Gonna give Linux another try, any guidance is welcome!
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Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:
1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.
Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?I would use two different disks, the one that you have already for windows and a second one for Linux. When you're ready to install Linux Unplug the windows disk, so that you can't screw it up ( been there, did that
) then when you need to use either the Linux or Windows Just choose the start up disk in bios at booting, usually F11, a tiny bit longer than dual booting, but it will save you a lot of hassle. Dual booting is rather dangerous as windows has the annoying habit of wiping Linux grub setups when updating, and Linux has the annoying habit of wiping everything, two different disks, much easier. -
I would use two different disks, the one that you have already for windows and a second one for Linux. When you're ready to install Linux Unplug the windows disk, so that you can't screw it up ( been there, did that
) then when you need to use either the Linux or Windows Just choose the start up disk in bios at booting, usually F11, a tiny bit longer than dual booting, but it will save you a lot of hassle. Dual booting is rather dangerous as windows has the annoying habit of wiping Linux grub setups when updating, and Linux has the annoying habit of wiping everything, two different disks, much easier.Windows only wipes Linux grub if the grub boot efi stuff gets installed into the windows disk EFI partition. Its best to specify a new EFI partition on the new disk so grub is isolated from windows. The distro OS probe should pickup an alternate OS on other disk and add a chainloader entry to Linux grub. Windows never knows there is another EFI partition if you do it this way.
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Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?
Do you mean your Windows boot partition?
Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.
The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.
You're gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.
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Do you mean your Windows boot partition?
Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.
The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.
You're gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.
It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been
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It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been
Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?
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Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?
Yeah, mostly fixed stuff but now Im not getting audio. It defaults to my GPU's hdmi audio instead of my onboard sound
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Yeah, mostly fixed stuff but now Im not getting audio. It defaults to my GPU's hdmi audio instead of my onboard sound
Do the audio settings show your onboard audio device?
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Do the audio settings show your onboard audio device?
I ran some terminal cmd (sry dont remember what it was) that gave me a weird UI inside the terminal that actually showed my onboard sound so I think my pc recognizes it somehow somewhere
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I ran some terminal cmd (sry dont remember what it was) that gave me a weird UI inside the terminal that actually showed my onboard sound so I think my pc recognizes it somehow somewhere
You don't have to use the terminal, if you installed regular Fedora with GNOME, you can just search for "Sound" and it should come up with this:
If you installed Fedora KDE you can search for "Sound" as well and it should look like this:
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Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:
1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.
Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?Temporarily disconnect your Windows drive, install Bazzite (bazzite.gg) on a secondary drive, you'll be able to test how it runs on your hardware. If you want to keep it, just reconnect your Windows drive and chose whatever you want to boot to using your bios. You can set one of them to default, and you can temporarily boot to the other by pressing your motherboard's designated boot key (usually F11 or F12, look up yours)
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You don't have to use the terminal, if you installed regular Fedora with GNOME, you can just search for "Sound" and it should come up with this:
If you installed Fedora KDE you can search for "Sound" as well and it should look like this:
I managed to make it work. Apparently the back audio doesnt work if someone is plugged to my front port, kinda annoying but I will survive. Thanks for the help though
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