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Questions tagged [multiboot]

Multiboot is a process where multiple Operating Systems are installed on a single system.

Multiboot is installing multiple different Operating Systems on the same system. There are multiple reasons for doing multi-booting -

a. Want to check out new OS without harming the other system setup

b. Migrating applications and data from an existing to another.

c. A way to test software driver issues - Troubleshooting.

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Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-C829\x2dC4C1.device

I had formatted efi partition and installed windows again. I have dual boot Windows and Linux, then I installed the grub bootloader again from a live usb using these commands: mount /dev/sda* /mnt mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev mount --bind /proc…
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current question: How can I decompile an arm firmware file, to get the device tree file?

I am trying to flash libreelec on an android TV box without having an image I could throw in the libreelec toaster. On the RPi it was quite simple, here I guess I have to compile stuff, I don't really have the answer for. There is an Image for the…
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Triple boot with systemd-boot: How to boot Windows 10 and 11 directly without Windows boot manager?

I recently installed Windows 11 on my home PC in addition to Arch Linux but my wife isn't ready to switch until after her exams, so we keep Windows 10 around for now, leading to a very convoluted booting situation: On boot, systemd boot manager…
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Make multiboot USB containing Windows and Linux iso using a Linux PC

Is there a method to create a multiboot USB with both Windows and Linux ISO files using a Linux machine?  (Specifically, I'm on Arch Linux.) I tried multibootusb, multisystem, yumi, syslinux, etc., but couldn't find a clear guide on having both…
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Linux Multiboot with custom grub.conf, unable to boot to OS created on partitions

I have a disk partition as below for multiboot, with custom grub and used GRUB version 0.97(rhel6.10) for grub embeded to boot for correct OS. when i install OS at grub menu i am observing file not found error, Can some one help. but OS has…
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Dual boot CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 on UEFI machine

I want to build a dual boot environment of CentOS 7 and 8 on a UEFI/GPT machine. But, I encountered a EFI bootloader problem; Both CentOS 7 and 8 installers put their bootloaders in the same place: \EFI\centos. So, the previous one will be…
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Multiboot USB purely Linux - No third party software

Is it possible to create a multiboot USB for Linux distributions, purely from Linux, without third party software? NOTE: this is a self-answered question. I wanted to share my methods with the Linux community.
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Is it possible to install a *brand new* linux system onto one partition directly from another?

Something like, dd an iso straight to the other partition without making a usb installer... and then updating grub? or maybe, make a virtual machine mimicking my real hardware and use the extra partion as it's hd, and then virtually boot an…
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Linking with GCC doesn't detect -fPIC flag

I am trying to link some files. Here is my command: gcc -T linker.ld -o Stack\ Berry.bin -ffreestanding -O2 -nostlib kernel.o boot.o -fPIC -lgcc How ever, I get this error: /usr/bin/ld: boot.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.multiboot' can not…
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Multi-boot Linux-mate with Windows 7, 10 & 11

I have a mini-XTA box 64b Intel with UEFI disabled. It has been running Mate, W7 & W10 for some time just fine. Mate and W7 are on one SSD and W10 is on a second SSD. GRUB finds and starts these 3 fine. So I wanted to play with W11 too. I shrunk the…
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Adding a working boot option to get to my pacstrap/chroot install on a luks partition

I know there are are a lot of questions like this but the examples I have found differ enough to confuse me, I'm hoping someone can help clarify this for me. To briefly explain my setup. I have a windows 10 install and then on a different disk I…
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How do you achieve stable rEFInd or grub multiboot for Windows MacOS and Linux with multiple drives?

I have a 250GB SSD (sda) with Windows 10 on NTFS. A second 1TB SSD (sdb) has MacOS 10.15.7 using apfs, and Linux Mint 20 using btrfs and two spare partitions using ext4. I have installed rEFInd and had multiboot all working. Maybe I was lucky but I…
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Add a Linux distro from another without USB

I'm currently dual-booting Win 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I used my last flash drive for Ubuntu and I'd like to keep it. I'd also like to try some other Linux distros such as Manjaro and Mint Cinnamon. Can I simply install one Linux distro from…
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Can a removable hard drive be used with YUMI to create a multiboot system?

So, I have a Seagate "Backup Plus" removable hard drive. I have partitioned a 1TB partition (fat32) and a 3tb (NTFS) partition. I used the YUMI software to add quite a few distributions of linux, some other network and hardware tools, AV, etc. Once…
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How to install grub for a multiboot external hard drive

I have an external hard drive which contains three primary partitions, two of them with an Ubuntu flavor each (14.04, 16.04), and the third contains just data. There is also an extended partition with a Windows 7, another Ubuntu, and a Swap…
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