Can you use BitLocker with dual boot?
Ubuntu and other Linux play very well with secure boot and UEFI now. To be honest, dual booting with BitLocker encrypted disk is also not complicated. It just involves the extra step of disabling encryption before starting the dual boot and re-enable it after installing Linux. Don’t worry.
How do you switch between distros?
The steps are as follows:
- Download the Live environment ISO of your favorite Linux distribution, and burn it to a CD/DVD or write it to a USB drive.
- Boot into your newly-created media.
- Use the same tool to create a new ext4 partition in the empty space created by resizing the first partition.
Does TPM prevent dual boot?
TPM does not keep you from dual booting at all. First install both systems and configure the partitions to your liking, then you enable Bitlocker and encrypt the Windows partition only, instead of encrypting the entire drive.
Is it possible to dual boot two Linux distros?
It’s the default for most of the distros I’ve seen. If so, when you boot up your new installation media, start out by going to Gparted, if it’s not there install it. Then modify the current drive partition by shrinking it so that you have enough space for your new OS. Then go back and install.
Why do I have two boot partitions in Linux?
If you chose to allow your current OS to partition automatically, you will have 2 /boot partitions, the new one will be the one that is used for grub at boot up time, so if you need to make changes in the future, you’ll have to make them to that partition.
Which is the best hard drive for dual booting?
Pick /dev/sda, your original hard drive, because that’s the one the Bios is going to boot to, unless you change that in the bios. If you didn’t already, manually setup a /boot partition on your original hard drive, the new installation on the second hard drive will contain the Grub that the boot loader will point to.
How can I run two Linux distributions at the same time?
Use the horizontal slider in the partition strip at the bottom of the window to alter the space allocation on your drive between the two distros in just the same way as Windows resizing. You might also notice that the two distributions will be sharing a single swap space, just as we created manually.