Make Grub find a Windows partition

Posted: 2024-04-07 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I have Linux installed on sda and Windows 10 installed on sdb. Both disks are EFI and I want to make Grub add Windows to the boot menu.
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Disk partition labels

Posted: 2023-09-30 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

That’s something I never had the habit of doing… labeling my disk partitions. However, I’d like to make things a bit easier to remember. After searching a bit, I came up with the following. I was doing a fresh install of Slackware and was going to format the partitions anyway.
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EFI and Grub

Posted: 2022-11-30 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

I’ve been tinkering with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M80Q. I disabled secure boot and since there is no legacy mode in the BIOS, I decided that it’s time to install Slackware with EFI. However, after the install was done, ELILO failed to boot the OS. So, I decided to use Grub.
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ELILO dual boot

Posted: 2018-02-09 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , , , | 4 Comments

I use a computer that has to have Linux and Windows 10 installed in parallel. Windows came pre-installed and requires UEFI… Therefore I went through Slackware’s instructions “To use UEFI, or not to use UEFI?” before installing Slackware. I told the installer to use ELILO and upon reboot, the system booted straight to Slackware. I installed Slackware -current, but that’s a separate story… Now I want to have the option to dual boot Windows and Linux.
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