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Hardware OS Selection Switch

8 pointsby Gedxxabout 4 years ago

3 comments

sundvorabout 4 years ago
Nice! I actually dual boot two Win10 partitions, one with WSL2 and work, the other for entertainment&#x2F;personal stuff.<p>I&#x27;m probably SOL trying to achieve something similar, the Win10 boot selector is a bit of a pain; will have a look nonetheless.
kinduffabout 4 years ago
This is a perfect solution imho, it&#x27;s analog, doesn&#x27;t switch drives and the mod is in GRUB.<p>Want to build this but I have no experience at all with this kind of stuff, would love to see a detailed write up!
Nextgridabout 4 years ago
This is very clever. I was expecting it to be a simple hardware switch that toggled power between the Linux and Windows storage devices, but it&#x27;s way more advanced than that - the switch actually communicates with GRUB directly (by emulating a USB storage device with a dummy file).<p>However one problem I see with this (and dual-booting Linux &amp; Windows in general) is that Windows will often tamper with other drives besides the one it&#x27;s on, so there&#x27;s a chance your GRUB will just be overwritten after a Windows update (this wasn&#x27;t a major issue back in Windows 7 as this would only happen on an OS reinstall, but since Windows 10 a lot of updates are actually OS reinstalls in the background).