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I have tried it two times already and each time I hit some or the other road-block.
AFAIU it, both Windows 10 and any GNU/Linux say Debian can live each happily with each other.
Now I have a 4 TB HDD put as a gpt disk.
Now when I do install the OS, I do it this way -
a. Windows 10 with /boot
f. After Windows Installation is all done, then install debian and use grub2 so it finds both the distros. and do the best it can.
Now with Linux, it is easy mapping out the needs -
a. grub2 shows something like this -
> ls -lh /boot
total 27M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 193K Dec 22 19:42 config-4.14.0-2-amd64
drwx------ 3 root root 1.0K Jan 1 1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Jan 15 01:43 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19M Jan 12 10:40 initrd.img-4.14.0-2-amd64
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Jan 1 17:49 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.9M Dec 22 19:42 System.map-4.14.0-2-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.4M Dec 22 19:42 vmlinuz-4.14.0-2-amd64
Now I want to have the kernel, memory tester and some more free space in /boot.
> df -h /boot
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 88M 40M 43M 49% /boot
Also see -
r> sudo ls -lh /boot/efi/EFI
total 3.0K
drwx------ 2 root root 1.0K Dec 31 21:38 Boot
drwx------ 2 root root 1.0K Dec 31 19:23 debian
drwx------ 4 root root 1.0K Dec 31 21:32 Microsoft
I am somewhat confused as putting a large area for /boo encourages reserved and other such directories under Windows 10.
I am open to the idea of starting from scratch i.e. install windows 10 again but not sure how to tackle the partitioning so that /boot or /boot/efi
so can anybody give me advice as to how to proceed further if I start with a clean slate.
With UEFI, you don't need to worry about GRUB finding the other operating systems. The UEFI BIOS can select from multiple EFI bootloaders – multithr3at3d – 2018-01-15T18:54:54.463
1@multithr3at3d While that is theoretically the case, there are essentially no consumer systems that provide any way to select one or the other manually on boot without going through the firmware configuration menu or hitting some special hotkey, and updating the boot-order from Windows is an unreliable pain in the arse. Given both factors, it really is easier in almost all cases to use a regular bootloader like GRUB 2 or rEFInd. – Austin Hemmelgarn – 2018-01-15T20:04:10.550