Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

[Sam Jorna]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:43:42PM -0500, R0b0t1 wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:09:14PM -0500, R0b0t1 wrote:
> >> It should just work if you create space for it. There are admonitions
> >> to install Windows first as people claim it will destroy a disk, but
> >> I'm not sure if it ever did this, and it seems to work well with
> >> whatever you give it.
> >
> > It may not destroy any existing partitions, but it will overwrite any
> > bootloader you had installed (and/or reset boot order) on the install
> > disk.
> >
>
> If you perform an EFI installation it can't delete your bootloader
> (unless you modify the partition it's on).
>
> The second one I didn't think of.

Indeed, it won't necessarily destroy the entire ESP, but it will reset
the boot order to point to the Windows booloader, and I suspect it will
overwrite anything at ESP:EFI\Boot.

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Sam Jorna (wraeth)
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