Post by @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org

2026-10-19 04:49 UTC

Caution, dual-boot means you have to power down your system before you can start the other, if you share any file systems. Hibernate and then booting another distro will result in file system damage. The alternative would be a virtual machine. It can also occasionally mess up the grub configuration, which means you have to reinstall grub.

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@Well1@lemmy.world 2026-10-19 10:23

Woah, didn’t know that about grub. I hardly understand what it is, so it leaves me with a question: I don’t know if that makes any sense or goes directly against the nature of the bootloader definition but, can I switch one OS’s bootloader to Limine (got told by another user that grub failed for him with Cachy and switching to Limine solved it) and the other still be grub?

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@ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2026-10-19 13:36

It never even occured to me to hibernate and then switching OS. I just use a command to reboot and tell grub to preselect the other OS and go do something else for 60 seconds while it reboots. It’s true that sometimes the grub config gets messed up, but in two years doing this, I’ve had to reinstall grub once (twice if you count me changing distros).

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