Today we look at what happened with Windows pushing an update that broke Linux dualbooting systems in some situations. We also mention the solution.
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Windows deleted. Problem solved.
Just say microsoft instead of windows -_-
We have seen time and time again that Microsoft just cannot be trusted. Glad I switched to Linux two years ago, and wish I had done so much sooner.
It's not only Linux being affected. I have a tablet that I am dual bootinw Win11 and Win10, and Win11 stopped updating sometime in July. I can't fix it even with the installation ISO, which says my tablet is not supported even though it came with Win11 installed…
Thanks for this video. I am dual booting Windows and Linux MInt Debian and I had the error. I disabled secure boot and all good.
MS <spit> .. has no business touching things it did not install .. grub is outside of their world and they have zero rights to modify it in any way .. period .. is more of their criminal bs.. just like their modern ULA where they state they have the right to monitor your system for hate speech at which point they can take action against you .. my guess including locking you our of u machine .. wouldnt surprise me if that would evolve into locking your bank account.. I wouldnt put it past them
Use 2 drives and dual boot by going into the BIOS to change the boot order if and when you need to boot windows.
Don't ever install a dual boot on the same drive, and put the boot loader for each on it's own drive.
I was told only if you fave dual boot on same drive, dual boot if of if using separate drives.
Yup, Widdoze did this to me repeatedly. My solution – get rid of Windoze. Linux keeps getting better, Windoze keeps getting worse.
Which is why when I decided to revolt, I bought a dedicated Linux Mint Lenovo computer and would not even consider a dual boot.
again and again and again and again and …
Na to me, i use separate ssd for windows and linux in my laptop. My problem is getting the sound working on my Panasonic toughbook CF-19ZA813DM laptop, i can get it working now but not over Bluetooth but when I reboot i get no sound at all. Is there some kind of config file and how do I modify it. I'm new to Linux and really appreciate any help but please don't just tell me to look it up on the forums because I tried. I guess that the linux community doesn't like helping out each other
Good to know. I dual boot Windows 11 and Mint on my Framework Laptop. Linux is on the SSD and Windows is on an expansion card. GRUB doesn't see Windows and Windows bootloader shouldn't see GRUB. The fact that I haven't become aware of this until now shows how little use Windows. I haven't had any code to test recently.
Thank you for the warning. I have tried to switch to Linux a handful times over the years, and about two months ago it finally stuck with Nobara. I haven't booted into Windows since, but kept the drive intact just in case I needed it. This is the final straw that makes me transfer all my files from that drive and completely wipe it
My sextuplet boot system still works PERFECT. You morons are plagued because you use windows. STOP IT.
I'm using Arch, Debian, Fedora, Mint, Open Suse, and Ubuntu all on one box. I use Open Suse's graphical boot with 7 hard drives. One is just for backups. I have Gentoo and Ubuntu server on other boxes. I haven't used a windows at home since XP. I haven't used windows at work since 7. I still use Adobe 6 with Wine. No windows and no apple. GFYs.
That's enough windows for me. I've never run dual boots, but it's still high handed, and weak.
Yet another proof, that Win turned from OS somewhere in the past – to a full scale malware in present days.
And you know what it's best to do with malware? Remove it.
The real question is if it was really necessary?
I think it is proper to treat Windows with the same precautions as you would with an infected file
Clown show at MS.
Did a sys update of Manjaro first then Windows Update and all good.
Happy computing. 👍😁
This makes sense. I tried to boot into my windows for some things on my apple account. It refused to boot. Which is fine, I'll just forever be stuck on linux, oh no whatever shall i do?
Secure boot strike again again. Deja vu much. I agree with you, today it causes more problems than it mitigates risks.
4:32 This raises an interesting question about multi-booting.
Say I'd want to quad-boot bsd without internet, linux with internet, windows 7 without internet, and windows 10 or 11 with internet, all on a single laptop with only two internal drive slots.
Would it be better to divide them over two drives by windows and non-windows, or by internet and no internet?
For security reasons, I would assume the latter, because while the machine isn't really air-gapped, the drives are sort of quasi-air-gapped, even though they use the same hardware.
Edit: Near the end, you mention booting windows from an icy dock, but thus far I have never once successfully managed to boot windows xp-8.1 from an external drive on a linux laptop.
It would have been designed to kill users of Linux tipping their toes into a ecosystem other than Microsoft. Microsoft is company that holds no space for anything taking its revenue or user base
this can be constituted as a tentative monopolisitation
No big loss, don't care!
I stick to "one OS per box"…and…*dows does NOT get to have a box….I have no use for *dows. It's strictly 'nux only here… 🙂
Who uses windows?
Sounds like an underhanded act of desperation. I ditched Windows 2 months ago after 25 years on that platform and everything MS has done since has only confirmed my decision.
Dump Windows and single boot Linux. Tell Microsoft to GFT.
Now both windows and linux could break grub during update.
Just turned secure boot off. You don't need it for Windows or Linux. You can still boot EFI partitions without secure boot. You can boot windows 11 without secure boot.
For my dual boot PCs that have windows and Linux, I use the Linux to control the boot process. That means it's grub nine times out of 10. I have multiple dual boot systems that I use that have windows in Linux as well as multiple linuxes. This Microsoft change has not affected any of them.
glad to see you in a real home, or damn good greenscreen software, wither way it improves your image
laptop has one drive(laptop manufacturers deliberately make with one drive support), don't have the luxury of having in two separate drives, tried VM, performance and reliability is very bad.
thanks for reminding me why i use arch. btw, completely switched and refuse to use microsoft ever again, arch kde is so damn good
I mentioned something like this on some video, years ago, where I stated that I will never install a dual-boot of Windows and Linux because I just don't trust Microsoft to not maliciously create a bug to destroy Linux on a dual-boot system. I understand how some people cannot afford multiple machines, but older and used machines, which run Linux phenomenally well, can be found for $40-$100, and in some cases found for free. I feel the same way about Apple and their MacBook series of laptops. Apart from their OS really stinking, the machines Apple runs on are great. I have a MacBook Pro from 2015 that I updated the RAM to 8 GB and put in a 500 GB SSD. It flies, with Linux Mint.
I have a brand new $100 GEOBOOK PRO that was supposed to have W11 ready for install, and it just wouldn't do it. So I put ZORIN on it with little issues. I think something is wrong with the unit because the speakers don't work, but everything else is grand, and you can pair ear pods easily, so you still have sound. Again, Zorin just flies on this laptop.
People really should look and obtaining at least one PC or Laptop that they dedicate to some Linux Distro. When Microsoft goes totally FUBAR, at least you still have a usable machine upon which you can do all your work.
I duel boot on one drive and was very much impacted. I didn't get that error though. Grub was purged from the UEFI entries, the files were still there but there was only windows selection in the UEFI (bios) selection. I was unable to repair or rebuild grub in any way that added grub entries to the UEFI. I tried for hours using every method I knew and every method that I could find online.. The only way I was able to get grub to work was to install a second mint on a newly made partition. This allowed grub to work and I was able to get into my original OS finally. From there I deleted the new install, ran the grub repair and all was back to normal.
My HP Envy 17t laptop has a dual boot to Linux Mint and Windows. I have never booted to Windows and never will. I just did this in case I want to pass it on and the new owner wants Windows.
Wow this is what screwed my dual boot
Windows did this to me over a year ago
But Microsoft Loves Linux???
Here's a better idea than double booting that keep MS out of it!
I recently bought this WI-6 Pro Mini PC, Intel 12th N100(3.4GHz) Mini Desktop Computer for $158. It works GREAT!. I actually set it up as dual boot for Windows and Mint, however after seeing the problem MS just caused, I had a better idea.
Buy a mini pc (its 4 inches x 4 inches x 1 inch) and a monitor keyboard switch like the KVM switch on Amazon. There are multiple choices, but they run as low as $22. Then instead of dual booting, you just hit a button to switch between Windows and Linux.
Obviously, Windows is getting better and better.
That is why everybody wants Windows 11.
Yes, that was sarcasm.