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Dual Boot dilemma (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello there,

I just want to buy a new gaming system, laptop, because I want to be mobile. There is only one game I cant give up that is league of legends. So I'm searching a manufactor, which can handle dual boot perfectly. I mean everytime I boot into windows and want to reboot into linux again, so my entry is gone (refind, systems and grub). Maybe there is a brand which separate two OS Hardware wise or has a BIOS espacially for such a case?

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago*

if you get a coreboot compatible laptop you can burn GRUB into your firmware so that it can't ever be destroyed by windows.

Then you can boot into linux by having GRUB load the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file in your linux FS, or load windows by chainloading into another payload in firmware (e.g. SeaBIOS) that can load windows.

This is kinda advanced though, and there is a big limitation in that you can only run BIOS (not UEFI) because EDK2, which is the only coreboot payload that can do UEFI can't be chainloaded into from grub

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