Switching to Linux can be a long migration, so sometimes it’s great to be able to sample the best of both worlds on a single PC. Or, perhaps you’re even a fan of both operating systems! In this video, Jay will walk you through the process of dual-booting Fedora Workstation and Windows 11 every step of the way. Just make sure you back up first just in case!
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Awesome! Thanks for the video Jay.
rEFInd! Mentioned that often earlier. Use it since years on all my machines. Boot to firmware, from usb, kernels directly from root. All i wished.
Handy that Fedora comes with a proper partition tool that can shrink partitions. Alternatively booting into a live image environment and using gparted, that's what did the trick for me. Actually more than once, because I initially didn't reserve much space for linux as I wasn't sure I'd be daily driving it, but now the windows partition is just vestigial.
I dual booted Vanilla Linux and Windows 11, but I had two drives in my computer so I put Windows on one drive and Linux on the other.
I disconnected the power lead and SATA data cable from one of the drives and installed Windows.
I then removed the Windows drive and reconnected the cables to my second hard drive and then installed Vanilla OS on it.
Once I was finished I turned off the computer and reinstalled the removed Windows drive.
By default it will boot into Windows but I can change the boot order, so Linux is the Primary OS, in the BIOS. If I want to boot the Secondary OS then I just hit F12 whilst booting and select the other OS I want to boot.
To be honest the look of Fedora looks very similar to Vanilla OS, which I am currently using.
Heads up, as this has tripped me up many times, but do NOT test the media when you go to boot from the Fedora USB. If you create the drive in Windows it will fail the checksum test at the same point every time. This is because the checksum assumes that the disk is identical to the original ISO image. If you create it in Windows it will not be the same as Windows creates a hidden directory in every compatible volume that gets mounted. That directory is called 'System Volume Information' and it will alter the final checksum of the device.
I have my pc set up to be able to boot into 4 OS’s with 4 separate SSD’s. One with Ubuntu for my daily driver, one with Kali to study and practice penetration testing, one for my Windows gaming and legacy software, and one for my son’s gaming and school work. This way, if something gets messed up or corrupt on one SSD it doesn’t disrupt the others, especially anything my son does…
GRUB gives me a menu…
An important part is missing from this otherwise excellent lecture. How to reformat the Windows partition and add it as extra storage to Fedora, later. Isn't this the ultimate goal?
Great video! I didn't know we could shrink the Windows partition directly from the Fedora installer.
Can you please make a video tutorial about how to install Gentoo Linux via USB ? Thanks in advance. Really good video by the way )
Great video! Please would you consider covering different gui based boot loaders?
Could you do one for Debian and WIndows11 please? I dont like Fedora, I like the grand daddy Debian.
Great video Jay, however there's a couple of things you really should also do.
Disable hibernation in Windows, it can result in data loss if you reboot into the other operating system whilst the first is hibernated. The Arch wiki has a good article about this.
Windows only gives you a 100MB EFI partition, this suffices for a single boot windows system, but most linux systems recommend a minimum of around 250MB. This is easy to address with Fedora and most other live USBs, as you can fire up gparted and move the partitions around on the disk after resizing them to accommodate this increased EFI partition size, however you can't resize a VFAT EFI file system, so you'll need to backup the files, resize the partition, reformat it (keeping the same volume ID, very important otherwise Windows won't boot) and copy the files back in to the partition.
Avoid creating multiple EFI partitions as some other comments suggest, as this isn't a recommended configuration.
There a good detailed video that covers all this on this on the SysGuides YouTube channel, entitled, 'How to PROPERLY Dual-boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu (2024)'.
Certainly easy enough to setup, but too risky and too easy to screw up grub and corrupt your bootloader. Better to have separate disks, each with its own OS.
Been with Fedora since 2003 / '04….its the Beez Kneez!….LOL!
Will this method work for Linux Mint?
I use two SSD's. One for Windows and one for LInux. I use the Grub boot menu to pick which SSD (Windows 11 or Linux) to boot.
been doing it for years – have to run Windows stuff from time to time (yes, I also have VMs)
I stay away from dual-boot … NOT a good idea. An as someone else mentioned, I'd go with Debian!
My recommendation is to make sure you disable Fast Startup in Windows before you start dual booting linux. This will force Windows to close all files before shutting down. This will help prevent corrupting the Windows partition when you are using Linux.
Rather Debian, thx 😛 Oh and don't forget to give it it's own EFI partition so Win can't mess up your boot ✊
Thats my setup, exactly! 😀👍
sidenote: I hate the "dual boot" wording. Its just not what its means. You are not booting 2 OS at the same time… God I wish it was really in development, a shell, a hypervisor that is sole purpose to run desktop environments share ram, cpu, gpu, storage and instantly "alt tab" between them without any overhead that would be amazing.
As much as I have wanted, I have yet to find a compelling reason to dual boot windows/linux. WSL2 seemed to be the right solution, and worked well, especially after the network driver issue was corrected which allowed nmap and tcpdump to function properly.