- #Make windows 10 boot menu work with linux how to#
- #Make windows 10 boot menu work with linux install#
Insert your MX Linux bootable USB, restart the PC and boot the installation. After that, go ahead, insert your MX Linux bootable USB, restart the PC and boot the installation. When it’s done, you can close the disk management tool. The tool will perform the operation very quickly. When you enter the size for the new partition, click on the button – Shrink volume. But take note, you need to have enough of free space on your HDD in order to create a new partition. If you want, you can create partition with larger disk space capacity, over 30 GB if you need. For an example, we will create a new partition that will have 30 GB of disk space, so we will enter 30 000 MB. In that field, enter the amount of disk space for the new partition and enter that number in MB(megabytes). We need the option – Enter the amount of disk space to shrink in MB. When you click the shrink volume, a prompt wizard will start. We will use that partition and split it in order to create a new partition. Right click on the partition with the letter C on it(aka your primary Windows partition) and click on the option Shrink volume. When the disk management window opens, on the bottom of the window, all HDDs in your system are going to be displayed. So, right click on the Start menu and click on the disk management. Besides this, there a lot of good and free tools to do this, that can be found online(easeus partition manager, minitool partition wizard – both are free). Windows 10 has it’s own built in tool to partition disks, which we are going to use. In Windows 10 the process is quite simple. Free space on HDD Creating a partition for the MX Linuxįirst we start with creating a partition for our MX Linux installation.
#Make windows 10 boot menu work with linux install#
Meaning, you need to boot and install MX Linux in same boot mode as Windows, otherwise the dual boot setup won’t work. It is strongly advisable, before proceeding with these steps, backup you system just in case.Īlso another important thing, check your system does it boot in EUFI or in Legacy mode and create the bootable USB to match your PC boot mode. We are going to use a setup were it will have one HDD, Windows 10 already installed, manage partitioning for the MX Linux installation and in the end we will have MX Linux alongside Windows 10 in dual boot setup.
#Make windows 10 boot menu work with linux how to#
In this post we will cover the process on how to dual boot Windows 10 and MX Linux. How to dual boot Windows 10 and MX Linux Overview