Thank you for a great step by step. I've been running MX Linux since 2014 and I've forgotten most of what i knew about Windows. I used to be a good XP guy but that was many years ago. Recently got a new Win 11 laptop and finding lots to learn to get MX running on my HP17ryzen. A nice box but a learning experience. Thanks again, for a great job leading a Windows newby by the hand.
Have to say, this was one of the best vids on explaining Duel boot with Windows. I am though a real Noob where Linux is concerned, so I was not too sure when you mentioned Diskparted during the vid. I could not understand where that came from, or does the linux Distro have it already. I hope that makes a bit of sense. None the less, it was a great vid. Thank you so much.
@@eflinux Hi There. Yes I did mean diskpart. After this Noob tried installing this brilliant Distro, I came accros that word later on. Alas, because I am an oldy And a noob, I did not actually manage to install it off the usb , this time. I am going to go through the replys below and se if they had similar problems and how they finished it.All the best.
I wish I had seen this video a couple years ago before messing up my laptop. I got it to work, but it was a mess. Formatting right following your tutorial!
Thanks for this! Your clear explanation gave me the courage to finally try dual booting my Win10 laptop. I followed these steps to dual boot AntiX Linux - the process was practically identical. After the initial reboot, it went straight to Windows and I got worried, but it turns out the installation created a new entry in the UEFI boot menu and I just had to change the boot order :)
This is working with MBR too, I follow your steps but ESP was not able for me idk why. But well... Just THANK YOU SO MUCH BROO, A big hug tu U, I was afraid to do this, I'm really a noob with linux.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback! Yes, with MBR it works a little differently, I might do a tutorial about that as it seems many people are using MBR. Glad it helped you out! Cheers :)
EF - Tech Made Simple - Hi Ermanno, I have shrunk the volume on my Windows PC and have a new partition. Before I go ahead with the installation of MX I have a question to ask you:- I have a live USB with persistence. I had to change my BIOS settings from UEFI first to Legacy first to boot into my “saved set up”. My question is will this method work with my BIOS set at Legacy First? I don’t want to break anything.
Hi Laurie, it should be fine. You can test it this way. If when you boot from the iso you see the colored boot menu it means you have a BIOS system. If it’s only black and withe and says UEFI you’re good to go :)
Ermanno - yay! I did it. It took me a couple of attempts but I changed my BIOS start up option to EUFI first and it worked. I am so happy 😃. It has taken me years to get to this stage. My only problem now is that I have two Windows programmes that I would really like to keep access to so I am reluctant to go for a full install just yet. One of them is open source but Windows only. Perhaps you can do a video on Wine? Either way Ermanno thank you so much for this - I feel like a 71 year old kid.
Hey thank you so much for the feedback! Very happy you liked it and thanks a ton for the sub! Hope you can join the live stream on the 14th March for the Arch Linux install! Cheers :)
There is a small problem i can't see the EFI file when I assigned the Letter , also my system shows the boot folder being NTFS so how do I find the EFI file ?
When I ran the partition tool in the installer, it does not see any of my Windows 10 partitions even though I shrunk the partition down to make a 250GB allocatable space as shown in your video. The partition tool only sees the USB drive and nothing else. Any ideas why this is?
@@eflinux I am not using RAID. This is a laptop. My laptop has RST Optane Technology built in which is an Intel Rapid Storage Technology for the NVMe M.2 drive. I'm not able to turn that off in the BIOS. Would that possibly interfere?
@@eflinux I had to contact Acer to resolve the BIOS problem with changing the SATA Mode to AHCI. When I was able to do this and restarted the laptop to boot up on MX-19 Linux and went back to the installer, the entire NVMe M.2 SSD drive is now visible. Thank you!
Thank you for the video. Am running now MX 19.2 in my Surface Pro4 machine. But i noticed some screen vibration... not always..but it hurts my eye. Any suggestions..Thanks again
Well, i got some a problem for my grub bootloader... so i think my step for instalation is wrong because i can't change my partition to esp but to pbr,... and you give a tutorial in terminal emulator and boom!! my grub bootloader windows its appear ! thank you so much
Sir please help , I did the same thing as u did in this vedio but I selected mbr , now after the installation I am directly going to my windows load again and again , there no option that I can choose mxlinux , just after the restart windows is starting
Nice tutorial, thanks!!! I'm getting the following error trying to assign a letter, "Assigning or removing drive letters on the current boot or pagefile" Would you know what should I do, I'm still getting MX Linux when booting and I have only two Volumes, C(boot) and not letter (System). Thanks in advance
This video was awesome! Can this be accomplished with the use of 2 separate disks (One for Windows and one for MX)? I have just subscribed to the channel!
Thank you so much for your subscription! Yes it’s definitely doable. You just would choose the second disk for the install, but be careful to still install the bootloader in the Windows efi partition.
Did everything accordingly but i have error at %95 saying grub failed to install. Kicked me back to first step. I think it tried to install grub to usb live. (Sdb2 (3.2 Mb vfat - EFI-LIVE) there were no other options for ESP. Gotta research for that. Classisc linux errors start to even when you install it.. :/
That’s probably the BIOS of the motherboard. Some manufacturers disable booting from another bootloader. You’ll have to look into your BIOS settings and see if there’s an option for that.
@@eflinux Thanks for the help , though I have solved it and it's running perfectly fine. I have the little question that can we add more space or the partion to the existing one like I have 70 gb for mx Linux can I allocate more space (more 30gb) to it without any booting issue or problem . Pls suggest any solution
Hallo Ermann, i did just as you said but my mx linux refuses to install as ESP. Installing as MBR and the other one it does not see the Grub. What now?
Yes you can, but then you'd have to install the GRUB bootloader not in the Windows EFI partition, but on its own partition. Then you can log into Windows and use a program called EasyBCD and there you can add an entry to GRUB in the Windows bootloader. Hope it helps! Cheers :)
Good morning, sorry for the bad translation but I don't know English well. Great guide, I installed MX Linux Ver.23 on Win 11 without problems. The operating systems work very well I only have one problem if I choose Windows Boot Manager from Grub at the next boot Grub no longer starts but only Win 11 starts. To start MX Linux I have to press F9 to enter the boot Manager, select the EFI file and navigate until I find the grubx64.efi file and MX Linux starts. To make the Grub menu reappear at PC startup I have to repair/reinstall the Grup in the Windows EFI partition from Linux and everything works. However, if I choose Windows Boot Manager again the problem repeats. I have a HP 15s-eq2xxxx laptop. Thanks for any help.
Yes you can, you need to decide where to install the bootloader though. If you install it in the Windows efi partition you can then choose your OS at boot. Otherwise you create an extra efi partition on the second disk you’ll have to choose the OS from the BIOS.
I know diskpart is in Windows 7 too. But haven’t tested it myself I can’t really confirm how this is working. I assume however is not very different than with Windows 10.
question would this be the same as with windows 7 ? I got a old laptop but want to dualboot 386 version of MXlinux would I basically follow the same steps?
Great presentation. I did not follow your steps and install 10ed MX without thinking, now it only boots into MX. how do i force it to boot into Win 10 tt wayo remove MX and redo the whole instalation the right way?
@@eflinux Hi Erman, thanks i understand but when i dit a apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade it did not want to boot after that. It goes as far as error: stmbol 'grub_calloc" not found, second line: grub rescue> what do I do?
If you want to boot back into Windows you can try and see if you have an option in the BIOS to do that, or use a Windows 10 installation disk and trying repairing the bootloader.
Hi, I am getting an error: cannot create more then 4 primary partitions when i run the partition tool in mx linux( i already allocated 100bgb of memory). Please help.
That’s a limitations of MBR systems. It means you are trying to create more than the system allows. In a MBR system you can have max 4 primary. If you need more you’ll need to have 3 primary and 1 logical partition where you can specify multiple volumes.
@@eflinux Thanks for the quick reply, I am a noobie but correct me if I'm wrong, say I merge my local disc c and local disk d to a single partition, will it solve the problem?
Hello, I need help..? I have dual-boot laptop with Windows 8.1 and MX Linux 19.3 Yesterday, I installed Windows 10 in space where Windows 8.1 was. I then ran Boot-Repair on DVD to repair Grub boot loader. Now my boot in O/S Selection shows: MX Linux 19.3, then Advanced Opts for MX Linux, then Memory Test, the Windows 10 (on dev/sda1) and then Windows 10 (on dev/sda2). Both Windows options do not work, they open and display half of Windows screen and the other half is pixelated graphics bars non-readable. I did sudo update-grub.. it finds my two Windows options plus the other opts... How can I fix this to open Windows 10...? Thanks in advance...! =) James......
Hi James, I’m not sure what the problem is. The fact Grub is showing two Windows installs is odd. Probably Grub still sees remains of Windows 8 and the new Windows 10. Mayb what could help is a manual reinstallation of MX, but I can’t guarantee it’s going to work.
@@eflinux I used a Program called EasyBCD.exe in Windows I created a boot menu for the two Systems, it worked but Grub kept coming up also, So i had to select the Option twice. I Took out Grub, then lost MX-Linux boot option, So I reinstalled Windows 10 and ran my Boot-Repair DVD in Failsafe...it's all fixed now.....?????
I followed these instructions, rebooted, chose windows boot loader to get into indows to check it was intact, and it opened up windows but after rebooting again it only opens up windows and the grub menu does not appear at all. I do not get the option to open in Linux. Do I need to go to bios to change boot order ?
There are many parameters that can affect the behavior of grub. You might want to look into the Bios and make sure other bootloaders than Windows are allowed.
Excuse me, I've installed MX Linux on my second drive D: and I've installed grub on the 100 MB boot partition (I can also find the MX Linux folder in the boot partition using your trick with Task Manager) but, when I boot the PC, it starts windows 10 directly, without showing grub menu. How can I fix it?
That is normally due to the fact that some motherboard bios doesn’t allow to boot any other bootloader than windows. There might be an option in BIOS to allow other bootloaders to work. Probably under some security settings.
Hey Bud is there a video that you can make or had make on how to clean up the boot manager? I have been trying out some different distros and I have ubuntu,Pop os and other distros showing in my boot options even tho i have already delete the partition
Hi there! You might want to look toward the end of this video to see that: ruclips.net/video/L1B1O0R1IHA/видео.html - However, be extremely careful what you delete in the EFI partition or you might end up with an unbootable system. Ermanno
While this worked very well on HP eliteone 800 desktop, however, on HP pavillion G6 laptop, the installation went smooth but next boot is still controlled by Win 10 system boot manager ... even on uninstall .. the Grub was there as well as Mx Linux partition but it cannot boot except from Win 10 boot manager. Any suggestion to solve this PLEASE ... Many thanks in advance
It is possible on this specific laptop there is a setting on the BIOS which does not allow by default to boot other boot loaders. Check your BIOS and see if there's a setting for that.
@@eflinux I tried it, it seems that the UEFI is controlling the 1st boot, but it conflicted with Grub, and Windows retained its normal boot once I deleted the Mx Linux partition (didn't need other steps) ... however, I tried Linux Mint, and followed almost exactly your steps .. it worked and Windows UEFI still 1st to boot ... BUT .. if I press F9 to enter boot menu, I scroll down to the legacy "boot from Notebook hard disc" instead of UFEI "OS boot loader" that is 1st in list ... only then I can log in into Linux successfully. Now the dual boot works fine with option Thanks again ... your tuto guided me to this solution ....
Can you help me to set grub as default bootloader I tried tp do from windows 10 bcdedit /set {bootmgr} \EFI\MX19\grubx64.efi But it doesn't work and gives error incorrect parameter
Hi... I did exactly as you said and installed MX LINUX. But after the MX restart it boots to windows. Then I went back to one-time boot menu and selected MX. Then also the system says something about a hardware problem. Please help.
There was another comment regarding the same problem here(Didn’t see it before😇). I went on and read your reply. I changed my BIOS security settings as you mentioned there. It worked! Thanks man.
will this still work the same if I get a dedicated SSD for linux separate to my WIndows 10 SSD? Can I still use grub like this and switch between easily on boot? I assume when I load up the USB live environment, I would then select the full unallocated drive in the partition manager and allocate using the same settings but the whole disk? And then I select auto install using entire disc?
Hi! Thanks for your question. You definitely can! If you install MX Linux like that, just make sure to select the right disc for the installation, but make sure the GRUB installer goes into the Windows EFI partition. Cheers :)
@@eflinux ok thanks. Yeah I don't want to accidentally overwrite my windows drives. I currently have 3 different drives for windows but I plan to add a 4th for linux. So I install grub to what is the C drive in windows?
You'll have to select the EFI Windows partition. As a reference, have a look at this video ruclips.net/video/RsrPrA8NJHk/видео.html - It is with Arch Linux, but it explains the concept of where to install GRUB in the EFI Windows partition. Let me know how it goes! Cheers :)
I am going to explain a very easy and silly solution to this problem which I found in a comment of a video on EasyTechs YT channel This sol. will most certainly work for only those who did the same mistake as I did which is: I had dual booted my laptop with win 10 and MX LINUX, After around a month I realised that I don't use it. So one fine day I decided to get rid of the linux from my system to free up some space and improve loading times. To do so I simply opened the disk management tool and deleted the partition in which I installed the Linux and thought work is done. But no. I should have deleted the grub as well because at the time of boot, Grub was trying to find out the linux partition, which I deleted and there was no way for me to boot into windows hence I was searching for solutions and almost all of them had the same steps which were in the end to finally use the bootrec /fixboot but in my case it said Access denied. Now coming to the solution: step 1 Reboot the system. Step 2 Open Bios menu by pressing F2 or Del and if that doesn't work check what works for your pc/laptop producer. Step 3 Look out for Boot menu in this page. Step 4 Choose the windows version on the page. You will now boot into your windows machine but the work is not over yet, as If you don't remove the grub now also you will have to follow these steps everytime to boot in windows To remove grub: you can either watch a video which I have linked from EF - Tech Made Simple, skip to 7:40 to remove grub ruclips.net/video/GycNpMZOQ88/видео.html&ab_channel=EF-TechMadeSimple I strongly recommend to follow the video but if you are a mad lad you can follow the steps which I write again these are from the video linked above and all respect fot that dude. You can follow these steps:- Step 1 Open windows powershell in admin mode Step 2 Type Diskpart Step 3 list volume Step 4 select vol [The vol number in which your boot files/ grub is installed] Now since this step is crucial I want you to give full attention while identifying the volume To do so you can first open disk management and check which partition says Healthy(EFI partition) this is your volume note the size of this partition and select the vol which has equal size in powershell among all the volumes If in disk management you don't see a partition with such tag look out for system reserved healthy space or similar check the above linked video to be more clear After selecting the vol in step 4: Step 5 assign letter=A: if you have a drive with A assigned you can choose any character such as b c d e f g ...... After this step: Step 6 Open task manager Step 7 Choose File Step 8 Click on Browse Step 9 Choose the partition which you just created Step 10 Open EFI Step 11 Delete the os from there in my case it was linux you will have to delete the one you installed other than windows Step 12 In powershell type remove letter=A or the char You used. That's it Reboot and hopefully you will be logged in like normal way you used to. If this helped please copy and paste this comment on every video you searched the solution from. Aryan Tripathi, A Indian doing what an Indian does. XD
@@eflinux installation at 95 %then the message shows failled to install grubbootloader to the harddisk I tried boot repair tool but not worked for me.and then I installed linuxmint debian edition 4 succesfully as per this video
Hey Matthew, you install GRUB in the Windows EFI directory, making sure first there is a /boot or /boot/EFI partition in MX Linux and that the Windows EFI partitions is mounted there. I don't recall the CLI installer in MX Linux, so I am not sure you have these options. As I said before, GRUB has to be installed in the Windows EFI partition. May I ask why you are forced to use the CLI?
That’s why. When you install in a second drive the boot loader should be installed in the EFI partition where windows is installed. You can see on the video on how to install Linux on a second drive. The process works for MX as for any other distro :)
Good info! I’m new to Linux but gave it a try with installing for the dual boot with MX Linux. After the update & upgrade, I only boot into command line. Is there a specific command to change this so when it boots up, the main MX GUI page displays?
@@eflinux Sorry for the late response. Been trying to learn more about what's going on. I DO see the 'Welcome to MX-Linux!" screen which gives the option to select: -MX 19.2 patito feo -Advanced options for MX 19.2 patriot feo -Memory Test (64-bit UEFI) -Windows Biit Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p1) -System setup At the bottom of the screen is "Press 'e' to edit selected entry" When I select the first (or the second), it displays a loading green bar with a green MX background. It looks like it's about to start up then the screen takes me to a black screen the displays: "Welcome to MX Linux! Powered by Debian." "Login: " I don't know what to enter from here, but I don't end up on on the GUI home screen. Does this makes sense now? Thank you for your willingness to help!
EF - Tech Made Simple I have a Thinkpad using NVIDIA T1000 4GB. Ah, yes...I watched a video from SuperUser Sudo, I think, who gave instructions using the “nouveau.modeset=0” added to the instructions under “Linux” section. He was using Ubuntu and had the same issue. He said this is a common problem for anyone using NVIDIA GTX (or other model) graphics card. After he wrote that in, he was able to boot up to the GUI then went into one of the folders to download drivers for the NVIDIA. Problem solved. However that did not work for me.
It seems to be the T1000 is a tricky card. The only option I can think of is the bumblebee driver. Probably this post might help you: www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/fizcer/a_short_manual_on_how_to_get_p1_gen2_with_t1000/?
Perhaps if you are looking for another guide can go through Linux install with an existing Windows 10 install, but install Linux on a separate disk. I think having the OS on different physical disk is always safer.
Hi! Yes, it’s definitely an great alternative if you can install 2 disks in your system. I’ll surely touch this in a guide in the coming weeks. Thanks!
That means it is stored into another folder. You might find it under other folders than the ones I mentioned, or another solution to reset the Windows 10 boot loader is to follow this guide: neosmart.net/wiki/fix-mbr/
There has to be some boot options in the BIOS. Also, make sure secure boot is disabled. One it's disabled try enabling legacy boot options in the BIOS and the USB stick should be available.
@@eflinux yeah still not there. Btw I'm following the guide and my system just booted straight to windows after the install. I didn't know what to do with the usb so I just burned the OS on there with Rufus and left it with default settings is this where I went wrong?
Thank you for a great step by step. I've been running MX Linux since 2014 and I've forgotten most of what i knew about Windows. I used to be a good XP guy but that was many years ago.
Recently got a new Win 11 laptop and finding lots to learn to get MX running on my HP17ryzen. A nice box but a learning experience.
Thanks again, for a great job leading a Windows newby by the hand.
One of the Best reviews I have seen! Well done, straight forward and well explained
Thanks!
Have to say, this was one of the best vids on explaining Duel boot with Windows. I am though a real Noob where Linux is concerned, so I was not too sure when you mentioned Diskparted during the vid. I could not understand where that came from, or does the linux Distro have it already. I hope that makes a bit of sense. None the less, it was a great vid. Thank you so much.
Hey Jimmy! Do you mean diskpart?
@@eflinux Hi There. Yes I did mean diskpart. After this Noob tried installing this brilliant Distro, I came accros that word later on. Alas, because I am an oldy And a noob, I did not actually manage to install it off the usb , this time. I am going to go through the replys below and se if they had similar problems and how they finished it.All the best.
Best tutorial ever i have seen. Keep up the great job friend. Thank you!
Hey thank you so much!
Thank you Ermanno and greetings from Canada...keep up your great work..much appreciated..
Fantastic... greatly helped me to solve the problem in which the uefi directly booted to windows boot manager...
Run that sudo update grub everyone...it will save you some unnecessary frustration....Thanks man great video
Glad it helped!
Very clear, easy to follow and useful & I rate ***** . Lesson to those posting junk on U Tube.
Only 3 stars?
Great video, good idea of making both installing and removing MX linux 😊
Thanks! 👍
Nice video, this is just what I've been looking for.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback! I'm happy it helped :)
best Video to explain multiboot W10 and LinuxMX 👍👌 great...thank you 👏 cheers 🍻🍻
I wish I had seen this video a couple years ago before messing up my laptop. I got it to work, but it was a mess.
Formatting right following your tutorial!
Hey glad it helped!
@@eflinux Damn it helped. I made a clean install of Windows, and then MX Linux on my dead laptop. Came back to life, better than ever. Thanks a lot!
glad to hear that!
Great job, as expected from EF. Thanks for this!
Thank you for simple and clear tutorial, is really helpful, now MX is on my laptop, thank you again.
Thanks for this! Your clear explanation gave me the courage to finally try dual booting my Win10 laptop. I followed these steps to dual boot AntiX Linux - the process was practically identical.
After the initial reboot, it went straight to Windows and I got worried, but it turns out the installation created a new entry in the UEFI boot menu and I just had to change the boot order :)
Glad I could help!
This is working with MBR too, I follow your steps but ESP was not able for me idk why. But well... Just THANK YOU SO MUCH BROO, A big hug tu U, I was afraid to do this, I'm really a noob with linux.
Hey! Thanks for your feedback! Yes, with MBR it works a little differently, I might do a tutorial about that as it seems many people are using MBR. Glad it helped you out! Cheers :)
Definitely is the best tutorial on youtube. Excellent, thank you.
Thank you!
Many thanks for this excellent neat tutorial
It solved hidden problems for me ...
Glad it helped!
You have filled me with the confidence I need to attempt this. An excellent tutorial👍
Hey Laurie! Thanks for the feedback! Let me know how it goes :)
EF - Tech Made Simple - Hi Ermanno, I have shrunk the volume on my Windows PC and have a new partition. Before I go ahead with the installation of MX I have a question to ask you:-
I have a live USB with persistence. I had to change my BIOS settings from UEFI first to Legacy first to boot into my “saved set up”.
My question is will this method work with my BIOS set at Legacy First? I don’t want to break anything.
Hi Laurie, it should be fine. You can test it this way. If when you boot from the iso you see the colored boot menu it means you have a BIOS system. If it’s only black and withe and says UEFI you’re good to go :)
Ermanno - yay! I did it. It took me a couple of attempts but I changed my BIOS start up option to EUFI first and it worked. I am so happy 😃. It has taken me years to get to this stage. My only problem now is that I have two Windows programmes that I would really like to keep access to so I am reluctant to go for a full install just yet. One of them is open source but Windows only. Perhaps you can do a video on Wine? Either way Ermanno thank you so much for this - I feel like a 71 year old kid.
That's great! So glad to hear that! I'm exploring the possibility to make a wine video :)
grreat video Ermanno! Thanks for making this for all. I've sub'd
Hey thank you so much for the feedback! Very happy you liked it and thanks a ton for the sub! Hope you can join the live stream on the 14th March for the Arch Linux install! Cheers :)
Thank you for a great job.
God bless you
Thanks!
if i dont diable windows fastboot option mx linux or other distros can see my windows boot in efi folder isnT it?
Very good straightforward tutorial btw... Thank You!.
Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it!
There is a small problem i can't see the EFI file when I assigned the Letter , also my system shows the boot folder being NTFS so how do I find the EFI file ?
Great sum up, thanks a lot!
Thank you very much for the Video. My System is running very well and I am happy.
Hey thanks! Very happy it worked out!
When I ran the partition tool in the installer, it does not see any of my Windows 10 partitions even though I shrunk the partition down to make a 250GB allocatable space as shown in your video. The partition tool only sees the USB drive and nothing else. Any ideas why this is?
It is just a guess, but it is probably because how your system is set up in the BIOS. Make sure storage is in AHCI and not raid.
@@eflinux I am not using RAID. This is a laptop. My laptop has RST Optane Technology built in which is an Intel Rapid Storage Technology for the NVMe M.2 drive. I'm not able to turn that off in the BIOS. Would that possibly interfere?
@@eflinux I had to contact Acer to resolve the BIOS problem with changing the SATA Mode to AHCI. When I was able to do this and restarted the laptop to boot up on MX-19 Linux and went back to the installer, the entire NVMe M.2 SSD drive is now visible. Thank you!
Great! Glad you could solve it!
Thank you for the video. Am running now MX 19.2 in my Surface Pro4 machine. But i noticed some screen vibration... not always..but it hurts my eye. Any suggestions..Thanks again
That might be a driver issue. My best bet would be the MX forum, specifically relating to the Surface, which can be tricky to configure in Linux.
Fantastic tutorial. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Wish I had find this before I messed up my dual boot lol but now I know what I did wrong. After deleting MX linux I didn't do that diskpart thing.
THANK YOUUU VERY MUCH SIRRRRRRR !!!!😭😭😭 YOU're A HERO
Thanks!
Well, i got some a problem for my grub bootloader... so i think my step for instalation is wrong because i can't change my partition to esp but to pbr,... and you give a tutorial in terminal emulator and boom!! my grub bootloader windows its appear ! thank you so much
Sir please help , I did the same thing as u did in this vedio but I selected mbr , now after the installation I am directly going to my windows load again and again , there no option that I can choose mxlinux , just after the restart windows is starting
So you installed the bootloader on the mbr instead of the esp?
@@eflinux yes sir , but later I fixed it with easyBcD app , now everything is fine
Ok great!
Nice tutorial, thanks!!! I'm getting the following error trying to assign a letter,
"Assigning or removing drive letters on the current boot or pagefile"
Would you know what should I do, I'm still getting MX Linux when booting and I have only two Volumes, C(boot) and not letter (System).
Thanks in advance
can this method remove distros other than mx linux?
can i use this method to remove other Linux distro also?
for removing grub I usually delete its entry from BIOS I don't know which one is better.
This video was awesome! Can this be accomplished with the use of 2 separate disks (One for Windows and one for MX)? I have just subscribed to the channel!
Thank you so much for your subscription! Yes it’s definitely doable. You just would choose the second disk for the install, but be careful to still install the bootloader in the Windows efi partition.
@@eflinux thank you both I am out of doubts
Did everything accordingly but i have error at %95 saying grub failed to install. Kicked me back to first step. I think it tried to install grub to usb live. (Sdb2 (3.2 Mb vfat - EFI-LIVE) there were no other options for ESP. Gotta research for that. Classisc linux errors start to even when you install it.. :/
If you do manual partitioning you can select the windows efi partition to install GRUB into.
I have don't every thing exactly same , but I can't find the options screen for mx Linux or windows to open .
I direct endup going into windows
That’s probably the BIOS of the motherboard. Some manufacturers disable booting from another bootloader. You’ll have to look into your BIOS settings and see if there’s an option for that.
@@eflinux Thanks for the help , though I have solved it and it's running perfectly fine. I have the little question that can we add more space or the partion to the existing one like I have 70 gb for mx Linux can I allocate more space (more 30gb) to it without any booting issue or problem . Pls suggest any solution
You should be able to do that from within Mx.
@Ganesh Bhandarkar how you fix it ?
saying thank you not enough for you . I lost my windows many times for this distro lol
Hallo Ermann, i did just as you said but my mx linux refuses to install as ESP. Installing as MBR and the other one it does not see the Grub. What now?
I’m not sure I understand your question. The installer should detect if you’re on a UEFI or MBR.
Is it possible to use Windows Bootloader instead of Grub for dual booting MX Linux?
Yes you can, but then you'd have to install the GRUB bootloader not in the Windows EFI partition, but on its own partition. Then you can log into Windows and use a program called EasyBCD and there you can add an entry to GRUB in the Windows bootloader. Hope it helps! Cheers :)
when i write sudo update-grup Windows boot manager not showing !! any help ?
Good morning, sorry for the bad translation but I don't know English well. Great guide, I installed MX Linux Ver.23 on Win 11 without problems. The operating systems work very well I only have one problem if I choose Windows Boot Manager from Grub at the next boot Grub no longer starts but only Win 11 starts. To start MX Linux I have to press F9 to enter the boot Manager, select the EFI file and navigate until I find the grubx64.efi file and MX Linux starts. To make the Grub menu reappear at PC startup I have to repair/reinstall the Grup in the Windows EFI partition from Linux and everything works. However, if I choose Windows Boot Manager again the problem repeats. I have a HP 15s-eq2xxxx laptop. Thanks for any help.
Can I install Linux os in other harddrive other than disk c(boot ,system disk)?
Yes you can, you need to decide where to install the bootloader though. If you install it in the Windows efi partition you can then choose your OS at boot. Otherwise you create an extra efi partition on the second disk you’ll have to choose the OS from the BIOS.
Is it necessary to disable fast startup?
It is advised.
@@eflinux i have follow what you did had some trouble (i accidentally remove the usb drive 🤦🏿♂️)but it worked just fine thank you
Thanks alot for a very usefull video.
you save my life man osam vidoe , but i have a question ?
*is this method work with other Linux like kali,mint etc?...
Probably not exactly the same procedure.
@@eflinux i known it🙁
Awesome tutorial
So, when he booted into MX, he ran "update", then "upgrade", why not "dist-upgrade"?
Does the diskpart thing works on Windows 7 too? Because the fat32 didn't appear when I tried it. 🤪
I know diskpart is in Windows 7 too. But haven’t tested it myself I can’t really confirm how this is working. I assume however is not very different than with Windows 10.
After install mx linux, grub menu is not showing. System starting in windows 10. What should I do for that ? Plzz help
Try to look into your BIOS if there is a setting for that. Some motherboards don't allow other bootloaders by default.
question would this be the same as with windows 7 ? I got a old laptop but want to dualboot 386 version of MXlinux would I basically follow the same steps?
I guess so, but I am not 100% sure, as I never tested it. If the partitioning scheme is the same, it should work.
Thanks. Quite clear.
Great video,thank you
Great presentation. I did not follow your steps and install 10ed MX without thinking, now it only boots into MX. how do i force it to boot into Win 10 tt wayo remove MX and redo the whole instalation the right way?
You can still recover Windows but booting into MX, opening a terminal and doing sudo update-grub.
@@eflinux Hi Erman, thanks i understand but when i dit a apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade it did not want to boot after that. It goes as far as error: stmbol 'grub_calloc" not found, second line: grub rescue> what do I do?
If you want to boot back into Windows you can try and see if you have an option in the BIOS to do that, or use a Windows 10 installation disk and trying repairing the bootloader.
Hi Erman, i got it to work. booted from a live usb and then did a grub update
Can boot into either MX or Win 10
Thanks for your help
Gfeat! Glad it worked!
Hi Ermann, is there a way to dual-boot MX Linux with Win 10 - the other way around as you have described it?
Do you mean MX Linux and then Windows? I am sure it is, but haven't tried it myself.
Hi, I am getting an error: cannot create more then 4 primary partitions when i run the partition tool in mx linux( i already allocated 100bgb of memory). Please help.
That’s a limitations of MBR systems. It means you are trying to create more than the system allows. In a MBR system you can have max 4 primary. If you need more you’ll need to have 3 primary and 1 logical partition where you can specify multiple volumes.
@@eflinux Thanks for the quick reply, I am a noobie but correct me if I'm wrong, say I merge my local disc c and local disk d to a single partition, will it solve the problem?
If those are both primary partitions then yes, you basically have one less.
@@eflinux Thanks Ill try that..
Great Info... Thank you so much!
Hey thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked it :)
Hello, I need help..? I have dual-boot laptop with Windows 8.1 and MX Linux 19.3 Yesterday, I installed Windows 10 in space where Windows 8.1 was. I then ran Boot-Repair on DVD to repair Grub boot loader. Now my boot in O/S Selection shows: MX Linux 19.3, then Advanced Opts for MX Linux, then Memory Test, the Windows 10 (on dev/sda1) and then Windows 10 (on dev/sda2). Both Windows options do not work, they open and display half of Windows screen and the other half is pixelated graphics bars non-readable. I did sudo update-grub.. it finds my two Windows options plus the other opts... How can I fix this to open Windows 10...?
Thanks in advance...! =) James......
Hi James, I’m not sure what the problem is. The fact Grub is showing two Windows installs is odd. Probably Grub still sees remains of Windows 8 and the new Windows 10. Mayb what could help is a manual reinstallation of MX, but I can’t guarantee it’s going to work.
@@eflinux I used a Program called EasyBCD.exe in Windows I created a boot menu for the two Systems, it worked but Grub kept coming up also, So i had to select the Option twice. I Took out Grub, then lost MX-Linux boot option, So I reinstalled Windows 10 and ran my Boot-Repair DVD in Failsafe...it's all fixed now.....?????
Great Vid
I followed these instructions, rebooted, chose windows boot loader to get into indows to check it was intact, and it opened up windows but after rebooting again it only opens up windows and the grub menu does not appear at all. I do not get the option to open in Linux. Do I need to go to bios to change boot order ?
There are many parameters that can affect the behavior of grub. You might want to look into the Bios and make sure other bootloaders than Windows are allowed.
@@eflinux thanks mate, will see what i can do.
Excuse me, I've installed MX Linux on my second drive D: and I've installed grub on the 100 MB boot partition (I can also find the MX Linux folder in the boot partition using your trick with Task Manager) but, when I boot the PC, it starts windows 10 directly, without showing grub menu. How can I fix it?
That is normally due to the fact that some motherboard bios doesn’t allow to boot any other bootloader than windows. There might be an option in BIOS to allow other bootloaders to work. Probably under some security settings.
Hey Bud is there a video that you can make or had make on how to clean up the boot manager? I have been trying out some different distros and I have ubuntu,Pop os and other distros showing in my boot options even tho i have already delete the partition
Hi there! You might want to look toward the end of this video to see that: ruclips.net/video/L1B1O0R1IHA/видео.html - However, be extremely careful what you delete in the EFI partition or you might end up with an unbootable system. Ermanno
does your instructions apply to the latest version 19.2?
I did not test it, but I assume the installer didn’t really change since 19.1.
Hey can you help please it stuck on udev done
Make sure you disable secure boot in the BIOS.
While this worked very well on HP eliteone 800 desktop, however, on HP pavillion G6 laptop, the installation went smooth but next boot is still controlled by Win 10 system boot manager ... even on uninstall .. the Grub was there as well as Mx Linux partition but it cannot boot except from Win 10 boot manager.
Any suggestion to solve this PLEASE ... Many thanks in advance
It is possible on this specific laptop there is a setting on the BIOS which does not allow by default to boot other boot loaders. Check your BIOS and see if there's a setting for that.
@@eflinux
Thank you ... will check it and see 👍
@@eflinux
I tried it, it seems that the UEFI is controlling the 1st boot, but it conflicted with Grub, and Windows retained its normal boot once I deleted the Mx Linux partition (didn't need other steps) ...
however, I tried Linux Mint, and followed almost exactly your steps .. it worked and Windows UEFI still 1st to boot ... BUT .. if I press F9 to enter boot menu, I scroll down to the legacy "boot from Notebook hard disc" instead of UFEI "OS boot loader" that is 1st in list ... only then I can log in into Linux successfully. Now the dual boot works fine with option
Thanks again ... your tuto guided me to this solution ....
Can you help me to set grub as default bootloader
I tried tp do from windows 10
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} \EFI\MX19\grubx64.efi
But it doesn't work and gives error incorrect parameter
You can do that by logging into MX terminal and type update-grub.
@@eflinux still not working
Make sure your BIOS allows you to boot other bootloaders than Windows. It might be a security setting.
easy to follow thanks
Hi... I did exactly as you said and installed MX LINUX. But after the MX restart it boots to windows. Then I went back to one-time boot menu and selected MX. Then also the system says something about a hardware problem. Please help.
There was another comment regarding the same problem here(Didn’t see it before😇). I went on and read your reply. I changed my BIOS security settings as you mentioned there. It worked! Thanks man.
That’s great!
Dear sir Give me a solution for mxlinux 19.1 is not shutting down completely. Every time I need to press power button for complete shut down.
Hi! First thing make sure the system is up to date and try again.
will this still work the same if I get a dedicated SSD for linux separate to my WIndows 10 SSD? Can I still use grub like this and switch between easily on boot? I assume when I load up the USB live environment, I would then select the full unallocated drive in the partition manager and allocate using the same settings but the whole disk? And then I select auto install using entire disc?
Hi! Thanks for your question. You definitely can! If you install MX Linux like that, just make sure to select the right disc for the installation, but make sure the GRUB installer goes into the Windows EFI partition. Cheers :)
@@eflinux ok thanks. Yeah I don't want to accidentally overwrite my windows drives. I currently have 3 different drives for windows but I plan to add a 4th for linux.
So I install grub to what is the C drive in windows?
You'll have to select the EFI Windows partition. As a reference, have a look at this video ruclips.net/video/RsrPrA8NJHk/видео.html - It is with Arch Linux, but it explains the concept of where to install GRUB in the EFI Windows partition. Let me know how it goes! Cheers :)
I am going to explain a very easy and silly solution to this problem which I found in a comment of a video on EasyTechs YT channel
This sol. will most certainly work for only those who did the same mistake as I did
which is:
I had dual booted my laptop with win 10 and MX LINUX, After around a month I realised that I don't use it.
So one fine day I decided to get rid of the linux from my system to free up some space and improve loading times.
To do so I simply opened the disk management tool and deleted the partition in which I installed the Linux and thought work is done.
But no. I should have deleted the grub as well because at the time of boot, Grub was trying to find out the linux partition, which I deleted and there was no way for me to boot into windows hence I was searching for solutions and almost all of them had the same steps which were in the end to finally use the bootrec /fixboot but in my case it said Access denied.
Now coming to the solution:
step 1 Reboot the system.
Step 2 Open Bios menu by pressing F2 or Del and if that doesn't work check what works for your pc/laptop producer.
Step 3 Look out for Boot menu in this page.
Step 4 Choose the windows version on the page.
You will now boot into your windows machine
but the work is not over yet, as If you don't remove the grub now also you will have to follow these steps everytime to boot in windows
To remove grub:
you can either watch a video which I have linked from
EF - Tech Made Simple, skip to 7:40 to remove grub ruclips.net/video/GycNpMZOQ88/видео.html&ab_channel=EF-TechMadeSimple
I strongly recommend to follow the video but if you are a mad lad you can follow the steps which I write again these are from the video linked above and all respect fot that dude.
You can follow these steps:-
Step 1 Open windows powershell in admin mode
Step 2 Type Diskpart
Step 3 list volume
Step 4 select vol [The vol number in which your boot files/ grub is installed]
Now since this step is crucial I want you to give full attention while identifying the volume
To do so you can first open disk management and check which partition says Healthy(EFI partition) this is your volume note the size of this partition and select the vol which has equal size in powershell among all the volumes
If in disk management you don't see a partition with such tag look out for system reserved healthy space or similar check the above linked video to be more clear
After selecting the vol in step 4:
Step 5 assign letter=A:
if you have a drive with A assigned you can choose any character such as b c d e f g ......
After this step:
Step 6 Open task manager
Step 7 Choose File
Step 8 Click on Browse
Step 9 Choose the partition which you just created
Step 10 Open EFI
Step 11 Delete the os from there in my case it was linux you will have to delete the one you installed other than windows
Step 12 In powershell type remove letter=A or the char You used.
That's it
Reboot and hopefully you will be logged in like normal way you used to.
If this helped please copy and paste this comment on every video you searched the solution from.
Aryan Tripathi, A Indian doing what an Indian does. XD
Thanks for sharing this!
@@eflinux it's my pleasure.
Excellent! Thank you.
Grub boot loader install failled at the time of install of MX Linux.Now all Linux install in harddisk is failling how to fix this issue
Any error message?
@@eflinux installation at 95 %then the message shows failled to install grubbootloader to the harddisk I tried boot repair tool but not worked for me.and then I installed linuxmint debian edition 4 succesfully as per this video
Something the installer didn't pick up correctly. Difficult to say.
man, I'm forced to install with the cli-installer, and there where i have to install grub? MBR or root? I use UEFI
Hey Matthew, you install GRUB in the Windows EFI directory, making sure first there is a /boot or /boot/EFI partition in MX Linux and that the Windows EFI partitions is mounted there. I don't recall the CLI installer in MX Linux, so I am not sure you have these options. As I said before, GRUB has to be installed in the Windows EFI partition. May I ask why you are forced to use the CLI?
@@eflinux becaus4of my gpu (1650 super) is not supported by the kernel mx Linux comes with. So I can't get to the desktop.
I understand. Let me know if I can help you further:)
@@prdobymat That's why I keep a cheap graphics card around .
I was able to install mx linux alongside with my windows 10 on a different drive. but now I cant find the boot record for MX19.
Hi Michael! In which partition you chose to install the boot loader?
@@eflinux on my 2nd drive D:
That’s why. When you install in a second drive the boot loader should be installed in the EFI partition where windows is installed. You can see on the video on how to install Linux on a second drive. The process works for MX as for any other distro :)
Good info! I’m new to Linux but gave it a try with installing for the dual boot with MX Linux. After the update & upgrade, I only boot into command line. Is there a specific command to change this so when it boots up, the main MX GUI page displays?
You mean you don't see GRUB when you boot the computer?
@@eflinux Sorry for the late response. Been trying to learn more about what's going on. I DO see the 'Welcome to MX-Linux!" screen which gives the option to select:
-MX 19.2 patito feo
-Advanced options for MX 19.2 patriot feo
-Memory Test (64-bit UEFI)
-Windows Biit Manager (on /dev/nvme0n1p1)
-System setup
At the bottom of the screen is "Press 'e' to edit selected entry"
When I select the first (or the second), it displays a loading green bar with a green MX background. It looks like it's about to start up then the screen takes me to a black screen the displays:
"Welcome to MX Linux! Powered by Debian."
"Login: "
I don't know what to enter from here, but I don't end up on on the GUI home screen. Does this makes sense now? Thank you for your willingness to help!
That sounds like a graphic card issue. What card do you have?
EF - Tech Made Simple I have a Thinkpad using NVIDIA T1000 4GB. Ah, yes...I watched a video from SuperUser Sudo, I think, who gave instructions using the “nouveau.modeset=0” added to the instructions under “Linux” section. He was using Ubuntu and had the same issue. He said this is a common problem for anyone using NVIDIA GTX (or other model) graphics card. After he wrote that in, he was able to boot up to the GUI then went into one of the folders to download drivers for the NVIDIA. Problem solved. However that did not work for me.
It seems to be the T1000 is a tricky card. The only option I can think of is the bumblebee driver. Probably this post might help you: www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/fizcer/a_short_manual_on_how_to_get_p1_gen2_with_t1000/?
Perhaps if you are looking for another guide can go through Linux install with an existing Windows 10 install, but install Linux on a separate disk. I think having the OS on different physical disk is always safer.
Hi! Yes, it’s definitely an great alternative if you can install 2 disks in your system. I’ll surely touch this in a guide in the coming weeks. Thanks!
i cant find EFI folder
You mean when removing grub?
@@eflinux yes
That means it is stored into another folder. You might find it under other folders than the ones I mentioned, or another solution to reset the Windows 10 boot loader is to follow this guide: neosmart.net/wiki/fix-mbr/
Thank you so much
Why my flashdisk not detected in bios? I try to format & burn iso again and again, but it doesn't work
Sorry bad english
Maybe some UEFI settings aren’t allowing that. Try disabling secure boot.
@@eflinux i have disable it, but still same error
Is that a USB stick?
@@eflinux yes it is
There has to be some boot options in the BIOS. Also, make sure secure boot is disabled. One it's disabled try enabling legacy boot options in the BIOS and the USB stick should be available.
can i apply this REMOVAL method on any linux distro if i'm using UEFI ??? please reply...
Yes, but you have to be careful to the folders you delete as every distro saves the grub folder differently.
can you do one for osx?
Hi there! It's already on the channel :)
wonderfull, lot of thanks.
You’re welcome!
Genius
If MX linux is so good why would anyone want to remove it?
You wouldn't :)
Thanks
You’re welcome :)
Quite complicate to remove the grub. There should be an easier way
I installed it on a 2nd drive
I meant 5 Stars.
I dual booted my Windows right into the dumpster.
GAK BISA BAHASA ENGGRESSS
Be better to BOOT Windows to the trash...
i cant find fast startup anywhere in bios or in boot settings or in the power options
Fast startup should be in the Windows power options.
@@eflinux its not there i checked
@@eflinux if i still just go with it is it a guaranteed issue ill be facing or just maybe ill run into one
Be aware that fast startup is in the old system setting -> power options in Windows 10.
@@eflinux yeah still not there. Btw I'm following the guide and my system just booted straight to windows after the install. I didn't know what to do with the usb so I just burned the OS on there with Rufus and left it with default settings is this where I went wrong?