How to Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows – the Picture Book Edition

 

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6 Responses to How to Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows – the Picture Book Edition

  1. Ferenst says:

    You copied contents of ISO to a USB flash drive, but doesn’t that drive need to be pre-formatted for boot?

    • The Geez says:

      No, if I’m understanding your question correctly. Old-style legacy booting required a boot loader to be installed in the boot sector of the drive. PCs these days – and this example – are booting in UEFI mode. EFI BIOSen are filesystem-aware. All that is necessary is that the files exist and be in the right place.

      Makes things much simpler since all the required manipulation can be done with the existing user-visible tools. No explicit (or implicit via Diskpart for example) boot loader installation is required. It _is_ necessary* to format the drive FAT32.

      *Some BIOSen (not ThinkPads AFAIK) will boot other filesystems, but FAT32 is required by the EFI spec to be honored by all machines that boot in UEFI mode.

      • Ferenst says:

        How would it your procedure differ if USB flash drive needed to be NTFS or exFAT instead of FAT32.

        • The Geez says:

          If the PC in question can actually boot exFAT or NTFS media in UEFI mode, I wouldn’t expect it to be any different.

          I don’t have a PC that can boot either of those filesystems in UEFI mode. Do you? Curious to know why you ask.

          • Ferenst says:

            I ask because of FAT32 max file size limitation – conceivably, a bootable ISO would contain a >4Gb file – what then?

          • The Geez says:

            If the PC in question only recognizes FAT32 (which is required – and for the PCs I’m familiar with it’s the only option) for UEFI boot, that’s a problem. It would behoove the authors of the ISO to ensure that doesn’t happen, but …

            I’ve tripped over this before, thanks to MS weirdness. See Windows 10 USB Install Media … or MS BS

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