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Here we go again: Leave that damn windows bootloader alone. Create new partition for the new bootloader, set it as default boot partition. When booting choose "

Here we go again: Leave that damn windows bootloader alone. Create new partition for the new bootloader, set it as default boot partition. When booting choose "Windows boot mgr" in GRUB (may need to run osprober), it'll work fine. This way windows can keep it's bootloader healthy, and you can boot to both OSes.

thaumaturgy 3y ago
Appreciate the advice, but I have no interest in booting Windows and would rather not keep its boot loader. On the exceedingly rare occasion that I need Windows for something, a VM is far more convenient than a reboot.
- ipdashc 3y ago
  Hm, I'm confused- why you do not just wipe the Windows install entirely then?
  - thaumaturgy 3y ago
    I do, but that requires either successfully booting something else or pulling the drive. Manufacturers are making it incrementally harder to successfully boot something else. Pulling the drive is still an option, but it turned out that I didn't have the right NVME adapter and one wasn't available locally, and in any case, if you do that and still can't get it to boot, then you have to have a backup image of the drive or you're really SOL. If the device still boots Windows in any condition, I can still return it to the retailer as a plan Z.
    - ipdashc 3y ago
      I'm afraid I'm totally lost. Do you not just plug in a USB drive with a Linux ISO, hit the key combo for the boot menu, and boot off the USB? Maybe you need to disable secure boot in the BIOS/UEFI, but that's about it, no?