You got a new sub, your clearly enunciated instructions with a consistent volume level throughout are a refreshing change for me. This is the third video I have watched of yours, it is the best multi-booting video I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You made something that was new to me that seemed so hard and complicated actually extremely easy and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing the extra bit about what ifs and whys. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
The way how Manjaro, Ubuntu and Fedora bootloaders interplay 👍 . . . really good that you showed these details. Thank you Dorian. Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
Fantastic video! Thanks a lot - I started fiddling around with Linux just about a year ago and I want to move to a different distro while still having access to the old system as a "fallback" if anything doesn't work quite as expected. This video is pure gold. I'm writing this before trying it out. So if you never hear from me again, I either bricked my system and was unable to access the internet on any device in my life ever again or I live happily ever after with multiple distros on my machine.
Thank you for this video. Finally - so many detailed and advanced tips here for multi-boot - not a high-level stuff like in other YT videos, that promise much but deliver little. 👍
This is one of the best Videos for Multi OS Guide. Helped me a lot, and rEFInd is a must. I recommend setting a command to deactivate Grub from installing itself back when you do a system update.
this video is such a godsend. Fedora’s Anaconda is so whacky the way it doesn’t just take you to the traditional partitioning GUI. As a (somewhat) beginner this video probably prevented me from wasting about 3 hours. Subbed.
Gparted live! *That's* what I was missing, thanks so much! I'm trying to dual boot my system for windows/Mint, but I already have mint installed, and I was wondering about how I was going to keep the mint settings that I've already set without formatting and re-installing everything. Now I know how I can format and resize the partitions I need, cheers and thank you! :D
@@Doriandotslash Can't you just keep on creating VHDs like for an example you can call the first VHD Apple and another one elementeryOS and Android, and so on and Install all of them in there apocopate VHDs and choose the install on hard drive option, Will creating VHD slow down PC?
@@DanielBrosman08211986 Well, if you're just using virtual machines then yes you can create as many as you want. But this is for installing on hardware in different partitions.
@@Doriandotslash I tried Ventoy to use different ISO’s loaded onto one USB stick. It then shows its startup menu system which can be modified with a tool it comes with that writes a properly formatted .json file: all kinds of choices, or it can be very simple. The tool ran a bg-service on windows, and the editing that produced the finished .json was done in a web-browser looking at a local page interacting with the service to rewrite the .json file (instructions, essentially.). It’s worked with any of the bootable ISO images I’ve tried so far. I think it would work with gparted and Hirens ISO’s. I’ll be trying those next. The EFI info you present is filtered into usability, invaluable, thanks!
Thanks a lot! This video actually made sense, and covered everything there is to know. It's also the only video mentioning dparted, which is really a nice tool! Finally get to trying Linux now, installed a Win11+Manjaro dual boot :)
Thank you!!! Your videos are so good. I noticed you haven't posted vidoes in a while. Hope you are ok and maybe continue posting new videos that really helpful to almost 100k people!
I saw this months ago, but came back just to say, thank you! this helped me a lot to understand how all the partitions work, also that having windows at first solves a lot of problems!
The easiest fix for the end-user until the developers fix the naming of the distro for the grub menu is to use grub customizer. Using that app enables you to go in and change the names of the distro as it shows up in the grub menu as well as remove the advanced boot options, the default boot, and the menu display duration. It is a gui app and not a CLI. If you dual boot or multi-boot it is a must have.
Put this video on thinking I knew enough about bootloaders, but nope, it wasn't until I watched this that it finally clicked for me. Because I grew up with DOS and Windows 3.11 and my first personal PC ran Windows 95, I've just always assumed that the last OS you installed would write over the boot loader like in those olden times. I messed around with Linux in the mid noughties and also played around with dualbooting and same thing, overwritten bootloader. It's not until now I really see the advantage of UEFI.
Question - I notice you did not create home partitions, is it not good practice to keep root partition separate from home content in distro's? I'm a newbie following all the advice out there.... Thanks great video
From my understanding, it's not strictly necessary anymore, but that used to be the preferred setup. Same with swap partition. If you just choose a partition and set it to root ( / ), the distro installer will automatically create a /home/ folder and ask about swap file size. I suppose it's advantageous to create one swap partition and then share that partition with other linux OS'es, because only one at a time will be using it..
One thing I wanted to add. It happened by accident, but if you're running Windows and dual-booting, it turns out it's not a bad idea to use a separate EFI partition for Linux! OpenSUSE wants a 500MB one anyway for some reason (While Windows is 90-somethin), but this really saved my bacon once... Long-story-short, I tanked my OpenSUSE install by running out of space during an update, all sorts of trouble, couldn't even reinstall the thing. I had to just nuke every trace of it from my drives. Fortunately, I just had to wipe out its particular EFI partition and leave my Windows10 one alone, so I still had a bootable system while I figured it out! I imagine this would have been much more complicated to isolate the problem bootloader and try not to affect anything else. Maybe this isn't necessarily "The Right Way", but it doesn't hurt if you've got the space! :)
Ok so you were spot on about the annoying naming all sisters with the sane bootloader name. My install of zorin 15.3 is broken so decided to install 17.3 as a clean I stall on a new drive. It's a pain to get to the SSD being an AIO so I used the dvd sata for another SSD. Zorin installer wanted to overwrite or install alongside the existing install on the old drive, then even when I told it where to install and where to put the new EFI system it installed it on the right drive but just added it as another option on the existing bootloader😂 I will have to disconnect the other drive and start again.
At last I found someone who is helping in a planned manner.... Thank you sir, still in 2024 this video gives the right information on how to do things the right way 🙏 Also can you please make a video on multi-boot with Windows!!! Cause today's info. Is fucked can't find the right way to make it work I have Hp laptop which has windows11 on it. Can you please make a video like this one explaining everything from scratch on how can someone Dual-boot Linux on Windows Machine 🙌❤️
We want a Teacher like you who can really solve our problems..... Please make a video on how to dual-boot/ multiple-boot Linux distributions on Windows Machine 🙌
Great tutorial. I'd feel comfortable this after doing this ~20x & 5 instances of which having required unfcuking. Of COURSE Manjaro OMITS the LABEL field in it's partition manager Despite carefully creating labels to make later selecting it unambiguous, it's STILL based on recollection. After all, when overwriting or reformatting a partition, who needs to be careful. lol (gotta love distros).
@DorianDotSlash Great video. But also please note that if you have different distros with different filesystems the grub os prober feature doesn't work. Some people format and make partitions or are forced to make/format partitions during the install. And in some of those cases the distro defaults the new formatted partition to a different one e.g. btrfs, LVM, encrypted variations etc. (considering my base linux filesystem is ext4). In such cases make sure that multi-booted distros have the same filesystem type. Cheers!
I had lots of problems trying to dual boot- usually a Windows update wrecking GRUB. I finally got a SATA drive power switch thing and just push the button to power the drive I want to boot from.
I had too many issues with Grub. My solution was to buy a load of small SSD's and install a hot swap bay in the front of the PC case. There are permanent hard drives install in the PC for anything that I want all distros to have access to. Then, like the cartridge games of old, I just slot in the distro that I want to run and hit the power button. It's probably not the way to do it, but it works.
I actually really dig this approach. In a weird way it has that "retro-future" vibe too! That chunky ka-thunk-click! into the slot when replacing drives would be neat, like the tactile feeling of VHS or ZIP-drives without the crappiness LOL. That's a pretty cool idea! I'm glad you shared it! :)
@@ArcangelZero7 Thanks. And you're welcome :) It has worked quite well, but I am beginning to see some issues. As Linux starts to use UEFI there seems to be a bit of confusion on start up. It doesn't stop it from booting but it does display errors. The UEFI does fancy things like display the distros logo on the motherboard's boot screen, and I think that this is where the error is coming from. Not an issue on a legacy BIOS, but as distros move away from BIOS and towards UEFI it could be the beginning of real issues. I'm not sure and it is something that I need to research as other things like TPM might go wrong as well. But for now, even if you completely wreck a distro, just hit eject, slot in a fresh copy, and press play 🤣
Thank you this helps a lot. I've tried learning about these type of stuff, but reading it bit by bit online makes it hard and confusing. This video that explains everything at once and how they're connected to each other makes it so easy. How long did it take you to learn this and how do you go about it?
Note also if ever a kernel is updated in the other installed OSes then you need to perform a sudo update-grub in the master bootloader OS to make those updated kernels active. Nice clear video for those looking to multiboot. For those with more than one drive I'd recommend keeping Windows on it's own drive with it's own bootloader and keep any multi Linux OSes on another drive with their bootloaders.
It works fine if you install Windows first. Then create a create boot partition for the different versions of Linux you will install. Windows just insists on being first.
Great vid, I seem to run in to problems when trying to reinstall fresh Linux and retain windows. This may help. Also spooky Ubuntu wallpaper you got there.
I have an old PC BIOS/MBR 🖥 Windows 10 Home, and wanted to follow this tutorial you created to install Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora latest releases as multi-boot system, is the order referring here the correct to install for BIOS/MBR System...?
I had the problem, that Gparted and Ubuntu wouldn't see my hard drive. Here is a quick fix: make sure to turn off raid in your bios (default in many laptops) and use AHCI instead. Also if you are using a WIndows Laptop, disable hybernation under "choose what opening the lid does".
If i update a kernel on a secondary linux i have to update my grub of the primary linux each time right? So maybe pressing the button is more convenient?
fu*k man, I can't find your video...when I was most needed. today I just got random RUclips recommendation . Thanks alot u just cleared my all doubt. It's so short and sweet.🙏🙏
I would have thought it's possible to boot Manjaro from Ubuntu's bootloader. Grub boot-loader works in the same way regardless of system used. I don't know why Manjaro got stuck when you tried, and I've yet to install it. But I will in a few weeks time then see what happens.
@@Doriandotslash Well, I've finally installed Manjaro Xfce, and it boots from its own grub, AND Linux Mint's grub. I did initially have a problem booting from Mint, but that was because in running 'update-grub', it added the Manjaro entry incorrectly. So I ended up editing the 'grub.cfg' file to correct the error, and now it boots up fine from there.
Hello Dorian, wb :) on windows side easy way for me run command prompt (cmd) as admin and type: powercfg hibernate off after install linux with dual boot if u ant reach windows disk/partions try this. thank you.
Hi Dorian, thank you for the video. I have one 250 GB SSD that has Fedora on it and I have a 2 TB HDD for storage. I am fairly new to Linux and am still trying to find the distro that I like the best. So far, Fedora is amazing, but I would like to try Parrot OS, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch, Endeavour and a few more, but I am not wanting to use a virtual machine because I feel it really lessens the experience of the OS. I was hoping to be able to use my 2TB HDD for each OS with about 100GB allocated per OS. I had to make an additional efi file and to try it out I install Ubuntu. I can now run Fedora and Ubuntu, but it is not that smooth as I have to go into the boot options within UEFI and choose which to boot from. When I turn the computer on it goes to the last OS that I was in and I cant get the boot option to show upon startup. Is there any way to add the options for Ubuntu and fedora or would I have to install the OS on the same Hard Drive?
You need to update Grub for it to show the other OSes installed. Ubuntu for example, open a terminal and type "sudo update-grub" and let it finish. It will find the other options and add it to the Grub menu. Just make sure Ubuntu is selected as your default UEFI entry in your BIOS settings, and it should show all the distros installed on your system so you can pick whichever one you want to boot into. If you want to test out distros without using a virtual machine, you can always make sure you're downloading LiveISO files so you can boot off of the USB stick and test it out on hardware.
@@Doriandotslash Hey Dorian, I have a similar question! I have Pop!_OS installed on one of my SSDs and I currently use it as my main system. I use the second drive just for storage, but I want to make a partition there and install Arch. As far as I understand, I can use the existing EFI partition and configure systemd-boot in a way so it sees the other system on my second drive, but I lack the knowledge to pull this off correctly and most articles I can find focus on dual-booting with Windows. So, that's my question: how do I do that? I have used Arch before and I'm pretty familiar with the normal installation process. I just need to know what I should do differently with this set up in mind.
@@noctiflorous1337 You can reuse the EFI partition, and Arch will just installed a GRUB bootloader in it. Then you can select which bootloader you want to run when your system boots up by pressing whatever key your system uses to select a boot device (F11, F12 etc). If you select Arch's GRUB bootloader as the default, then PopOS will also be in that list. Configuring systemd-boot isn't hard if you follow the wikis, but using Grub is much easier as it will automatically detect other distros when it is updated.
@@Doriandotslash thank you for replying! I had a problem with GRUB when I tried to install Arch for the first time. I just couldn't make it work on NVMe. Once I tried using systemd-boot, everything worked fine. Maybe I missed something, I'll look into it more. Otherwise, your solution sounds like exactly what I need.
What distro are better than others on specific tasks? I heard Manjaro is the best to use when one need to edit vidéos. Which other distros should we have and for what purpose?
Thank you! This information is GOLD! But I have a problem with CentOS 7. Fedora and CentOS are from the same branche but by CentOS 7 there is no Advanced Custom - option. Is it posible to set the bunch of settings in Custom - option?
WOW! Just came across your video (and channel) while searching this subject. A really informative and easy to follow video. I want to have my Windows 10 laptop boot with options for three or four versions of Linux, all OS's to have equal amount of SSD space if my 1Tb ssd drive. This has given me the info to try it but if any tips my return would be appreciated please. What make & model is your laptop, a very easy bios? 👍
if im locked out of my bios would this stil work for a windows machine? i cannot change any settings on my laptop due being locked out of bios admin (standard recovery methods where attempted many times) wont this make my drives read only or lock me out of my linux system or windows system?
I'd recommend you install REFInd. It's available in most distro repos, and is a graphical boot menu that shows the distro logos to choose from. If you REALLY want to keep grub, check where your distro's GRUB config file is, and add/edit it to have a line "GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600" or whatever resolution you'd prefer that makes the text large enough.
I tried to add PopOS to a laptop that already had Manjaro on it and now I can no longer boot into Manjaro. Any advice? I know I haven’t erased Manjaro because I installed them in different partitions, and I was able to use my bootable Manjaro USB to mount the partition and my files were still there. I wonder if issue has to do with PopOS using systemD and Manjaro using GRUB? I tried updating grub but no luck. Also not seeing either Pop or Manjaro in my bios of my laptop (Dell Latitude e7470).
Following your instruction, I have successfully installed Fedora on my Surface, (previously I had also installed Ubuntu). But here's the question, when I try to update-grub in Ubuntu, it doesn't work, not like yours in this video, although I can choose Fedora if I select Fedora as the first place in BIOS. But this is not the case in Ubuntu.
No it can't. Each OS runs its own package manager to handle what is installed. Mixing them together would be a nightmare, especially since files are installed in multiple different directories on a system.
I’ve never tried 2 different windows versions at once. But if you’re going to try it, you should definitely do a full backup in case things go wrong. There’s lots of free backup tools out there. You could also make a boot disk with clonezilla to do it.
@@zupaz8104 In theory it should install into the partition you tell it to, but I’m not sure if the bootloader will give you and option on which Windows version to boot into. And if you using an MBR disk then only the active partition will ever boot. These are probably questions best asked on a Windows forum to be honest.
That's great but My Question is I have two Samsung's NVMe SSDs of 1TB each , installed in my System, and I allocated 440 GB to Windows 11 in SSD-1 and in the Same drive I've extended the /EFI system partition of windows 11 from 200 MBs to 10 GB in VFAT file format, and Windows 11 is running fine and smooth, now I wants to Install RHEL, Ubuntu , Debian and Manjaro one on the same drive on SSD-1 with windows 11 but in separate partition with ext-4 file system and the others are in the SSD-2 , but the thing is when I select a drive to install ubuntu it do not provide me the option for installing the boot loader on the SSD-1 in the EFI system partition i extended earlier for that purpose .... And even when I run " update-grub" command and it detects other os and update the grub but do not load their launchers..
Finally somebody is telling about real multi-booting Linux distros instead of just dual-booting Windows and Linux on a virtual machine!!
why would you though
Cuz some don't want to use a VM? Not a crazy concept@@splits8999
@@splits8999 Because it's fun
@@herkatron makes sense
@@splits8999 I want to distro hop, but I also want to keep a different installation of a distro around that I can keep going back to.
You got a new sub, your clearly enunciated instructions with a consistent volume level throughout are a refreshing change for me. This is the third video I have watched of yours, it is the best multi-booting video I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! You made something that was new to me that seemed so hard and complicated actually extremely easy and enjoyable. Thanks for sharing the extra bit about what ifs and whys. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
100% agree, thank you for this guide!👏👏
Crisp and clear, no shouting or whatsupping, no ums or errs, and enough info to enable me to use it with some confidence. Subscribed.
The way how Manjaro, Ubuntu and Fedora bootloaders interplay 👍 . . . really good that you showed these details. Thank you Dorian.
Kindest regards, friends and neighbours.
Thanks brother. You are the only guy on RUclips doing this.
Appreciate it!
Fantastic video! Thanks a lot - I started fiddling around with Linux just about a year ago and I want to move to a different distro while still having access to the old system as a "fallback" if anything doesn't work quite as expected. This video is pure gold.
I'm writing this before trying it out. So if you never hear from me again, I either bricked my system and was unable to access the internet on any device in my life ever again or I live happily ever after with multiple distros on my machine.
Thank you for this video. Finally - so many detailed and advanced tips here for multi-boot - not a high-level stuff like in other YT videos, that promise much but deliver little. 👍
This is one of the best Videos for Multi OS Guide. Helped me a lot, and rEFInd is a must. I recommend setting a command to deactivate Grub from installing itself back when you do a system update.
Why?
@@utubepunk what ?
This has been the video I’ve needed for ages, Thank you.
Amazing video! Awesome job! I always had challenges understanding the dual-boot process but this video makes it a cake-walk. Huge thank you!
damn... the most clear and complete guide on dualboot out there.. tks brow, amazing job
Thank u for being a great human being and taking ti to help all of us noobs out cheers
You are so right about some distros not changing the bootloader. Very annoying.
moral of the video : *sudo update-grub*
this video is such a godsend. Fedora’s Anaconda is so whacky the way it doesn’t just take you to the traditional partitioning GUI. As a (somewhat) beginner this video probably prevented me from wasting about 3 hours. Subbed.
Amazing!! You rock dude, one of very few videos were you understand everything explained
Gparted live! *That's* what I was missing, thanks so much! I'm trying to dual boot my system for windows/Mint, but I already have mint installed, and I was wondering about how I was going to keep the mint settings that I've already set without formatting and re-installing everything. Now I know how I can format and resize the partitions I need, cheers and thank you! :D
Yes it's a very handy tool to keep on a USB stick for working on partitions and also doing repairs when things go wrong. Glad you found it helpful!
@@Doriandotslash Can't you just keep on creating VHDs like for an example you can call the first VHD Apple and another one elementeryOS and Android, and so on and Install all of them in there apocopate VHDs and choose the install on hard drive option, Will creating VHD slow down PC?
@@DanielBrosman08211986 Well, if you're just using virtual machines then yes you can create as many as you want. But this is for installing on hardware in different partitions.
@@Doriandotslash Waiting for a video guide for Virtual KVM Whonix. If possible please consider.
@@Doriandotslash I tried Ventoy to use different ISO’s loaded onto one USB stick. It then shows its startup menu system which can be modified with a tool it comes with that writes a properly formatted .json file: all kinds of choices, or it can be very simple. The tool ran a bg-service on windows, and the editing that produced the finished .json was done in a web-browser looking at a local page interacting with the service to rewrite the .json file (instructions, essentially.). It’s worked with any of the bootable ISO images I’ve tried so far. I think it would work with gparted and Hirens ISO’s. I’ll be trying those next.
The EFI info you present is filtered into usability, invaluable, thanks!
This is one of the best explanations of dual booting with Linux! 😊
Damn such a lovely and concise video, awesome!
Thanks a lot! This video actually made sense, and covered everything there is to know. It's also the only video mentioning dparted, which is really a nice tool! Finally get to trying Linux now, installed a Win11+Manjaro dual boot :)
Best linux how-to videos available!!!
Excellent ! Congratulations from Brazil !
Thank you!!! Your videos are so good. I noticed you haven't posted vidoes in a while. Hope you are ok and maybe continue posting new videos that really helpful to almost 100k people!
Thanks! Yes things are fine. Just been busy with real life since my 2nd child was born and took a break.
@@Doriandotslash That's awesome... Totally justified, congratulations!!!
12:44 This is what i wanted to check, thank you a lot!
So I gotta do now a clean install of all OSes I wanted to try
I saw this months ago, but came back just to say, thank you! this helped me a lot to understand how all the partitions work, also that having windows at first solves a lot of problems!
Wow! This is freakin useful man. Thank you for this detailed video.
The easiest fix for the end-user until the developers fix the naming of the distro for the grub menu is to use grub customizer. Using that app enables you to go in and change the names of the distro as it shows up in the grub menu as well as remove the advanced boot options, the default boot, and the menu display duration. It is a gui app and not a CLI. If you dual boot or multi-boot it is a must have.
Thanks for the tip.
Thanks Dorian... your tutorial is 100% the best I have found on the net....
Thanks so much dude, this video really helped me get my multiboot system setup
Put this video on thinking I knew enough about bootloaders, but nope, it wasn't until I watched this that it finally clicked for me. Because I grew up with DOS and Windows 3.11 and my first personal PC ran Windows 95, I've just always assumed that the last OS you installed would write over the boot loader like in those olden times. I messed around with Linux in the mid noughties and also played around with dualbooting and same thing, overwritten bootloader. It's not until now I really see the advantage of UEFI.
Thank you so much! After watching this, I am able to set up any hard disk with uefi myself, and now I also know how uefi actually works!
Great to hear!
Thank you. Best multiboot explanation yet.
Question - I notice you did not create home partitions, is it not good practice to keep root partition separate from home content in distro's? I'm a newbie following all the advice out there.... Thanks great video
From my understanding, it's not strictly necessary anymore, but that used to be the preferred setup. Same with swap partition. If you just choose a partition and set it to root ( / ), the distro installer will automatically create a /home/ folder and ask about swap file size. I suppose it's advantageous to create one swap partition and then share that partition with other linux OS'es, because only one at a time will be using it..
Thank You for not speaking another language and having Your title in English.
Best guide video in whole RUclips.. 😇
One thing I wanted to add. It happened by accident, but if you're running Windows and dual-booting, it turns out it's not a bad idea to use a separate EFI partition for Linux!
OpenSUSE wants a 500MB one anyway for some reason (While Windows is 90-somethin), but this really saved my bacon once...
Long-story-short, I tanked my OpenSUSE install by running out of space during an update, all sorts of trouble, couldn't even reinstall the thing. I had to just nuke every trace of it from my drives.
Fortunately, I just had to wipe out its particular EFI partition and leave my Windows10 one alone, so I still had a bootable system while I figured it out! I imagine this would have been much more complicated to isolate the problem bootloader and try not to affect anything else.
Maybe this isn't necessarily "The Right Way", but it doesn't hurt if you've got the space! :)
Thank you. Exactly what i was looking for
This is a very helpful resource… very well explained much appreciated! Excellent overview👨🏽💻👍
Thanks for this great video i'm setting a dual boot with popos and parrotos and this video comes very handy to me
Ok so you were spot on about the annoying naming all sisters with the sane bootloader name. My install of zorin 15.3 is broken so decided to install 17.3 as a clean I stall on a new drive. It's a pain to get to the SSD being an AIO so I used the dvd sata for another SSD. Zorin installer wanted to overwrite or install alongside the existing install on the old drive, then even when I told it where to install and where to put the new EFI system it installed it on the right drive but just added it as another option on the existing bootloader😂 I will have to disconnect the other drive and start again.
Thanks for this video sir
I seriously learnt alot from this video. Especially i leart to use grub in a proper way
Yes. Very well done. Just what I was looking for.
Best video about this topic in whole yt
Hello. How to create more than 4 primary partitions ? Please help ! Thank you
I dont know why my Disk changed from GPT to MBR. I should re-setup all with GPT. So I can create more than 4 partitions.
At last I found someone who is helping in a planned manner.... Thank you sir, still in 2024 this video gives the right information on how to do things the right way 🙏
Also can you please make a video on multi-boot with Windows!!!
Cause today's info. Is fucked can't find the right way to make it work
I have Hp laptop which has windows11 on it.
Can you please make a video like this one explaining everything from scratch on how can someone Dual-boot Linux on Windows Machine 🙌❤️
We want a Teacher like you who can really solve our problems.....
Please make a video on how to dual-boot/ multiple-boot Linux distributions on Windows Machine 🙌
Perfect Video ! Excellent Work ! Thank You :)
Thank you too!
Great tutorial. I'd feel comfortable this after doing this ~20x & 5 instances of which having required unfcuking.
Of COURSE Manjaro OMITS the LABEL field in it's partition manager
Despite carefully creating labels to make later selecting it unambiguous, it's STILL based on recollection.
After all, when overwriting or reformatting a partition, who needs to be careful. lol (gotta love distros).
@DorianDotSlash Great video. But also please note that if you have different distros with different filesystems the grub os prober feature doesn't work.
Some people format and make partitions or are forced to make/format partitions during the install. And in some of those cases the distro defaults the new formatted partition to a different one e.g. btrfs, LVM, encrypted variations etc. (considering my base linux filesystem is ext4).
In such cases make sure that multi-booted distros have the same filesystem type.
Cheers!
I had lots of problems trying to dual boot- usually a Windows update wrecking GRUB. I finally got a SATA drive power switch thing and just push the button to power the drive I want to boot from.
Your tutorial videos are amazing. I decided to go back to creating soft after 16 years. soft soft is so easy to get into, but also offers
I had too many issues with Grub. My solution was to buy a load of small SSD's and install a hot swap bay in the front of the PC case. There are permanent hard drives install in the PC for anything that I want all distros to have access to. Then, like the cartridge games of old, I just slot in the distro that I want to run and hit the power button.
It's probably not the way to do it, but it works.
I actually really dig this approach. In a weird way it has that "retro-future" vibe too! That chunky ka-thunk-click! into the slot when replacing drives would be neat, like the tactile feeling of VHS or ZIP-drives without the crappiness LOL.
That's a pretty cool idea! I'm glad you shared it! :)
@@ArcangelZero7 Thanks. And you're welcome :) It has worked quite well, but I am beginning to see some issues.
As Linux starts to use UEFI there seems to be a bit of confusion on start up. It doesn't stop it from booting but it does display errors. The UEFI does fancy things like display the distros logo on the motherboard's boot screen, and I think that this is where the error is coming from. Not an issue on a legacy BIOS, but as distros move away from BIOS and towards UEFI it could be the beginning of real issues.
I'm not sure and it is something that I need to research as other things like TPM might go wrong as well.
But for now, even if you completely wreck a distro, just hit eject, slot in a fresh copy, and press play 🤣
Best comprhensive guide , helped me alot
He sounds like the Windows 10, 11 channel guy?? Great video.. thanks from a new sub .
Never heard that one before :)
Thank you so much! I added Mint to a Win10 system on 7 year old hardware. The Win10 crawls (likely due to only having 4GB memory) and Mint is fine.
Great to hear!
Best video ever..clean and simple
I've seen that you're disk is a basic disk. Is it possible to dual boot on dynamic disk and on older or legacy bios? If so, how?
Thank you this helps a lot. I've tried learning about these type of stuff, but reading it bit by bit online makes it hard and confusing. This video that explains everything at once and how they're connected to each other makes it so easy. How long did it take you to learn this and how do you go about it?
amazing video!! thank you :)
Thank you too
Note also if ever a kernel is updated in the other installed OSes then you need to perform a sudo update-grub in the master bootloader OS to make those updated kernels active. Nice clear video for those looking to multiboot. For those with more than one drive I'd recommend keeping Windows on it's own drive with it's own bootloader and keep any multi Linux OSes on another drive with their bootloaders.
He mentions it in the video for both Manjaro and ubuntu
It works fine if you install Windows first. Then create a create boot partition for the different versions of Linux you will install. Windows just insists on being first.
Great vid, I seem to run in to problems when trying to reinstall fresh Linux and retain windows. This may help.
Also spooky Ubuntu wallpaper you got there.
Hope it helps you out! Cheers
It is really nice and usefull thank you . i love pop os and fedora alot i think i will try your way to install them together
Glad I could help, thank you!
Newbie to linux, so doing multiboot to explore, thanks for this vid, and subscribing coz of it.
Thanks for this great tuto ... neat and useful notes
I wish you show the same .. multi-boot with two Linux OS on Win 10
I have an old PC BIOS/MBR 🖥 Windows 10 Home, and wanted to follow this tutorial you created to install Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora latest releases as multi-boot system, is the order referring here the correct to install for BIOS/MBR System...?
I had the problem, that Gparted and Ubuntu wouldn't see my hard drive. Here is a quick fix: make sure to turn off raid in your bios (default in many laptops) and use AHCI instead. Also if you are using a WIndows Laptop, disable hybernation under "choose what opening the lid does".
wow, great video! thanks!
Thanks so much, great video.
If i update a kernel on a secondary linux i have to update my grub of the primary linux each time right? So maybe pressing the button is more convenient?
Great video!
fu*k man, I can't find your video...when I was most needed. today I just got random RUclips recommendation . Thanks alot u just cleared my all doubt. It's so short and sweet.🙏🙏
THANK YOU SIR, YOU ARE FANTASTIC!!
I would have thought it's possible to boot Manjaro from Ubuntu's bootloader. Grub boot-loader works in the same way regardless of system used. I don't know why Manjaro got stuck when you tried, and I've yet to install it. But I will in a few weeks time then see what happens.
It’s a common issues. Sometimes it just doesn’t work that way.
@@Doriandotslash Well, I've finally installed Manjaro Xfce, and it boots from its own grub, AND Linux Mint's grub. I did initially have a problem booting from Mint, but that was because in running 'update-grub', it added the Manjaro entry incorrectly. So I ended up editing the 'grub.cfg' file to correct the error, and now it boots up fine from there.
thank u so much for this great video
Hello Dorian, wb :)
on windows side easy way for me run command prompt (cmd) as admin and type:
powercfg hibernate off
after install linux with dual boot if u ant reach windows disk/partions try this.
thank you.
Ah yes that's basically doing the same thing but with the cmd prompt. Good to point out though thank you!
Hi Dorian, thank you for the video. I have one 250 GB SSD that has Fedora on it and I have a 2 TB HDD for storage. I am fairly new to Linux and am still trying to find the distro that I like the best. So far, Fedora is amazing, but I would like to try Parrot OS, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch, Endeavour and a few more, but I am not wanting to use a virtual machine because I feel it really lessens the experience of the OS. I was hoping to be able to use my 2TB HDD for each OS with about 100GB allocated per OS. I had to make an additional efi file and to try it out I install Ubuntu. I can now run Fedora and Ubuntu, but it is not that smooth as I have to go into the boot options within UEFI and choose which to boot from. When I turn the computer on it goes to the last OS that I was in and I cant get the boot option to show upon startup. Is there any way to add the options for Ubuntu and fedora or would I have to install the OS on the same Hard Drive?
You need to update Grub for it to show the other OSes installed. Ubuntu for example, open a terminal and type "sudo update-grub" and let it finish. It will find the other options and add it to the Grub menu. Just make sure Ubuntu is selected as your default UEFI entry in your BIOS settings, and it should show all the distros installed on your system so you can pick whichever one you want to boot into. If you want to test out distros without using a virtual machine, you can always make sure you're downloading LiveISO files so you can boot off of the USB stick and test it out on hardware.
@@Doriandotslash Hey Dorian, I have a similar question!
I have Pop!_OS installed on one of my SSDs and I currently use it as my main system. I use the second drive just for storage, but I want to make a partition there and install Arch. As far as I understand, I can use the existing EFI partition and configure systemd-boot in a way so it sees the other system on my second drive, but I lack the knowledge to pull this off correctly and most articles I can find focus on dual-booting with Windows.
So, that's my question: how do I do that?
I have used Arch before and I'm pretty familiar with the normal installation process. I just need to know what I should do differently with this set up in mind.
@@noctiflorous1337 You can reuse the EFI partition, and Arch will just installed a GRUB bootloader in it. Then you can select which bootloader you want to run when your system boots up by pressing whatever key your system uses to select a boot device (F11, F12 etc). If you select Arch's GRUB bootloader as the default, then PopOS will also be in that list. Configuring systemd-boot isn't hard if you follow the wikis, but using Grub is much easier as it will automatically detect other distros when it is updated.
@@Doriandotslash thank you for replying!
I had a problem with GRUB when I tried to install Arch for the first time. I just couldn't make it work on NVMe. Once I tried using systemd-boot, everything worked fine. Maybe I missed something, I'll look into it more. Otherwise, your solution sounds like exactly what I need.
Does this work if I want to install manjaro and linux mint on the same system
Also are you using the Mac or PC version?
What distro are better than others on specific tasks? I heard Manjaro is the best to use when one need to edit vidéos. Which other distros should we have and for what purpose?
since windows install messes up the linux bootloader, I was hoping to see how you handle that situation. I did learn alot.
Thank you! This information is GOLD! But I have a problem with CentOS 7. Fedora and CentOS are from the same branche but by CentOS 7 there is no Advanced Custom - option. Is it posible to set the bunch of settings in Custom - option?
Can all the distos share the same swap partition?
WOW! Just came across your video (and channel) while searching this subject. A really informative and easy to follow video. I want to have my Windows 10 laptop boot with options for three or four versions of Linux, all OS's to have equal amount of SSD space if my 1Tb ssd drive. This has given me the info to try it but if any tips my return would be appreciated please. What make & model is your laptop, a very easy bios? 👍
if im locked out of my bios would this stil work for a windows machine?
i cannot change any settings on my laptop due being locked out of bios admin (standard recovery methods where attempted many times)
wont this make my drives read only or lock me out of my linux system or windows system?
Dorian, how do I change the boot menu to a GUI? The text is so small it's difficult to see.
I'd recommend you install REFInd. It's available in most distro repos, and is a graphical boot menu that shows the distro logos to choose from. If you REALLY want to keep grub, check where your distro's GRUB config file is, and add/edit it to have a line "GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600" or whatever resolution you'd prefer that makes the text large enough.
I tried to add PopOS to a laptop that already had Manjaro on it and now I can no longer boot into Manjaro. Any advice? I know I haven’t erased Manjaro because I installed them in different partitions, and I was able to use my bootable Manjaro USB to mount the partition and my files were still there.
I wonder if issue has to do with PopOS using systemD and Manjaro using GRUB? I tried updating grub but no luck. Also not seeing either Pop or Manjaro in my bios of my laptop (Dell Latitude e7470).
I'm assuming you can re-enable bitlocker when you're done. Can you encrypt each Linux install as well?
Following your instruction, I have successfully installed Fedora on my Surface, (previously I had also installed Ubuntu). But here's the question, when I try to update-grub in Ubuntu, it doesn't work, not like yours in this video, although I can choose Fedora if I select Fedora as the first place in BIOS. But this is not the case in Ubuntu.
is there a video anywhere for legacy bios (no UEFI)?
Can ubuntu and elementary share software which is already installed on ubuntu? If its possible, How do i do that ?
No it can't. Each OS runs its own package manager to handle what is installed. Mixing them together would be a nightmare, especially since files are installed in multiple different directories on a system.
@@Doriandotslash Thanks man, I appreciate.😊
thanks for this video and you got subs
Thanks so much, I"ll try nobara and zorin on win 11. Hope it works!
Extremely helpful!
Glad to hear!
Thanks for tutorial.
Is there a easy way to know how much is space is necessary for each distro? Can I change the parted size on hd later , easily?
can you help me im trying to install windows 7 with windows 10 so i can boot each but im nervous ill mess something up and lose my main system
I’ve never tried 2 different windows versions at once. But if you’re going to try it, you should definitely do a full backup in case things go wrong. There’s lots of free backup tools out there. You could also make a boot disk with clonezilla to do it.
@@Doriandotslash ik but what if i made a partition and then boot from the drive and select custom install and install on my partition
@@zupaz8104 In theory it should install into the partition you tell it to, but I’m not sure if the bootloader will give you and option on which Windows version to boot into. And if you using an MBR disk then only the active partition will ever boot. These are probably questions best asked on a Windows forum to be honest.
@@Doriandotslash how do I know if im running a mbr disk
@@zupaz8104 run “sudo parted -l” in a terminal. It will say either gpt or msdos. If it says msdos them it’s MBR.
Thank you very very very much !!
That's great but My Question is I have two Samsung's NVMe SSDs of 1TB each , installed in my System, and I allocated 440 GB to Windows 11 in SSD-1 and in the Same drive I've extended the /EFI system partition of windows 11 from 200 MBs to 10 GB in VFAT file format, and Windows 11 is running fine and smooth, now I wants to Install RHEL, Ubuntu , Debian and Manjaro one on the same drive on SSD-1 with windows 11 but in separate partition with ext-4 file system and the others are in the SSD-2 , but the thing is when I select a drive to install ubuntu it do not provide me the option for installing the boot loader on the SSD-1 in the EFI system partition i extended earlier for that purpose .... And even when I run " update-grub" command and it detects other os and update the grub but do not load their launchers..
What about if you want boot several OSes of different kinds, say Windows 98, MacOS, Solaris, Suse linux, mandrake Linux and ubuntu linux?
Look at installing rEFInd. It’s a boot loader that will boot whatever is on your system. It can be installed from within Linux.
Is it fine and possible to have ,Ubuntu ,fedora, wifislax ,whonix and Kali Linux ,all together in different partitions ?