Questions tagged [dual-boot]
Refers to booting more than one operating system on one computer and not using virtualization or containers.
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Bluetooth mouse won't connect, after turning Bluetooth off it won't turn back on
Fresh install of Boot Camp on macOS Mojave with a Windows 10 ISO from the Microsoft website. I'm trying to connect my Bluetooth mouse (which works fine and connects on macOS Mojave) to Windows and it ...
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How do to hibernate OS X in order to reboot to Windows 10
I have Yosemite and Windows 10 installed on my Macbook Pro 2015.
On Windows 10 I can hibernate. Then press the power button and hold down ALT key to boot from OS X.
However, I can't do the same thing ...
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Dual boot bootloader problems - Mac & Linux
I recently stumbled upon a problem with default MacOS bootloader.
The scenario is next: My Macbook pro 2012 only has one 256 GB drive from where I specified 70 GB's of space to be used as Ext4 ...
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Dual boot: can no longer update to Mojave: "Disk cannot be used to start up"
I dual boot with Ubuntu. I have had no problem updating my system over the last 4 year (3 system updates).
I now need to update to Mojave and get the error message This disk cannot be used to start ...
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Taptic engine (trackpad) stays on after shut down from Windows 10
I have an Early 2015 Macbook Pro 13-inch Model that has 6 operating systems manually installed on it (High Sierra, Yosemite, Android x86, Windows, Ubuntu and Kali Linux). As I said, I installed ...
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After trying to install Kali Linux I can't access macOS anymore
I've tried to install Kali Linux as dual boot with macOS. I've partitioned 20 GB on the side from 250 GB for that purpose but the installation didn't go as planned. So I decided to reboot macOS and ...
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How to bless a partition using a custom EFI-boot file with non-conforming directory structures and/or file names?
Is there a guide on how to bless a partition for booting, one that doesn't have the default /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi structure?
For example, I installed GRUB on the default EFI System ...
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Install Windows 10 on MacBook Pro early 2011 with faulty AMD video card
I have a MacBook Pro early 2011 which suffers the well known problem with the AMD discrete graphic card. There were artifacts on the screen, therefore I decided to disable it by entering some commands ...
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Install custom Windows 10 iso via Boot Camp
I am running a non-retina 15' 2012 Macbook Pro with Mojave 1.14.4. I had some apps for work that I can only run on Windows but I am not willing to download the full Windows 10 with all the bloatwares ...
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Always start the Mac to Startup Manager without having to press and hold the Option key
I frequently switch between mac OS and Bootcamp.
So I was wondering if there is an option to not have a preferred Startup Disk and always start to the Startup Manager, like you would get when pressing ...
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Booting linux from usb on macbook pro 2019
I've got linux iso installed on a bootable usb and boot it from refind which works fine. But when I choose to install ubuntu in the grub menu I get a black screen.
After some digging online I read ...
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UBUNTU on MacOS, windows already installed
I am installing UBUNTU on my MACOS Mojave while windows 10 is already installed through bootcamp. I've tried the instructions in Installing Ubuntu on Mac with macOS and Windows already installed but ...
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Dual GPU switching on a MacBook in Windows dual-boot (without using Boot Camp)?
I am experimenting with a 2013 MacBook Pro and its capabilities, and have set up a Boot Camp partition. This works quite well with the applications that I need to run on Windows natively which use ...
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Does resetting NVRAM reset EFI Boot Order?
I've had a Macbook Pro for a year or so now and have experimented with quite a few Linux distributions which have added and changed things in the EFI Boot Order. I am looking to clean things up. The ...
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Install High Sierra on a dual booted MBP [Mac 10.11.6 and Windows 7]
I have a Late 2011 13" MBP running OS X El Capitan 10.11.6.
I needed to run some windows apps on my lappy so I used Boot Camp Assistant to partition --the only storage disk my laptop-- a 250 GB SSD ...
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Internet Recovery - No progress
I am trying to use internet recovery to install OS X Yosemite and dual boot it with High Sierra on my 2015 model 13-inch Macbook Pro, but I’m having some issues. I can boot into Internet Recovery, can ...
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Bootcamp partition won't boot MacOS beta
I created and used a Windows 10 Bootcamp partition on my retina MBP 2013 running MacOS 10.12.2 about a month ago. I recently returned from a three week trip (I left my laptop at home) and installed ...
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MacBook Pro : Dual-boot
I need to dual boot on CleanOS on a MacBook Pro
I installed ClearOS but at the boot I only boot on the Grub, when Command key is pressed I also have OSX
I tried to install rEFIt, but without success,...
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Unable to Boot MacBook using any means after attempted Fedora Install
Wondering if anyone has any last ditch efforts I can try here to salvage my macbook!
I recently attempted to install fedora to dual boot on my Late 2011 Macbook Pro, the install crashed, the ...
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Dual-booting a Linux distribution on a Mac with Fusion Drive
I'd like to install a Linux distribution alongside OS X on my 2014 5k iMac with a 3TB Fusion Drive (128GB SSD + 3TB HDD).
Most guides about dual-booting Linux I've found focus on regular partitioning,...
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Does Windows Server 2012 R2 work with Bootcamp on MacbookPro running Mavericks?
I am trying to figure out if I can run Windows Server 2012 R2 as a boot camp partition with Mavericks. What drivers should I use? Are there any issues?
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Accidentally deleted OS X partition
I was installing Windows 7 using bootcamp on my iMac machine and accidentally deleted the main OS X partition while doing that. So now I when I start the machine I see only an option to choose windows ...
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Dual boot Yosemite and Big Sur (HFS, APFS and other potential challenges)
I'd like to use a clean install of the latest Big Sur (11.4 or 11.5) on a machine that currently has Yosemite installed. I'd like to keep using Yosemite due to some legacy apps/licenses.
Ideally I'd ...
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imac will not boot from installer usb drive or go into recovery mode
I have a 2014 27" imac which keeps crashing with kernel panics, or stops half way on loading bar and restarts.
It is Running Catalina with a fusion drive setup.
I have tried recovery comm + R but ...
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What is nvme0n2 on MacBookPro13,1?
While trying to install (dual-boot) Pop!_OS 20.10 I found /dev/nvme0n2 of size 8KiB on my MacBookPro13,1 which made the live-installer of PopOS crash just before loading the partitioning page and the ...
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Performance effect of dual-booting with APFS partitions
I have a 2013 iMac with a fixed disk, not an ssd. For unrelated reasons, I dual-boot it with two separate copies of macOS Catalina that share space in the same APFS container. Without knowing much ...
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Merge missing disk partition on a Macbook
I tried to install a Linux distro on a partition in my macbook, but it didn't go well so i want that partition to merge it to my main partition of the OS, but in the disk utility doesn't appear. If i ...
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Remove broken Ubuntu partition on macOS
I started with partitioning my MacBook Pro for using Ubuntu and macOS. The ubuntu-partition is kinda broken so I want to delete the partition. I tried to do this though disk utilities, but I cannot ...
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Nvidia eGPU compatibility with a 2015 MacBookPro running a DualBoot (Ubuntu 16.04)
My question is very specific, but I hope someone has already encounter a similar problem.
I want to use a Nvidia eGPU, GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti with my early 2015 MacBook pro (Thunderbolt 2 only).
I ...
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Macbook shows ssd but volumes are gone after failing partition
Okay so i had two volumes. One was 225gb osx and other 25 gb ubuntu. My ubuntu space was running low so i wanted to resize the partition. I clicked on osx volume and resized it. I gave ubuntu 100gb ...
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How to restore Startup Manager Bootcamp option to point at Windows partition - GRUB overrided Startup Manager when Ubuntu installed
For getting macOS, Windows 10 and Ubuntu as boot options at start up, I:
ran Bootcamp to install Windows 10. The result was macOS and Windows options available as boot options - when the option-key ...
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Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF on Macbook Air; gpt add error
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I recently installed Kali Linux onto my MacBook Air 2015, and shortly after, realized that I needed to install Refind to get the full functionality. I deleted the partition, which is 20 Gb, ...
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Booting to OSX on Secondary Drive Disables User Input
I have two A1297 17" MBPs. The first is a 2010 and the second is a 2011.
Encountering graphics card issues with the 2011, but needed to use both computers until I take the time to sit down and switch ...
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Linux on Mac, dual-boot without rEFind EFI issues
So I followed the instructions here
This actually worked great. I was able to install ubuntu and the dual boot is working, however, in my startup window I have a dummy Windows option that boots to ...
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How to suppress warning about unreadable disks?
I have a dual boot machine, High Sierra and Windows 10. I have 4 disks in a software RAID created in Windows. Every time I boot macOS, it warns me that these disks are unreadable and must be ...
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Importing Linux and Windows Dual Boot from Parallels
I am looking at triple booting my Mac soon with macOS, Linux and Windows. I also want Linux and Windows available as a virtual machine. At the moment, I have Windows dual booted and have imported it ...
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Bootable USBs no longer appear at startup
I recently had my Macbook (early 2015) reset after a bootloader mess up I won't get into. When I got it back I found that it would no longer show bootable USBs at startup in the boot menu even though ...
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MacBook Pro can boot from USB drive, iMac cannot
I wanted to create a Windows 7 installation on a USB drive for my iMac, so I followed these instructions. Basically, they allow you to create a bootable USB drive with Windows installed on it without ...
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Can't disable csrutil
I want to disable SIP with the command csrutil disable on my OS X 10.11.5.
I tried it many times, got in the recovery mode and typed in csrutil disable.
I got the message:
Successfully disabled ...
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refind : No bootable device (Mac and linux)
I just make dual boot on my macbook pro with linux fedora. when I enter linux on refind menu, it says "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key".
I know this question has been ...
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Cannot boot into OS X after partitoning
I have installed Ubuntu on a Mac Mini, everything works great. I'm able to switch back and forth without any problems. After that, I used GParted in Ubuntu to resize the OS X partition. I then create ...
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My partition is using negative space. Should I worry?
As you can see, according to Disk Utility, I'm using negative space in /dev/disk0s7. This is obviously incorrect, however, I am slightly worried as to what this may mean for the partition's effects on ...
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How to remove unusable Ubuntu partition after upgrading to OS X 10.11?
I dumbly upgraded my Mac OS X to "El Capitan" and I F&%#ed myself. I can't reinstall rEFInd because of SIP. I can't disable SIP because my recovery partition doesn't have csrutil. I can't delete ...
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Install rEFInd on separate partition (Errors)
I am trying to install rEFInd a separate partition but have run into an error. I'm doing this because I want to install Ubuntu on my other partition (separate from my Mac and and rEFInd partition). ...
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How to add addional HFS+ partitions after installing Windows with Bootcamp
The goal is to create a few extra HFS+ partitions after running the Bootcamp utility while not breaking Bootcamp's boot-ability. I am Running OS X El Capitain, and I only have a single disk drive to ...
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rEFInd - normal OSX not showing, just Recovery HD
I just installed rEFInd (to dualboot ubuntu) and all is working well so far, with a small exception: In the boot interface the normal OSX (Yosemite) is not there, it´s just showing the Recovery HD. ...
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Does Apple's EFI patch Thunderbolt devices to Windows 10?
So, I've been rattling with myself about this for a bit. I've followed 5SH-2a's guide of EFI Bootcamp to no avail. I decided to try it on my own, by mapping an NTFS Partition on my hard drive to a ...
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How to set up a dual-boot (OS X and Windows 7/8) environment in a Mac OS X Virtual Machine?
Anyone found a way to set up a dual-boot environment (preferably Mac OS X 10.9 and Windows 7) in a Mac OS X VM using a type-2 hypervisor like Parallels or VMware Fusion with Boot Camp Assistant?
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Option key boot selector suddenly failing
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro (12 GB, several hard disks). On OS X I run Yosemtite, On Bootcamp, Windows 7. All works fine. Yesterday I installed a "new" Radeon 5770 to replace the aged (and very ...
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Mac alternative boot loader for booting legacy OS from USB
I am trying to install Windows 7 on my MacBook as a dual boot setup. I have a MacBook 7,1 running Mavericks. I have replaced the DVD drive with a SSD (now have 2 internal drives) so cannot use a ...
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