• @WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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    49 months ago

    Unfortunately it really doesn’t. And it’s actually Linux that’s the bigger problem: whenever it decides to updates GRUB it looks for OSes on all of your drives to make grub entries for them. It also doesn’t necessarily modify the version of grub on the booted drive.

    Yes I’m sure there’s a way to manually configure everything perfectly but my goal is a setup where I don’t have to constantly manually fix things.

    • @CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      If you install each OS with it’s own drive as the boot device, then you won’t see this issue.

      Unless you boot Windows via the grub boot menu. If you do that then Windows will see that drive as the boot device.

      If you select the OS by using the BIOS boot selection then you won’t see this issue.

      I was bitten by Windows doing exactly this almost 15 years ago. Since that day if I ever had a need for dual-boot (even if running different distros) each OS will get it’s own dedicated drive, and I select what I want to boot through the BBS (BIOS Boot Selection). It’s usually invoked with F10 or F11 (but could be a different key combo.