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    Installing Grub bootloader on Windows 10

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by etcetera, Jul 12, 2017.

  1. etcetera

    etcetera Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the MSI Titan GT80S SLI with the following configuration:

    512GB SSD M.2 2280: Windows 10, primary boot disk
    512GB SSD M.2 2280 : Wndows 10 clone disk of the above, used as a backup boot disk
    1TB SSD M.2 2280: - Linux to be installed here
    1TB HDD: Windows data disk

    For some reason, the 3rd M.2 2280 SSD does not appear as a bootable device at all. In BIOS. How does Grub get configured to point to this third SSD once Linux installed on it?
     
    etcetera, Jul 12, 2017
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  2. Vasudev

    Vasudev Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Does it come with @Prema BIOS? If so, you can disable other drives and enable only the disk you want to install Linux.
    I'd windows partitioning to create 3 partitions:
    1. one 500MB for grub efi aka ESP
    2. Linux root partition
    3. page file/swap set to 512MB
    You need to install bootloader to ESP to work correctly.
     
    Vasudev, Jul 14, 2017
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