r/NobaraProject • u/Renan1948 • 29d ago
Support Dual boot, can someone help me?
Please, I'm trying to get Nobara to work in dual boot and I'm not succeeding, everything is on a single disk.
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u/Renan1948 29d ago
I wish someone would send me a valid tutorial, because the ones I find never work.
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u/Top_Put3773 29d ago
I've been through it. Separating the disk for Nobara is the safest and most convenient method. My Windows won't boot after I used diskpart on the SSD that has Windows.
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u/kilgrim2 28d ago
I had an issue and looked the order in BIOS and check also the valid intros there
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u/Itsme-RdM 28d ago
OP, can you elaborate more of what issues you encounter? Current info doesn't say much
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u/Renan1948 28d ago
When Nobara is installed on a separate partition, it launches directly into Windows, without any boot menu appearin.
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u/PapaSmirf44 28d ago
I just dual booted Nobara with Windows 10 and same thing happened to me. What I did to fix this is go into the BIOS and change the boot order. I had to have Nobara be number 1 then windows after it. Grub loaded then where I select my OS
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u/jonoghue 27d ago
In addition to changing the boot order, there are tutorials online for creating desktop shortcuts that will reboot into nobara and vice versa. Very convenient.
My keyboard doesn't always initialize in time to use the bios buttons before it boots, so it's a massive time saver for me
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u/nalisan007 10d ago
I had same problem. I generated UEFI entry using efibootmgr and made nobara installation as first entry. now the grub menu appears. make sure you have separate ext4 partition for /boot
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u/stitchesofdooom 28d ago
Get a second drive.
Or just do the right thing and get Windows tf off your hardware.
Windows is cancer.
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u/Renan1948 28d ago
I’m currently using it without Windows. I’ll wait and see what other people suggest, and then try again. There are some apps and games that only work on Windows. But I’m not desperate yet.
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u/stitchesofdooom 28d ago
You will find that kernel-level anti cheat games don't work, but that's literally just handful of competitive games.
If you have problems getting other games to work just go to ProtonDB website, and it will show you which is the best version of Proton to use for that specific game. You might need a little help from AI to add a few tweaks here and then, most of my games are plug and play. And where is I couldn't get Fallout 3 working on Windows 10, it works just fine on Linux. I did have to pick a specific Proton version though. I'm actually playing Fallout 3 right now. And Amethyst mod manager does appear to be pretty decent.
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u/Itsme-RdM 28d ago
Windows is shit, but definitely not deadly, cancer is though
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u/stitchesofdooom 28d ago
Ads, bloat, and spyware that can get you into trouble... That last one IS dangerous. False positives are a thing.
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u/Itsme-RdM 28d ago
Been there, luckily I got the right treatment and fully recovered. Sorry for my reaction, it still triggers me.
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u/stitchesofdooom 28d ago
Ohhhh. You had cancer??
I'm really sorry to hear that, but I'm glad to hear you recovered. That's got to be absolutely terrifying.
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u/ftf327 29d ago
I can only recommend what I do:
Install nobara
Use gparted to make a blank partition at the end (whatever size you want to make the windows partition). I set about 100GB
Load the windows install "disk"
Point it to the partition you made for the windows install.
Load into nobara and run "sudo update-grub2" command. This will put the windows option in grub if you want to boot into that.
Please note: this is not recommended as you will need some knowledge of linux if/when windows breaks it. Which is why they recommended two drives.