DualBoot with windows
Hello ! i tried to install blend os in dualboot with windows but i didn't succeed. I followed all the steps in the doc, everything went well but when I reboot I can't boot on blend os because it seems grub isn't installed. Can you help me?
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The dualboot windows guide clearly states that is it unfinished
@lonewolf it works. Atheist for me. I manged to quality boot but by no means am I someone that's knows all the answers. I just figure out work worked. I believe @SvGaming right as the guide does state that so i added a another partition after the blend os install like garuda or something and bam all OS where there. That's the only way I got it to work.
@LoneWolf
Can you show me how you do it ?
I created 2 partitions for boot and system and check flags for boot partition as boot and it worked. You can try that
How i can check flags ? Sorry but i'm not an expert
Right click on the partition
Manage flags
Then check the boot option and ok
On gparted ?
Yess sorry for late reply
ok thx, i will try and tell u if it's work
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Sure
This are the partition in my system, hope this will help you
@Mrugendra Kulkarni I didn't succeed, the system partition is created but the boot partition is empty.
manually install grub
On the boot partition ?
yeah
use the mutifier if nessescary
https://git.blendos.co/asterisk/blendos-mutifier
(If anyone wants to contribute then I'll move this to Github)
- To use
mutifier, run sudo system install gum beforehand.
- mutify-cli requires no extra dependencies and is used as such:
mutify-cli <mount-point> [other-mount-point], ex. mutify-cli /usr/Did u have a tutorial plz ?
nope, just follow the archwiki
do it from a chroot
dualbooting is a bit more difficult so you need this kind of knowledge
sorry
We're making a guide but I don't know what methods work
Ok i will try
Very complicated for a 3 min install
it's just because rs hasn't added dualboot support
Retry and open the gparted with the install ui only, and refresh the partitions, before that completely delete them it may be the issue
Or you can try the above one too
I try to manually install grub on the boot partition, who can show me how to do it ?
@LoneWolf I'm no specialist or anything and havent figured out grub yet. But I have found this out what ever grub garuda or arch uses and how it installed works.
I had windows installed on machine then I partitioned my drive for 2 more OS's. I then installed blend os first then I install garuda and all of them show up in grub. hope it helps
Oh ok i understand, but i don't have enough storage to dualboot with 3 os
Then I suggest learning how to install grub manually. I havent learned that much about it other then know when its broken.
I'm stuck here lol
what your disk space
512 mb for boot partition and 50gb for the blend os system partition
have you tried Windows Boot Manager to load to blend
When i select it i boot on windows
And my windows doesn't find my blend because it's ext4
Try with bios options where we have used to boot to usb
MUO
How to Replace GRUB With Windows Boot Manager
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Ok i will try
i tried but when i go on linux i can't select anything
I would just go with a different distro till they complete it.
I made the same post while back and uh they promised to make dualbooy guide finished but so far im still waiting for them to finish the dualboot guide
I really wanna use this over vanilla os
Even they dont got dualboot support đ
Well now I donât know what works for dualbooting
lol
i want to install blend os alongside with my windows install
Yeah a lot of people do
yea
But the problem is Rudra made this a bit difficult
Iâm not sure how on earth youâd get GRUB working with os prober
oh
Mhm I see
With the immutability and all
yea
So my best guess is to do it manually
Which is going to be hars
Hard
Thatâs what the guide would say
Itâs partially finished
yea
i saw it
Just have to get to the actual bit where you fuck with GRUB
true
aight goodluck with that man
I just donât know how as the mutifier changes are overwritten on updates
i mean
you can research?
many topics on stackoverflow
or reddit
I know how on arch
this is new
oh
@Tarf, you've gained the level
1because I need to edit potentially read-only configs (/etc should be read-write) to enable os-prober, while also installing it
Just use refind
Anyone that wants to dual boot.
sudo system install refind
reboot
sudo refind-install
reboot and make sure refind is selected as boot option in bios/uefi
It works with every distro/ Windows next to BlendOs?
@âMorganâWeedmanâ
Yup it's refind
Because I have the same problem with pop os as main OS
I use it as my primary bootloader and then sideload whatever from it
Never used refind
Basically you would boot to it
Do you delete boot partitions and grubs ?
@Vickes, you've gained the level
1Then it will give you the option to boot to grub or windows
Nope
Just install and run refind-install and then change it to primary boot device
How it works ? I have difficulty to understand how bootloader, boot partitions, grub works
So most of the time you have 2 partitions
EFI/boot and your operating system
Yes I understand that, but I wanted to understand how it works
And you have your bootloaders in the EFI partition and then it will lboot you to each os
But grub isn't already a bootloader ? I know refind can do "chain" but why not ignore grub and direct start pop os (for windows I understand because it's proprietary code and I think it work better with window launcher)
You can directly boot from refined
You can skip grub
Ok nice
But I tend to stick with using it as a chain loader
Ok! Thanks for the solution.
Np it's very easy to use
It's a nice gui too and you can theme it easily.
@âMorganâWeedmanâ, you've gained the level
2That's the theme I use
have you actually tested this
Yes
No different then any other distro because it doesn't do anything on the immutable part
I've said this since this post was made đ
Maybe not this one actually but I did tell someone somewhere in here about it a while ago
Somewhereeeeee innn theee discorrrddddd
yes, but when do you run this
post-install or a chroot
Oh just post install
Just like any other system package
sudo system install refind
This will get the installer for you
though if GRUB doesn't work post-install you'd be screwed đ
and you'd have to use a chroot anyway
This all happens within the distros
Sorry I misunderstood
You install the distro as Normal
This doesn't touch grub
Step 1: install blend and reboot into os
Step 2: sudo system install refind
Step 3: reboot
Step 4: sudo refind-install
Step 5: change boot to refind in bios/uefi
yeah I meant if grub breaks and prevents step 1
rebooting into the OS post-install
for some it happens
If that happens it's nothing to do with refind
and how would you do step 5
everybody's UEFI is different
Naw they are all the same hahah just different looks
not really
for example my UEFI looks like it's from 2005
and the way options are organized is always different
some people can't add UEFI boot entries manually
You don't đ¤Ł
It's all done automatically
From refind
refind is installed, but "change boot option to refind" is not very descriptive
where?
In the bio/UEFI
and is refind UEFI only?
I think so.
I'll test your method on real hardware
It works
I used it day 1 of blend install because I have a windows install I need to use đ¤Žđ¤Žđ¤Žđ¤Žđ¤Ž
I have to try it
I won't be trying to dualboot, but like any bootloader, it should work with a single OS
Oh yeah, it will work with a single os. Like I was saying to buddy above, you can actually boot directly to os skipping grub
So I've had times where grub breaks and it will let me boot.
Also works with btrfs snapshots đ
we use ext4 by default, so not too useful for most
Yeah I know that just for people who do use btrfs
@âMorganâWeedmanâ with refind i can dualboot blend os and widnows ?
Yes lol
nice, i will try it
@LoneWolf, you've gained the level
1I have confirmed this works
đ
@âMorganâWeedmanâ Thank you. I learned something great today
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@âMorganâWeedmanâ docs changes pushed, they're building
built
I used rEFInd to finish the dualboot guide
probably needs some polishing
Nice awesome to see! I'll check it out
I installed it now.
Are you sure that I have to "sudo refind-install" ? When i reboot (step 3) i already have refind asking me for what distro i want to launch
if refind is alr there you're fine
Ok... I have refind and BlendOS is not here. I checked all and it's not here
And refind deleted my UEFI (wtf ?) i cannot go to uefi/bios setup at boot
@âMorganâWeedmanâ@ďžä¸ď˝˛äšĺ°şďžä¸ăş
Don't know what you did. If you followed steps all will work. I doubt it broke anything as it makes its own files and doesn't touch any of yours
Did you do sudo refind-install?
Send a picture of what your boot menu looks like @Vickes
@âMorganâWeedmanâ I did what you say. With sudo apt install refind, it auto install it (like refind-install) so I haven't done it.
When I reboot, it freeze on black screen when I go on UEFI setup (I have to fix that urgently), boot menu and refind work, but no BlendOs entry.
I did what you say
Sudo apt?
Yes
I'm on pop os
Ok so first send me a picture of what it looks like when u boot
Also do Sudo refind-install
When I boot it go to refind
It's not recommended
Not for ubuntu based distro
Yes it is right there. Linux and Mac os
Lol
Just do it
If you're using Linux or macOS, and if you can't or don't want to use a distribution package file, the easiest way to install rEFInd is to use the refind-install script.
Search for this on the page
If you're using Ubuntu, you should be able to install using the PPA as follows:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install refind
Just do what I said untill then I can't help you. If you do t do what the manual is saying then idk bud
I said refind work but no BlendOs entry.
sudo refind-install
Yes so run the command
sudo refind-install
The manual say that Ubuntu user don't have to sudo refind install because it do it automatically when using apt
Maybe it didn't do it properly
So do it again
It says success and all work for refind
Did you rerun the command?
Just blendos is not here
No
Bruh
sudo refind-install
Copy and Paste
If no boot files I don't know how refind going to find blendos
Didn't change anything
Did you run it?
And rebooted?
Yes
Are you sure đ
I just did it
Are you really sure
Yes I say I just did it
Are you really really really sure
:risichoc2:
Yeah
How sure are you?
Very
Really really really really really sure?
Lol I'm just messing with ya
Um
Yeeeeeee
Let me see your bootmenu?
My bootmenu have refind, and pop os entry
I have to go to work
Ok
We can continue this evening
This. Is. Not. Ubuntu.
.... I use pop os that is based on Ubuntu.
I didn't talk about blendos
I use pop os to install refind, because I don't have access to blendos
@âMorganâWeedmanâI'm here if you want, tell me
Idk bud I have zero problems and I've been using refind for years
ok no problem, but me yes
i do what you say and it didn't work
np but don't tell its always work
Let me see your boot menu.
Refind or UEFI boot menu ?
Both actually would help
@Vickes
ok, i'm at work, i send u pics tonight
@âMorganâWeedmanâ
Just reinstal blend you must have broke something
already two times I installed it
and it's like that everytimes
That's that's a problem on your end not bend
Blend
it doesn't install files on the boot partition... i check it by mount the boot partition and nothing on it
it's blend
BlendOS have a problem to install files on boot partition
2 installations and he doesn't add files
I deleted BlendOs, sorry but too many bugs for the moment. I'll retry on the next version
Don't know bud I've had zero problems
@âMorganâWeedmanâ no worries, it's not your fault
ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Are you using automatic partitions or manual
Manual because I do dual boot
Automatic erase all harddisk
no way to fix?
Can you boot without refind to blend?
See I'm thinking you are not installing it correctly
for me no, I think some files are not correctly installed
if you talk to me no, i unintalled blendos đŚ , I installed it correctly. Just it don't install /boot files
Can you boot after installing? If not then you didn't install correctly
What if its a legacy bios system?
I meant like its on a 10 year old laptop, which doesn't have EFI support afaik, will that work?
Nobody has those anymore
I do :(
Turn off Legacy mode or upgrade and stop living in the past
Theres reasons why one might not upgrade. I think mine is valid.
I can only just wait till someone else can find a solution
ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
You can use blend without dualbooting
Blendâs grub supports legacy systems
in my case when i try mount boot partition (i have 2 boot partition, one is the main (250mb) and another created by me for dualbooting) it says /mnt/boot/efi not found
In the image in the guide it shows 6 partitions and the boot and system being both ext4 are you shure this is correct?
Boot should be fat32
anyone know how to shrink disk size in blendOs .I cannot create a new partition
shrink the disk from a livecd in gparted
It's not working