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Suppose that I have slackware (64-current) installed on a SSD, with no bootloader installed), and a computer with windows 10 only.
Is it possible (and how) to connect the slackware SSD on the win 10 computer, and make dual booting avalaible ?
where is the ssd laying around at now? if it is still plugged in then install lilo, or grub, put it in the other. and tell BIOS to boot from that hdd, then update your lilo, or grub to add windows.
Or you can see if grub can detect everything and set it up automatically (you will need to find out which device is your EFI partition and replace $EFI-PARTITION with that entry, like sda1 -- if you need help with this, let me know):
Code:
update-grub
grub-install /dev/$EFI-PARTITION
Or if that doesn't work, you can set up a manual entry in grub using /etc/grub.d/40_custom (this will require finding the UUID of your Windows partition and replacing the $UUID variable -- you can find that using blkid):
Code:
menuentry "Windows 10" --class windows --class os {
insmod ntfs
search --no-floppy --set=root --fs-uuid $UUID
ntldr /bootmgr
}
Thank you for the answers.
I just wanted to know if it is possible to do the same as for slackware on an USB stick (i.e. nothing ?), if instead of connecting an USB stick I connect a SSD on SATA or pciexpress.
Thank you for the answers.
I just wanted to know if it is possible to do the same as for slackware on an USB stick (i.e. nothing ?), if instead of connecting an USB stick I connect a SSD on SATA or pciexpress.
Yes, it will work. You'll probably need to use your computer firmware's option to select the desired startup disk. And the external disk will still need a boot manager like Grub. Make sure you install Grub to that external disk, and maybe skip using osprober to find other OSs, since the SSD will basically be a removable and shouldn't boot first anyway.
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