Dual Boot Windows and Linux With rEFInd

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[RaihanGill]

The coincidence of this video's release in unbelievable. Just finished setting up Arch and Win 11 install and currently watching this to have rEFInd installed haha

[BrunodeSouzaLino]

It's important that you disable any other drives with OSes or install Windows first. Windows loves to install its bootloader in all drives or install it in a drive which is different than the one where Windows is on.

[zebop]

In the end, I decided that the complication of trying to get this to work with Secure Boot enabled was just too much so I gave up. Grub may not look pretty but it does at least work. Of course I could disable Secure Boot, which seems to be heavily controlled by Microsoft. I'd be interested to know what others think about that.

[thegreatboto]

I used rEFInd years ago when I managed/supported a lab of iMacs at a college where they wanted them to dual boot MacOS and Windows so the lab could be used by multiple departments more easily. Handy tool for the use case.

[zebop]

Very happy to learn about this. I still have a dual-boot setup although Linux is pretty much my daily driver for everything. Still find occasional things to do in Windows world though. This looks like it'll make the system a bit more user-friendly.

[davidg]

Been using rEFInd for over a decade to triple-boot my intel MacBook Pro (macOS, Linux, Win). It's been better for the job than any other boot manager I've tried. Every now and then an OS update breaks it but all you have to do on the MBP is restore boot (command+r during boot), go to the terminal, and run the rEFInd install command and it's back to working perfectly again.

[RobertPendell]

The 16MB is for System Recovery. It's what loads when you go into recovery mode. They later expanded that to 500MB as they needed more space.

[yorkshireplumbing]

Pretty cool. I've heard the best way is to not mix bootloaders because it can all go wrong and leave you in a pickle, so best to install on different drives and use boot select menu to jump into a Linux install, leaving Windows bootloader as the default. Have you ever had a Win/Linux dual boot go bad and leave you up the creek without a paddle?

[chaosman]

You find some really cool tools. Good job on showing it and using it. Just installed it, (along with multiple OS install :) ) And it's great. Good job, keep it up.

[sheldonkupa]

Good video, spread the message👍👏 I use this since 5 years, have it on any machine, also intel mac. The flexibility, adoptibility and the option to goto bios or boot from usb is the great great advantage over any other bootmanager. What this also offers is to boot kernels from the root fs directly, great if you lose your efi partition or restore linux root fs on another machine. Just adopt fstab. I install linux on one machine, set it up to my needs, and then transfer the root partition with gnome disks to all my machines and boot with refind.

[dktol]

The EFI System Partition (ESP) should have already been mounted at /boot/efi in Ubuntu 22.04.

[metatrongroove]

been looking for a graphical interface for grub for years. awesome man!

[solehindie]

holy crap this solve my dual boot problem. had to manually enter boot via F key. install rEFInd on linux and bamm! Boot like a charm!

[a]

Refind is the best dual boot I've ever used. Grub keeps getting cancelled by Microsoft Windows

[webslinger]

Used refit a long time ago on a macbook white 2010. Windows 10 and 11 however, keeps on installing the 320M nvdia graphics driver causing my system to boot loop. Finally used Opencore with Big Sur. Everything worked after it automatically patched the drivers. Breathed new life to my macbook.

[freddiaz]

I did this on an old MacBook I had and managed to get a triple boot: MACOS, Win11, and Mint! Cool video.

[dredoki]

This is a very concise and quick tutorial. 10/10

[turbocoupe]

Dual booting Windows 11 and Linux doesn't require and software. Just install UEFI Linux on a drive separate from the Windows drive. Tell the install to use the Windows bootloader to start. The motherboard now handles the selection. With Windows 10, on startup, the first screen would be a selection screen.

[alfredgomes]

Hi there,
As you Demonstrated the rEFInd for dual boot(multiple os in single drive),
Q: Is there similar kind of solution for boot option/drive manager?
(what I mean is my PC going to have multiple drive, each drive will have only one os. so one drive for windows, one for linux desktop and one more for gaming distro.)

[amortalbeing]

This was unexpectedly surprisingly good Thanks. didnt think I'd enjoy this