Re: Regarding dual boot
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:30:14AM +0000, Dohtre, Shekhar [HDS] wrote:
> If you want to dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution and Windows 10 Technical Preview on any computer, whether the computer has UEFI firmware or not, the Windows 10 Technical Preview installer is only capable of creating partitions using an MBR partitioning scheme. And so you should be aware of that when creating partitions for installing any Linux distribution.
> Note that this might not necessarily be the case when the final edition of Windows 10 is released. But just something you have to keep in mind before then. If you want to test-drive Windows 10 Technical Preview, ISO images are available for download here.
My understanding is that the windows installer uses MBR if booted in BIOS
mode, and GPT if booted in EFI mode. So make sure you boot it the way
you want it used. Often the boot menu has two options for booting each
bootable device. One legacy, one EFI.
> So when I created partitions to use for installing Ubuntu 14.10 alongside Windows 10 Technical Preview on the same hard drive, one of the Ubuntu 14.10 partitions had to be a (extended) logical partition. And the boot loader had to be installed in the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the target hard drive.
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Len Sorensen
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