▲ | jaredhallen 2 days ago | |
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. |