Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

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wp.rauchholz
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Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/28 07:43:37

I do have a ThinkPad T470S with 19,4 GB of memory and 170GB HD space available. I need to solve two issues
  • Using first Centos-7-livecd-GNOME-x86_64.iso and later Centos-7-livecd-GNOME-x86_64.iso I created the USB. In both cases I get an error message after startup that the system Can't root filesystem. I attach also a screenshot
  • Like to get expert advice whether the partition I wanted to create is correct.
    / 8 GB, Device Device Type: Standard, File System: ext4
    /swap, 20 GB, Device Type: swap, File System: swap
    /home, remaining GB, Device Type: Standard, File System: ext4.

Thank you for helping me out.
Wolfgang
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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by desertcat » 2019/07/28 08:05:29

wp.rauchholz wrote:
2019/07/28 07:43:37
I do have a ThinkPad T470S with 19,4 GB of memory and 170GB HD space available. I need to solve two issues
  • Using first Centos-7-livecd-GNOME-x86_64.iso and later Centos-7-livecd-GNOME-x86_64.iso I created the USB. In both cases I get an error message after startup that the system Can't root filesystem. I attach also a screenshot
  • Like to get expert advice whether the partition I wanted to create is correct.
    / 8 GB, Device Device Type: Standard, File System: ext4
    /swap, 20 GB, Device Type: swap, File System: swap
    /home, remaining GB, Device Type: Standard, File System: ext4.

Thank you for helping me out.
Wolfgang
Wolfgang: Just a trivia question: WHY did you use a "livecd"? Why didn't you use the CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso (aka the DVD.iso)??

As I understand it -- and I could be WRONG -- the livecd was never intened to be used as an install medium -- that is not to say that you can't, but rather the livecd was never intended to be used as such. The medium for which you do installs from is the DVD.iso. That may or may not be the source of your problems.

wp.rauchholz
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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/28 09:39:01

I certainly can use the file you suggest.
I had used in the past live cd. You can test Centos first. there is an icon on the desktop that say install from there. That was the reason.
Thanks for the tip. I wil l try.


What do you think about the partition structure?

Wolfgang

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by tunk » 2019/07/28 09:45:28

How did you create the USB: https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
Just in case, you may also want a bit more than 8GB for "/", maybe 12-15.
And you will probably get away with using 2-4GB for swap.

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/28 09:46:34

Hi!, I used instructions of the exact same post to create the USB :)

Thank you.

Wolfgang

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/28 14:37:20

Thank you for the help.
Dual-Boot successfully installed.

Wolfgang

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/30 08:33:20

Well, I think that I celebrated victory too early.
After two days of working fine, my laptop started booting only into Windows directly.
As I Centos would have disappeared. The Window @ bootup that appears to chose to boot into Windows or Centos is gon.e
Did this happen to somebody else? What was the reason?

Regards, Wolfgang

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by Myagy » 2019/07/30 08:59:42

Thank you guys for this thread. Dual-Boot successfully installed on my computer with Windows 10.

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by owl102 » 2019/07/30 09:05:35

wp.rauchholz wrote:
2019/07/30 08:33:20
Did this happen to somebody else? What was the reason?
Yes. Sometimes a MS-Windows update thinks it would be a good idea to change the UEFI boot load order to its favour. (BTW: Yes, MS loves Linux, but it does not like to find it installed on your computer :mrgreen: )

For a solution take a look at https://wiki.debianforum.de/UEFI#Nach_e ... MS-Windows

The (U)EFI path for the CentOS boot loader is \EFI\centos\grubx64.efi

(I'm sorry for the German link but it seems that you are a German speaking person and I'm too lazy to search for an English equivalent.)
German speaking forum for Fedora and CentOS: https://www.fedoraforum.de/

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Re: Helpo to setup dual boot with Windows10

Post by wp.rauchholz » 2019/07/30 09:22:00

Vilen Dank, das war sehr hilfreich.

Wolgfang

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