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Roughly Gigabytes of unallocated space remained on the GB boot drive once this was finished. I then proceeded with and completed the Windows 10 installation process. I then rebooted into Windows to make sure it was working, created my user account, set up wi-fi, and completed other tasks that need to be done on a first-time OS installation. I next moved to install Linux. The last partition I created was Linux swap.
As with Windows, I continued and completed the Linux installation, and then rebooted. I selected Linux and completed the usual steps such as creating my user account.
Overall, the process was painless. I believe that we have now made it past these hurdles and can reliably set up multi-boot systems. Privacy Statement. What is an open decision? Resources What is open source?
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I got it working. HI, thanks for the article. I completed a dual install of centos 6. Follow the above and now always boots to windows not option to boot to centos.
Samuel, sure. I followed all the steps to the latter. The grub bootloader should display all the booting options. Likewise to Legacy. Have a question or suggestion? Please leave a comment to start the discussion. Please keep in mind that all comments are moderated and your email address will NOT be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Submit Article Request Suggest an Update. Before proceeding, you need to take note of the following: Dual-booting any Linux distribution not just CentOS 7 will not slow down your Windows system.
The two operating systems will be independent of each other and will not impact each other. In a dual boot setup, you can only use one operating system at a time. During the booting process, you will be presented with a list of operating systems to choose from by the boot loader. This is crucial so that in case of any mishaps or accidental formatting of the hard drive, you will still have your data intact.
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Related Posts. Thanks Reply. I installed centos 8, I think I lost my windows Reply. I was still able to dual boot both win10 and CentOS 7. Thx for the suggestions, but I don't think VM is for me. I use some memory intensive applications and want to minimize the footprint of the OS.
Also, my gut tells me that running one OS inside another may have it's own set of issues that I'd prefer to not layer on top of the usual host of difficulties when faced with debugging something that isn't working right. Perhaps I'm wrong and using a VM is smooth as silk and no different than what I'm doing, but I doubt it. So why UEFI? Good question. I believe that was limiting how many partitions could be made on the disk, so when I installed CentOS it ended up stomping on some Windows partitions and consequently win10 became unrecoverable and couldn't be repaired thus my repeated adnauseum number of reinstalls - I had my windows key memorized that's how many times I did it.
When I reformatted the disk to be gpt - using gdisk or fdisk the Windows installer would NOT let me install win10 - and apparently it's because I was still trying to install it in non-UEFI mode. Thanks again to everyone who pitched in ideas to help me out! I downloaded the everything version I guess and I created a bootable usb using rufus. So I went through the process and it is even asking me to create 1 MB of partition for biosboot and I did.
So it went through the install and as I enter the root password, the installation froze. I reset the laptop and now, it won't boot my windows First, how to properly install centos on a laptop? Is rufus a recommended tool to use?
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