there at the moment, but it felt small so I bumped it up to 1G before installing the second OS.

fuzzfactor 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I know the NT bootloaders would chainload Linux under BIOS, but have never seen a successful technique using UEFI.

Is there an easy-to-understand tutorial?

For dual boot I have been relying on Grub to boot Windows which it still does fine with UEFI.