How to Dual Boot Fedora Linux and Windows 11
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Dual booting Windows and Linux is a great option if you're trying to migrate to a Linux workflow while maintaining the option of a Windows installation on your system, This guide is here to help you get that set up!
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00:00 - Introduction/Warnings
02:52 - Shrinking Volume
05:43 - Flashing Fedora
09:27 - Bios and Boot
11:04 - Installing Linux
13:56 - First Boot
14:30 - Fixing Clock Issues
16:32 - Customizing GRUB
20:16 - Windows Check
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From Windows, hold Shift while selecting Restart, you'll be able to select to boot into the UEFi. Beats hammering a keyboard.
Can u tell if u don't mind what is UEFi and what are u suggesting that can help
@@Abhi-lm6js uefi is like bios but newer and supports mouse input and a gui for bios screens
bios means basic input output system and uefi means unified extensible firmware interface
Lmao i forgot that option existed @Knight_IV
you sir, have saved my fingers and keyboards from years of abuse
Just hold the key brother.
Decided to try Fedora as my second OS on a desktop PC for doing personal projects and to learn Linux better. Huge thanks for such a detailed tutorial, everything works perfectly for me!
I am new to Linux and wanted to have both Windows for gaming and Linux for personal use. After juggling through a lot of videos and articles, this one finally did it for me. Thank you so much for your effort.
Nice to see this method I used for installing Mint to a Vista laptop having some pretty difficult hardware issues with graphics still works for Windows 11. Have a vga/dsub cable and monitor handy. Had to use an older Mint version due some unresolved issue, but got it working for a bit to see if I had some files I could still use in the Windows partition. Gladly my back ups had been frequent enough so tracking various temporary program files was kept to a minimum.
This is a great tutorial, thank you. Worked for my Fedora 39 and Windows 11
Nice following along with you. I did this with Windows 10 and it was smooth. It was nice to use the custom option to get a full breakdown of how the installer is partitioning everything to your drive. I was a little worried when it got stuck at installing bootloader! It hung for a few minutes and I was nervous. Other than that I don't think I'm going to install grub-customizer because I'm fine with Fedora as default. Time to check out your other video now.
I've dual booted Windows and Linux a lot. I know a lot of people have no problems but I had a couple of disasters (one trashing the other's bootloader usually). I ended up getting a SATA drive power switch module. This solved everything- just give power to the drive I want to boot from, plus a shared data drive that always has power.
Even though I consider myself a season linux user with over 20 years of experience under my belt, I still find new things in videos like these. Today I learnt how to set the system to run off the real time clock and not have to update the time every time I log into windows... Thanks!
Yep. My first distro was Red Hat 5.2 and I didn't know that either.
Sir, 20 years?!? 😲
I am not a long time user,
In fact I have only been using Linux for 1 year,
But I have installed a bunch of Linux distros at least 30-50 times.
But I still need to watch a video while installing just to be sure I do not mess this up.
I Got no confidence here
@@johndoe7824 same here. Linux is a constant learning process, and I honestly dig that.
Man, love you sooooo much! I was struggling with the Time Zone thing on an Ubuntu system and I was always like D...Q is going on, you just enlightened my path!!! Thanks a bunch!
Thank you very much for such a great detailed video. It helped me alot 😊
Thank you mate! Your video are extremely accurate and explicative.
Thank you for these tutorial i might try this later for sure!
Really good turorial helped me out a lot!
HUGE help! Thank you so much.
Talk about secure boot, I just discovered recently that on Fedora 36 I don’t have to manually sign the extra driver modules every kernel upgrade anymore. Pretty nice that I finally can use secure boot full time without much hassle.
Oh really? With the proprietary Nvidia driver I had to sign it manually, does this mean that updating to a new kernel or new nvidia driver works seamlessly? I haven't been on Fedora long enough to have a nvidia driver update yet, kind of concerned that it will break secure boot every time (not like it's that hard to just sign the driver again with mokutil but kind of annoying)
Thanks for the time command! Learned something from this video! :)
I have 3 different OSes (1 Windows 10 and 2 Linux distributions - Fedora and openSUSE) and all 3 are on separate actual SSDs. I installed Fedora with its own /boot/efi partition on the drive containing Fedora, and it found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. I did the same with openSUSE (although, initially openSUSE tried to select my Fedora partition to install on instead of the blank SSD).OpenSUSE used its own /boot/efi partition and also found the Windows Boot Manager with no problem. The only issue I had was getting it to also include Fedora 36 on the boot screen.
I fixed that by taking the script for the Fedora boot entry, copying it into a text file, then recreating it as a new boot entry in openSUSE. Now the openSUSE boot screen has all 3 operating systems in the boot menu.
I could have gotten Fedora to locate the openSUSE boot entry, but I like the openSUSE graphical boot screen better; Fedora just uses the plain GRUB 2.6 boot menu.
Man, I love your channel! Thank you!
BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!This is cool, well done!
Awesome video! Thanks! About to try Fedora.
good walktrough very easy to follow
Big difference in doing tech stuff and being an IT guy, thanks for being the latter. Very well done without the fluff.
I have been looking for a BOOT manager software for ages! It would be so much easier if could install a tiny software to a hard disk and them install any SO(Win or Linux) and just manager the boot system. Great video, thank you for sharing!
A boot manager? Personally I use either rEFInd or Ventoy :) Both great pieces of software!
Thank you. I have successfully completed installing my Linux.
Awesome video, thanks!
Thank you, this is indeed helpful
Nice JOB ! Reaaly helpfull ! Thank you !
This is awesome presentation. Thanks
Great video, thank you!
If possible, create a video on how to "replace" that Linux when you want to, say, install another distribution. I guess there should be a clean-up of boot menu entries? 🤔
Thank you for the video. I was able to dual boot Fedora with Windows 11 🙌
Nice video. My experience is with older Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Both have a tendency to mess with UEFI boot order as part of bigger updates. In those cases efibootmgr (Linux) can be helpful. I’m using rEFInd as my primary boot manager (alternatives exist) it has its own rEFInd-mkdefault? that can help restore it as primary boot target. Using rEFInd it’s easy to set default OS and timeout - also has a nice GUI to select OS on boot.
yeah, i installed windows 10 after installing linux mint and ended up overwriting the linux mint boot record
Me too! Because of having a wireless keyboard I needed something to boot with the mouse, so I found it. Everything is very visual and cool
you are good! and your english is so good to listening and understand for non natives.
worked for me, no issues !!
Thank you for the video
thank you so much , it worked 🙂
Ty. Watching this on my new Linux machine.
I am dual booting Win10 and OpenSUSE Leap at the moment on our secondary machine 😎🙏
thanks for keeping it post
First of all, you and everybody need Ventoy in your life right now!
Most distros by default try to have only one EFI partition, the problem with that is that if you are using 2 drivers with different OSs, the OS in the second drive needs the first drive or it won’t boot, so if you decide to upgrade the first drive, you have to rebuild the EFI partition which can be a PITA.
Fedora and Manjaro allow you to create a second EFI partition which you can use exclusively for you second OS even in a one drive. This way is less traumatic if you want to distrohoop or just get rid of the second OS, you just delete the second EFI partition and the OS partitions.
Ubuntu base distros need a second drive and temporarily remove the first drive to create a “second” EFI partition even when the installer gives you the option to create a second EFI and select it.
If you don’t want a second EFI, you have to edit the first EFI when you change or want to remove a second OS.
I have 2 drives and 5 EFI partitions with Windows 10, 11, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and Manjaro
Oh wow. I went exploring for myself in preferences-shortcuts and I do not have a save contents key combination configured. Trying to do that now so I can save future grub alterations and commands 🙂
great work
Thanks man now I can enjoy both Linux and Windows 😃
worked first time. super easy
Giving some feedback on my experience: make sure you boot the usb on UEFI mode. I had two options named "usb" and "uefi". I unfortunately used USB and ended up breaking my system. I did not understand anything but apparently I installed fedora on the BIOS while windows was installed on UEFI so Grun wasnt giving me choices between the two OS (was booting straight on fedora). So if you read this, make sure you do boot the USB key on the same boot mode as windows!!
Weird thing is my USB is not showing up on BIOS to change the boot manager
For me, my Windows Partition manager did not allow to shrink more than like 100 mb which clearly isn't enough. This was mainly because my 1tb SSD was almost full. Even after deleting some big games, I was only allowed to shrink the C drive to down 100 mb. However, using this partitioning software called AOMEI Partition Assistant, I was able to shrink my drive down to the size I wanted though it took quite a while. My guess is that it had to move quite a lot of files to create the partition. It is freeware, but just the free version works for what I needed to do.
As of now, I'm proud to say that I have primarily using only Linux Fedora since May and have been enjoying it! I've only had to go into my Windows dual boot like 3 times, and every single time I'm only reminded of how much I dislike using Windows
how much linux experience did you have bbeforehand?
There is also a youtube tutorial talking about this exact issue of being unable to shrink your partition close to the apparent free space.
It only uses various settings already inside of windows, and doesn't need third party software.
On tutorial everything is great. In real life, after installation, I have an "An operating system wasn't found." 🤣
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thank you!
Thank you very much! I'm waiting a new drive to arrive so I can try linux(Fedora) for the first time :)
just installed fedora a few weeks ago on my dual boot system. oh well still a fun watch as always
Did you run into any problems?
IIRC, if you disable blscfg, you'll have to remember to update grub each time a new kernel is installed. That might give you a few headaches if you forget to...
your voice is smooth, video is clean, presentation, knowledge, persona etc everything is top notch for streaming, not irritating instead it grabs attention, i don't understand why you are getting only so much views!!!!, you deserve better.
Thank you, with time :)
yeap tech hit guy is pretty damn cool.
Joe Collins aka EzeeLinux is another great Linux source...not AS active these days imo but still worth checking out
I have separate drives for both, with bootloaders on the same drive. So Windows and it's bootloader on one drive and Linux and grub on another. I use the motherboards boot selector (F11 on my mobo), to choose bootloader.
Windows doesn't mess up Linux and vice versa...
Great! Works with dual boot Windows 11 Pro and Fedora 39 Workstation. Regards.
Can definitely recommend putting Windows on a separate drive. It did some weird stuff on update to my partitions quite often and then i had to fix my Linux installation wich was just super annoying.
I only use windows nowdays cuz i make Skyrim mods and modding that game on Linux is just super painful (wich modding already is by default).
UPDATE - for people facing problem in grub update after modifying the settings in Grub Customizer,
Re-run the command `sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg` after you tweak in Grub Customizer.
Bro thank you so much ❤ Now Windows is my first boot option, the way I wanted it to be.
I mean, there's an option to make grub auto-select the last thing you booted into, kinda like bootcamp
Great man
Does Grub Customized let you do anything to make multiple partitions decrypted with just one initial passkey as you are prompted to enter to decrypt your primary partition that the system is on at startup? I've asked about this on forums but have gotten told to fu&$ off to the Arch forums where I get to run out of documentation to read and not encounter a part on the grub section that speaks about this.
Thank man
Great illustration and explanation. Have subscribed. Can you do the same with Red Hat 9.2/Windows 11 in the same way? Thanks.
great! You can use Fedora media writer for windows to burn the iso too.
* You are right, installing fedora with the secure boot enabled is problematic, in my case, few days ago, I've installed fedora 39 with Secure boot enabled, when I've installed Nvidia akmod driver and then rebooted my laptop, I get the error message: "Nvidia kernel module missing, falling back to nouvea".
* I've googled it and found I should disable secure boot before installing it. And I did and it worked like a charm.
* Fedora requires at least 3 partitions as in your example, the wizard automatically did:
/boot
/boot/efi
/
* Altough you can only have /boot/efi and / partitions and Fedora works, you'll get a quick error message before grub window pops up at sturtup:
"Error : ../../grub-core/console/loadenv.c:216:sparse file not allowed" . this message appears while booting fedora.
* The solution: you have to create the missing partition upon insrallation: /boot as a separate partition.
* Keep up the good work!
what a coincidence? I'm also using the exact same usb drive. I like to use ventoy instead of rufus because I can have multiple ISO images
I'm pretty sure when I installed Fedora on both my laptops that I had no issue with leaving secure boot enabled. Manjaro and a couple of other distros on the other hand, I did have to disable it first. And to do that, you might need to enable a BIOS/UEFI password.
And just a note on installing Linux on the same drive as Windows. You can do it and it will generally run fine, but just be aware that if Windows gets upgraded to a new version (i.e Win10 to 11), you try to restore or rollback Windows, it will probably overwrite whatever partitions are currently on the drive (namely your Linux partitions) to what a fresh PC install of Windows would be. Sometimes this might be good if the Grub loader becomes unwieldy and confusing with no names added in the BIOS menus - as happened to me after installing other distro's after Fedora.
Not all laptops have two SSDs in them either. If I do have two SSDs, what I've been doing of late is installing all operating systems on the one drive and keeping my home (personal) folders on the second drive and just pointing each Linux (or Windows) to that drive. If Windows decides to play silly games, they're generally safe from their wrath. And it's relatively quick (although a hassle) to re-install Linux. But the way I've been going with some distro's, it's been fine wiping the drive and putting something else on there LOL.
So friend, as u said and correct myself if i am wrong- u said that if on a single drive, we have installed Windows and Linux distribution both, then it may creates problems at the time of upgrades of Windows. Right. So can I install Linux distribution in another drive apart from Local C drive ? Is it makes sense. Means can I do this partition in another drive ?
@@Abhi-lm6js Yes you can put it on another physical drive, but not a different partition on the same drive (well you can, but if windows decided to update to say WIndows 11, then it will most likely reset your whole drive with windows on it (including a Linux install)
I still cannot figure out the key commands you used Brandon to save to grub changes for putting windows first?
I had tried dual booting in old laptop and it worked fine. But when I bought the new laptop with windows11 , it gave me lot of problem. So I did what a sensible person will do delete whole windows11 and installed fedora 36. It's like relationship you have to commit at some point.
Yo, after setup my fedora, idk why my screen like stucked here, i can move my cursor around i can access the wifi button. But i can't shut down the fedora, i can only suspend it, is it like installing proccess?
It’s complicated at keep Windows with Bitlocker, live side by side with Fedora with Luks2 disk encryption on same SSD, without option to disable secure boot. Enterprise “setup” is quite demanding. Go for Linux 100% and run windows in Linux as VM is better, as long gaming is not part of the equation.
Why don't you use Ventoy? It allows you to have multiple distro's on one USB stick
Thanks bro
I do this with Win 11 and Ubuntu MATE 22.04 - but have Fedora/RHEL iterations on KVMs for work. :)
It’s been a while since I did a dual boot so I followed your guide. It’s about as simple as it used to be with only a few minimal changes but when I went to boot back into windows it gave me the bitlocker error and wouldn’t boot. I had to go online and find my current key… will it always do this? Is it because I disabled secure boot to make things easier on the Linux side?
omg thank you i always installed grub-customizer and fedora always dissapered from grub, thank you a lot 👍
Nice!
Good video.
I just followed your video and I got to the last point, so my Fedora installation seems fully functional, but although I would rather not get Windows as my priority boot, I want to switch every now and then. So I went through the commands to modify the grub manager. However, when I boot up the PC and enter the BIOS I don't have any OS choices, just my SSD on which I have both the OS installed. I don't have a choice when I turn on the PC. I get sent directly to Fedora, which is fine mostly but , how can I make sure to do that? I tried to repeat the steps, restart the PC, and do many checks
At this point with all the bs spying windows does, imo you're better off running windows 11 in a qemu kvm than dualbooting. that or, you know, not using windows and using linux with bottles or docker to run any windows software that you need to run;
Yeah my Windows install is in a Proxmox container. Works really good.
i might try this. currently dual booting zorin and windows 10, which i need for school stuff and a few audio plugins and games. thanks for the recommendation! o7
unfortunately my CPU doesn't support VT-x (even if it does, it doesn't seem to be an option in my firmware settings) so dualbooting is the only option for me
Yep, my windows install is in a qemu KVM with GPU passthrough as well that I used only to play Halo Infinite haha it seems like I will delete Windows completely in a short term once Halo Infinite works reliably on Linux
I would but MP games doesn’t really work on Linux.
I did not enjoy Fedora Linux originally so I moved back to kubuntu. I have been using Nobara Linux official version and have been really enjoying it. The problems I have though is that I do use this laptop for work and with Fedora more up to date packages WebEx does not work.
I will try this method to get fedora and Pop! OS installed on a one portable SSD drive, been trying to get it done but no luck
I dont get how you changed the grub save for the putting windows first section? Watched an copied you about 3 times. Says yes or no option and when I type 'yes' it does not let me save it?
For those of us who are not advanced Linux users how do you save grub configurations please? You went ctrl alt then ctrl x or something: which I can't get to work lol?
It's the little things
I got a problem with grub customizer... each time I try to install via terminal I get an error which says, it couldn't be found. I'm running nobara, which is based on fedora.
I encountered an error. After i made the changes in the grub file, and reloaded grub, my grub boot menu doesn't want to show up when rebooting fedora. (only when i hit Esc) but shows up, when i reboot from Windows (without hitting any key). Any idea why is this happening?
My OCD would never allow a Windows partition size of 351.23 GB to pass. It would need to be a precise rounded number say 350 GB :) Every OS installation I do is done as GPT EFI.
OCD High five 🤣💪
Is this a stable solution or a major Distro/Windows update would mess things up?
thank youuu
I don't see how to dual boot, what I see is "How to betray Windows". Lmao
Always hated dual booting, but would definitely do it if I always used a laptop.
"grub-customizer" not found in the repository. Has it been renamed or deleted?
Thanks for the tutorial.
Just one thing: At the 4:30 mark, is 128GB = 131072MB ?
Yes. The reason is because 1GB is equal to 1024MB.
the thing that makes me use Windows is just ArcGIS Pro / Desktop thing, for geospatial works. QGIS sadly can't replacing it yet.
Please do a video about grub themes and how to apply them
How to dual boot 2 Linux Distros would be a nice video.
What's the BEST HARDWARE to use when running a Linux distro on an x86 platform - for normal or even optimal performance?
Hi Techhut, I am running Fedora dual boot. What if I want to boot PopOS? Can I just install it on the partition or do I need to uninstall Fedora first?
you can install on another partition but its not a good idea to do so because sometimes messes with linux's files
onee question, can i use the fedora image writing tool aswell?
of course :)
I had some issues after installing with the media created by rufus, then I used the fedora media writer available on fedora download page and had no problems
What if I want to upgrade? Will It keep partitions or mess them up?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you just install Windows on one SSD then install Linux on another SSD on your machine? You should be able to switch it over in the UEFI/BIOS before boot
@@catch82 I thought so. Thanks catch82
The only thing I do on Windows is something with Windows specified web work so I ended up removing Windows partition and installing Windows in virtual machine. No more wasting of storage using Windows.
I installed dualboot of fedora 39 and fedora 39 on same drive. The 2'th install destroyed first install efi entry, but EFI was only mounted, not formatted. No os probe or grub update was able to fix that. It was encrypted btrfs.