August Windows Update Breaks Linux Dual-Boots

wilts747

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Anyone running a dual-boot setup may find the following article of interest.


My personal preference is to avoid dual boot and opt for using the computers own boot menu as a more reliable method of switching between OS where practical to do so, By installing each OS on its own individual hard-drive in turn, while any other drive(s) is disconnected, then connecting all hard-drives and setting their priority of boot within the BIOS removes the need for the boot-loader and another component renowned for crashing dual-boot systems. This way the priority OS will be booted until you hit the Boot Menu key during boot-up to select an alternative, and the likes of Windows, Linux or any other OS are kept well separated. Individual drives can still be partitioned and the partitions formatted in a format acceptable to all OS i.e. exFAT to enable data sharing etc. Peter
 
Agree. Never dual boot on my Mac. I do however have an old mid 2011 Mac mini Server running the latest Mac OS Sonoma (14.6.1) via Open Core Legacy Project/Patcher. I have 10 different Linux distros and an old Mac OS snow leopard server ready in VirtualBox VMs as virtual machines. VMs are easy to setup/upgrade/backup/spin up new or replace and also toss out, if needed. I'm sure others will appreciate the article you posted.
 
Anyone running a dual-boot setup may find the following article of interest.


My personal preference is to avoid dual boot and opt for using the computers own boot menu as a more reliable method of switching between OS where practical to do so, By installing each OS on its own individual hard-drive in turn, while any other drive(s) is disconnected, then connecting all hard-drives and setting their priority of boot within the BIOS removes the need for the boot-loader and another component renowned for crashing dual-boot systems. This way the priority OS will be booted until you hit the Boot Menu key during boot-up to select an alternative, and the likes of Windows, Linux or any other OS are kept well separated. Individual drives can still be partitioned and the partitions formatted in a format acceptable to all OS i.e. exFAT to enable data sharing etc. Peter
Good to know, this is one of situations where Win does not play together well with others OR do they really test their updates properly before deploying.
 
Good to know, this is one of situations where Win does not play together well with others OR do they really test their updates properly before deploying.
That's good to know. I haven't done this in years and I use Virtual Box for any Linux and Solaris installs I have. I use Virtual Box because Microsoft's Hyper-V kills the performance of virtual machines to the point of making them unusable in addition to only allowing certain Linux installs.
 
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