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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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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How can I fix or back up a system after I use gparted to resize my drive and the system will not start?
I created an EFI to run Ubuntu on my mac it was working well but I didn't have enough space so I created a another partition in disk utility and then went to gparted and turned the new partition to un-...
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Why do I have a "HD" in my bootcamp screen and not macOS or similar
I have a MacBook 12 with Big Sur. I have also a Bootcamp installation with Microsoft Windows 10. When I open the bootmenu I have the following screen:
I don’t know why this label HD shows instead of ...
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Messed Up APFS/Bootcamp Partition Table
I messed up my partition table after trying to get Windows 7 Boot Camp installation bootable after being unbootable using option/alt on start up.
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At some point a few months ago, I had ...
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What's the best way to replace MacOS with Windows & Linux Dual boot?
I have had it with macOS.
I use a 2014 MacBook Air.
To use some apps I need, I had to upgrade to the newest macOS, but this slowed the computer down like crazy.
Otherwise, I stay with an older version ...
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Mac boot menu not showing recently installed Linux OS
I installed GNU/Linux Kali on my Early-2015 MacBook Pro (Mojave) by following the instructions on the Kali official website for dual boot. Linux runs fine but it boots by default. When I went to ...
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Boot from external drive using rEFInd only if external drive is connected
I'm trying to use an external drive to contain a Windows install and a Big Sur install, but I'm having trouble configuring the boot options on a MacBook Pro 2018.
I partitioned the external drive to ...
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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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What are the main technical obstacles to running macOS on iPads in the near future?
Since the new Macs have ARM chips, there is now access a build of macOS that technically could run on a device like, say, the iPad Pro? The architecture should be pretty much the same, I guess?
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Is it true that we could dual boot Mojave and Catalina, in the same APFS partition, and they don't have to have fixed sizes?
Is it true that if we dual boot Mojave and Catalina, or if we dual boot Catalina and Big Sur, we can go the traditional way of creating two APFS partitions, and each partition is one container and in ...
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Linux kernel hangs when attempting to dual boot Elementary OS on 2018 Mac
I am attempting to dual boot Elementary OS from a live USB on my 2018 Catalina MacBook Pro. After shutting down my Mac, I plug in the USB drive and start up the computer, while holding down the option ...
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Dual Boot Catalina and Pop!-OS with Data-Sharing Partition
I want to dual boot both an up-to-date version of macOS and an up-to-date version of Pop!-OS on my MacBook Pro 2016 without T2 chip. I am currently running macOS Catalina. Can somebody comment on the ...
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Triple boot Catalina 10.15.7, windows 10 (not bootcamp but NTFS), Ubuntu 20.10
I am using a 1 TB SSD with a macbook pro 2012 initially split into 2 x 500g: Catalina and Windows 10 NTFS (NON bootcamp partition). To install Ubuntu, I had to use the Catalina partition because the ...
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Remove GRUB from macOS Catalina
So I installed Ubuntu on an external disk via my MacBook Pro 2016 with a USB flash. Now whenever I try installing another Linux distro such as Pop_OS I see the GRUB loader complaining about a bunch of ...
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How to prevent the battery capacity degrading using a PowerBook G4 with Ubuntu 16.04?
I have a 2005 PowerBook G4 which I dual-boot Mac OSX 10.5.8 and Ubuntu 16.04 XFCE. The 'book runs both OSs quite well but I have noticed that using Ubuntu has the effect of reducing the battery ...
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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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rEFInd installation won't boot due to T2 security, despite T2 security being disabled
I've been trying to install rEFInd with --ownhfs on my Macbook Air 2019, but booting into it results in Recovery Mode starting with the message
A software update is required to use this Startup Disk.
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How to dual boot Ubuntu and macOS without rEFInd?
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my MacBook Air 2019 with Catalina 10.15.6. However, my MacBook has the secure boot feature which doesn't allow rEFInd to work at all and I'm not feeling comfortable to ...
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Dual boot Mac with Ubuntu using rEFInd - removed Ubuntu by deleting partition and now Mac won’t boot
I had installed Ubuntu on Mac with rEFInd dual boot. I was able to use it until I thought to remove the Ubuntu.
I deleted the Ubuntu Partition from drive, and then thought it will just remove Ubuntu ...
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Installing Ubuntu 20.04 on external drive with iMac running macOS + Windows 10
I have a late 2012 iMac running macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) and Windows 10 (Build 18362) through Bootcamp in legacy BIOS mode and I'd like to do a full install of Ubuntu 20.04 to this external drive ...
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Big Sur beta on external disk vs internal disk?
I've read this question: Remove macOS from a APFS container? and this question: APFS - Is it possible to install 2 macOS versions inside one APFS container?
It seems there is a little bit more mess to ...
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Wierd problem after doing a triple boot OS-X, UBUNTU 20.04, KALI-LINUX
I've successfully did a triple boot on my Macbook-pro but somehow even after creating separate EFI partitions, all my grub files ended up in the first EFI partition. So I separated them manually.
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Every Ubuntu update breaks rEFInd on my MBP
Every time when I'm updating Ubuntu with:
apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade
I've needed to do this in MBP recovery mode:
mkdir /Volumes/EFI
mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI
bless --...
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Best approach for: Dual boot Mac OS and Win 10 And shared files volume
I've got a somewhat older macbook pro (mid 2014) and it starts lagging. And since I'm working professionally on it I'm thinking of buying a new macbook or Win laptop. But since I never had a clean ...
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Is there a way to switch Mac OS boot partitions without going through System Preferences?
I have just viewed a YouTube video on how to set up my Mac as a Mojave/Catalina dual-boot, using two APFS volumes on the internal drive, instead of using a bootable external drive.
But is there a way ...
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Does Bootcamp still result in a hybrid MBR/GPT situation?
I am running Mojave still (if that matters, but could update to Catalina), and want to dual-boot Windows 10 for the odd occasion when i need to run a program that is windows only.. or debug something.....
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Dual booting, and lost rEFInd: how to recover OSX?
I mostly followed [these instructions][1] for how to set up dual-booting on my macbook, and everything seemed fine, up to the very last step. Now when I reboot the system (even if I hold command-R) I ...
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Triple boot: “Missing operating system” on Windows 10 partition after Windows update
I have a triple booted MacBook Pro (using rEFInd as boot manager). Recently I selected "Update and shut down" when finishing up in Windows 10. Since then, rEFInd still offers Windows to boot from, but ...
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Data not backed up, System not booting, Getting Error: -69845 after trying to fix bad Partition Type
A few months ago someone installed Linux on my computer using rEFInd for a project. I am using a 2015 13" Macbook Pro with 256GB SSD. The partition for linux was made to be 60GB. After the project I ...
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MacOS/Debian10 dual boot- how to delete unknown EFI partition?
I have a macbook air dual booting macOS Catalina and Debian10 buster. I hold the option key at startup to choose the system I want. In the boot manager there's this efi partition (https://imgur.com/...
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MacBook Pro partition disk0s2 cannot be mounted
I am new in the internet forums. I apologize in advance.
I believe I have a similar problem than the one described in second_step, since I am coming from a removal of Ubuntu dual boot. But the ...
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dual-boot (ElCapitan and Mojave) on a Mac Pro 5,1?
I have a 2012 Mac Pro 5,1, running El Capitan. I wish to make it a dual-boot system, El Capitan and Mojave. I understand that I must install High Sierra preliminary to Mojave, and must install a "...
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Partition type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF and drive unreachable [duplicate]
I had Ubuntu dual booted on my 2015 MacBook Pro. I tried to remove the Ubuntu partition using Disk Utility, then when I attempted to delete the Linux partitons, it is completely gone out of sight. I ...
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Windows 10 Boot Camp USB boots but throws 0xc0000225 before being able to install anything
I have a MBP 2014 15" with all the latest updates installed
I downloaded the official Windows 10 ISO 64bit (20 november 2019 update)
I verified that this ISO works, using Virtualbox
I got a new ...
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Is a Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop still natively bootable?
I am wondering if its possible to use Parallels Desktop with a Boot Camp partition while still being able to boot into Boot Camp natively if I need that last bit of performance?
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Attempted to fix macOS startup volume after failed dual-boot Linux install, but failed and now original partition unknown
Attempted to install Linux on my MacBook Pro 15" 2015 one day for school, but then the install failed and I had a GRUB issue similar to this: How do I recover/fix my OS X partition?.
Weirdest part ...
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Camptune is stuck on “Resizing volumes, this may take a while...” for the past 6 hours
I’m trying to increase the partition on my Windows partition and decrease the size of the MacOS Catalina partition by 18 GB on my 256 GB, 2014 dual-booted MacBook Air using Paragon Camptune, a third-...
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Install CentOS on MBP 2019
I am trying to install CentOS 8 on my 2019 MacBook Pro 2019 with Catalina 10.15.4. I want to dual boot either with Catalina and CentOS.
Steps so far:
Partition with 500GB for CentOS
Created a ...
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How to boot into Windows on SSD from macOS
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2018) running macOS Catalina (10.15.2). I have an old laptop that died, but that still has a (newer) functioning SSD. This SSD has Windows 10 already installed on it, ...
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(MBP 2010 13") EFI BOOT Frozen when Trying to Install Windows 10
Would like to get some assistance:
Device: Macbook Pro 2010 13"
Previously I was successfully install windows by manually create partition, format partition to hybrid GPT/MBR by following a guide. ...
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Resized macOS Partition in Windows; boots to white screen
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro and I am using Windows on Bootcamp and I tried installing Phoenix OS. Used a partition app on Windows and shrank the macOS partition.
Now whenever I start white screen shows ...
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How to boot into High Sierra from Windows without holding the alt key?
I'm running Sierra on a Mac pro 5.1 and Windows on a second SSD. So far I'm using a non EFI graphic card and I can just switch between systems through startup disk on mac/Boot Camp menu on Windows.
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MBP Not Booting After Attempted Deletion of Ubuntu Partition
I have a MBP (late 2011 I believe, running 10.12) that I had setup to run macOS and Ubuntu. I am using rEFId. I don't use Ubuntu much so I went to delete the partition last night. When I did that, ...
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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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Enlarging APFS OS Volume - Unknown partition scheme
I have my OSX install on a seperate AFPS partion, my home folder on another (HFS). In order to enlarge it I deleted a Linux partition following it, and now I get an error that it is not an AFPS device ...
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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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Install macOS, Linux, Windows in the same USB External SSD
I have a 960GB External USB SSD and I have MacBook Air.
I would like to know if is it possible to install, macOS Catalina 320GB, Windows 10 320GB, Linux CentOS 7 320GB in the same External HD.
I don’...
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Mac not showing external flash drive with turnkey linux installed
I have been trying to setup a spare iMac (iMac12,2) that I have as a minecraft server, but whenever I try to make the flash drive installer, the mac doesn't recognize the drive in the boot picker (...
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Is there a way to change the icon(s) or text from the Apple Startup Manager on the new Macbook PRO 2019?
I have a MacbookPro16,1 (2019) configured in dual-boot (MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 and Windows 10). I would like to change the icons presented on the Mac Startup Manager and, if possible, the text as well....
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Triple boot on MBP 2019 (T2)
My goal was to install onto a 2019 Macbook Pro (with a T2 chip) :
OS X Catalina
Windows 10 Pro (1)
Windows 10 Pro (2)
I managed to do so by using Bootcamp for the first Win10, and a bootable USB to ...
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