Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. In my experiencem, external drives come before internal drives anyway. I've been bitten by this. -- Michael

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Felix Miata
George N. White III composed on 2023-12-07 19:38 (UTC-0400): > Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you >> can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. > F12 on my Dell systems. On my desktop the monitor is slow to

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:22 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you > can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. > F12 on my Dell systems. On my desktop the monitor is slow to start (using a cheap USBC to HDM

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/7/23 13:39, Tim Evans wrote: o    Go into the PC BIOS and disable "Secure Boot." (Apparently, there is a workaround that allows you to skip this, but I didn't explore it.) Did you try without doing this? It should just work. o    While in the BIOS, change the boot device order to put yo

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.12.2023 um 22:39 schrieb Tim Evans : > > Closing the loop on this. Thanks to everyone who replied. This turned out to > be fairly simple, and everyone who replied had something good to add. Hi Tim and all participants here, This thread is a permanent and recurring topic. Wouldn't it

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/2/23 15:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 8:35 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > About 1 yr back I installed fedora onto my wife's dell laptop with windows > 10 for > dual boot. Despite significant and lengthy efforts to follow online guides > to get > windows to free up space I never got that to work - windows never gave

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread Neal Becker
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 7:00 AM George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM Tim Evans wrote: > >> Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo >> T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) >> >> It's been 10 years since I set the

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM Tim Evans wrote: > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo > T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. > > I'm sure I can figure

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2023-12-02 13:04 (UTC-0800): Tim Evans wrote: >> Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo >> T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) >> It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows.

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Samuel Sieb said: > On 12/2/23 13:02, Chris Adams wrote: > >Also, after installing Fedora (which made GRUB the default UEFI boot > >option), booting Windows from GRUB gave an error because of the > >Bitlocker disk encryption and measured boot. I had to enter the key > >(logged i

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/2/23 13:02, Chris Adams wrote: Also, after installing Fedora (which made GRUB the default UEFI boot option), booting Windows from GRUB gave an error because of the Bitlocker disk encryption and measured boot. I had to enter the key (logged in to my mandatory MS account to get it, I think y

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/2/23 12:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tim Evans said: > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable > Lenovo T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug > around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. > > I'm sure I can figure out how to

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo > T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. > > I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows > pa