Re: Windows 10 update ate Fedora 25 boot info: EFI. LVM, LUKS, oh, my!

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/13/17 08:18, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  On 12/12/2017 03:23 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> >
> >     There's almost no reason to run Windows on bare metal
> >
> >
> > There is if you use Windows to play 3-D games.
>  In my experience, Windows has never played nicely with any other OS on
>  the disk. M$ thinks they own the world and they used either
>  unceremoniously evict any bootloader that wasn't theirs from the disk
>  or bitch loudly that the drive was used and refuse to install at all.
>  For those who had to have M$ on their system, my advice was to install
>  Windows first, reserving enough space on the disk for Linux to live in.
>  Second, install Linux into that reserved location. Linux would set up
>  grub to load Linux or chain-load Windows and Bob's your uncle.
>
>  If you must run Windows on bare metal rather than a VM, I'd use a second
>  disk, install Windows on it and have your BIOS boot that second drive
>  when you want to bring up Windows. A second drive may not work so well
>  on a laptop, but you could use a USB3 external drive for the times you
>  need Windows. This also allows you to cart your Windows environment
>  around with you as you move from machine to machine (and you'd only
>  need one license). I use a VM for Windows but I use it very rarely--
>  usually only if someone holds a large gun to my head or threatens my
>  dog. Well, that only happened once and the person threatening my dog
>  was, uhm, "disapeared". :-) 
I don't use Windows at all.  But I have question anyway.  I thought that Windows
would complain, and maybe refuse to run, if you used an external drive and the
hardware it is running on has changed.


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