A little side note for 11:48-11:25, you can do the same thing in Windows before you start the live USB. Start menu -> Disk Management Right click on the NTFS partition you're editing (box with blue line above it) and select "Shrink". Windows will automatically trim the partition to fit your current saved files AND leave a little extra for rollover.
Jay, this comment is not about Pop OS but *is* about dual-boot with Windows 10. I made my first move into Linux only about a month ago by (ultimately) settling on MX Linux as the best (for me) choice to load on an old and very hardware-limited Acer Aspire One netbook. The first distro I put on it was Mint 19.2 with the Cinnamon desktop but quickly realized that the hardware wasn't up to it (only 2 gig of RAM). This video on a dual-boot installation of Pop! OS with Windows 10 was the final bit of encouragement I needed to go back to Mint 19.2/Cinnamon and perform a similar dual-OS install on a second laptop, this time on a Lenovo Flex 3 (with more RAM). And, in fact, I performed it just tonight...and successfully! In this video, I didn't pick up on any kind of cautionary note from you about dual boot setups. However, during all of the considerable Linux-focused UA-cam viewing I've done during my learning process, I came upon another UA-cam-er who (admittedly 4 years ago) posted a video in which he came down firmly against dual boot (calling it the Dual Boot Deception). He claimed it created a very unstable environment for the Linux OS. It's possible he's changed his mind in the years since...and it's also possible that there are two firmly-entrenched camps on this. Can you provide more insight? Is there anything I need to be on the lookout for with dual-boot...or anything I should do in any pro-active fashion?
Nice video. 2 things missing IMHO: - You did forget to add the /recovery partition (4GB FAT32) which is a nice feature of Pop!_OS - Is there a way to configure systemd-boot to manage what OS to boot (with timer)?
I'm about to install Pop_Os next to my Win 10 (might wait until 20.04 comes out) and I would be interested in the recovery partition. After I create the 4 gigs fat32 partition how do I tell Pop Os that this one should be the recovery partition?
You are a superb educator, sir. This video is much more clear and detailed than that other guy. ;-) Plus which, he JUST LEARNED you can have multiple partitions, and he's already telling others how to do it?? Keep up the good work, man, and smile a little, once in a while. ;) ;)
After researching all of the Linux OS available, I think PoP Os is my best choice. I have used Windows for years so I love the idea of dual boot. Thanks for the Tut! I'm learning more and more every time I venture into Linux.
I made a duel boot on my laptop with kali and ubuntu before, so I was a bit familiar with the process, but man the way you walk through it is very helpful I walked away from this vid understanding way more about duel boot than like 5 other vids I've watched... I just subbed...great job man....
This was the second video I watched and it was simpler than the first. Thanks for your time. I have run the Live Pop-OS and it does get the wifi going and my printer. So here I go!!!!
This is excellent! Very well-presented and easy to follow! I actually made a dual-boot of Bodhi next to Lubuntu, and I have GRUB appearing on boot-up, so I can select between the two - it works great! But I see that Windows/Pop OS is a different story - and it looks much nicer! 🙂
Every Pop!_OS dual boot tutorial has at least one of this comment haha. I'm also new to Linux (hence why I'm watching this video) but if I was to try and paraphrase what I've seen other people say in response to comments like yours, I would say that it's difficult to set up grub with Pop!_OS because Pop uses something called systemd, and these tutorials try to be more beginner friendly. I hope I could help but I don't even know what I'm talking about...
At 17:31 my boot partition shows a exclamation mark saying (EFI partition is not GPT disk) pleas help I did the same steps as you did don't know why it keeps happening..
At 11:44, when I press custom install, I get a window which shows me 30 gb dev/sda drive. Under modify partition, i have two types: dev/sda and dev/nvme... even after applying changes to the disk of interest, still dev/nvme with 500 gb of storage is not shown and hence i am unable to proceed further. What is shown is the pendrive dataspace. Please help as soon as possible.
hey there, thanks for the tutorial. but am not getting option to select os i want to boot to while restarting. It automatically boots the POP OS. Any solution?
automatically it will boot to one of the two before it boots up either one though, you have a moment where you can press a key to open your boot menu and from there you can choose it's all in the video
Thanks! Another tutorial showed that you need to install grub bootloader to be able to boot back to windows again and I was asking myself why not just use the default boot menu that comes with the laptop's bios?. Looks like I was right.
So unlike with a GRUBbed distro like Ubuntu, the only way for me to access Windows in my Pop OS dual boot is by accessing the one-time boot menu and selecting it manually? There's no intervening screen with the option for one or the other (such as with GRUB) ?
BEWARE! I had nothing but frustration, trying to get this to work on two old laptops from 2006 and 2011. I tried loading POP!_OS on top of both Win7x64 Pro and Win10x64 Pro. Ain't gonna happen. Even after I found instructions from another source on getting grub up to snuff (since just using F8 or F12 CANNOT work on these older computers, where those boot menus are burned into ROM), I hit a brick wall when gparted threw up the error "partition can't be outside the disk." This happened on both laptops. I believe gparted is trying to read the old fashioned MBR as if it was the more modern GPT setup. I might be able to switch to GPT, but it's waaaaay more trouble than it's worth, especially since I'm not sure that's the only problem.
Instead, I ordered a used 250GB 6 Gb/s hard drive for $8 and change on eBay. I'll try to do a clean install, just to try out POP!_OS. I think this tutorial would be much improved if it contained a warning about the minimum specs for the target disk. What works on one machine, doesn't work for all machines. The BIOS on these older laptops wasn't built with UEFI (see 8:03) to handle GPT style boot records, and that might be ANOTHER issue if i tried to switch to the newer system. Not going to happen.
I found that POP!_OS version 19.10 will install on a single partition alongside the Windows 10 partition. It is not necessary to create the additional SWAP or BOOT partitions. This is helpful for people with a limit of 4 partitions on a MBR hard drive. After installing, I was able to access my datafiles on the Windows partition from within POP in the Files folder. However, I could not boot to Windows. In order to boot to Windows and have a dual boot system, I had to manipulate the GRUB file in POP terminal window to add a reference to the Windows directory. Dual boot is not automatic on my system. The presenter must have had his drive configured to allow more than 4 partitions and used a system that creates dual boot automatically. It would be good if he made another video explaining the configuration of his hard drive. Here are the commands I used in the POP terminal window to enable dual boot: sudo os-prober If you get a message that the command is not recognized, type os-prober and it will prompt you to add the os-prober application. Then run sudo os-prober again. If this detects Windows, then type the command: sudo update-grub Then restart your system and open the boot options menu and select to boot to your hard drive. Another window will pop up asking you which partition. Select the Windows partition or the POP partition and it will boot to your selection. Here is the URL reference for this procedure. www.trishtech.com/2017/09/quickly-add-windows-10-to-grub-menu-after-installing-ubuntu/ There are other ways to create a dual boot different from this but his apparently works for older systems.
I like your Linux videos. I am a Windows 10 tech support type critter - enjoying PoP OS. However, i noticed at time 21:32 that your Win 10 install is not activated. This would restrict certain things happening on Win 10. Just checking ( as you did not state via RUN 'WINVER' ... that install to be 1809, 1903 or 1909 .... ? ) So for tech feedback ..what version of Win 10 were you using ? RUN > WINVER
I am facing a problem installation problem.. the screen at 17.22 is not showing any partition bar instead it is a clean white/black background with the text of "select....swab partition" on top an absolutely nothing below it
I have a surface go that has a built-in mini-sd card slot. I couldn't find a way to boot from the card like would do from a usb. But watching your video I thought (I'm a newbie at this). Could it be possible , to create the partition for the "Pop boot" on the internal HD and have the other two partitions on the external mini-sd card? That way I can choose the partition inside the HD to be a bootable option in the BIOS but it doesn't take all the space (20GB +)? Basically I'm trying to save as much space as I can on the internal HD since it's not too big. Thanks
Good work. I am going to give Pop OS a try. I have not installed yet but I am typing this from the live install using Firefox. I was very impressed with the way my audio interface was immediately recognized. I have a Behringer UMC 204hd and I got sound with out fighting through other options. I downloaded the NVIDIA choice, and that was one of the feature that drew me to Pop OS. My system is new that I built myself. Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia Gtx 1660 16gb ram. I may have done something wrong the first time but Etcher did not work for me. I had to use Rufus. I have an Asus x570 Tuf Gaming plus WiFi motherboard, and the bios is fussy. Being frendly to new hardware is what bought me to Pop. The only negative to me is that is marketed to programmers and tech folks and I am ne w to Linux. I am going to try to have a good Linux experience.
Why when after I’ve made all of the partitions, then I go to select use partition, then format for the main partition of the system that uses the EXT4 file system it shows a drop-down menu that says use as, and in the video it says :Boot (/boot/efi) but mine only shows : Boot(/boot) is this supposed to be different?
Boot up with the live Pop OS flash drive like he did. If the install pops up on it's own, exit it. Now hit the super key (windows key) and type gparted and hit enter. Make the free space on the windows partition like he did, then exit gparted and start the Pop OS setup (there's an icon for it). When setup gets to the partitioning, allow it to automatically create the partitions so you won't have to mess with it. It should say something like "install Pop OS alongside windows". What it will do is create an extended partition and stick other partitions inside it. If you do windows from scratch someday, only create a 500MB fat32 with boot and esp flags (use gparted from a live Linux usb) and a NTFS partition for windows (with no flags). FYI flags are created by simply right-clicking the partition and choosing manage flags. You should only have 2 partitions for windows. Swap doesn't count as a primary, so you could make the two other partitions like he did in this video. FYI, almost all other Linux installs will install a boot loader, meaning a colored screen at startup that allows you to choose an OS. If you have a boot loader like that, you don't have to create the second fat32 partition he did for POP OS. That's because the boot loader will be installed on that first fat32 partition that windows was already using. Make sure it's 500MB not smaller like in this video (I bet yours already is 500). Zorin OS is as popular as Pop and the installer does install a boot loader called GRUB (they almost all use grub). It has a nifty little count-down timer that when it gets to zero it chooses the default OS. You can edit the count-down time and the default OS later in settings. Keep in mind that with Linux you can always just make the free space from the windows partition and allow the install to create it's partitions as it sees fit. I use Pop OS on my desktop and Zorin on my laptop. Zorin OS rocks. It has a windows looking layout but I don't hold that against it. That actually helps new Linux users feel comfortable. The only thing that's missing in Zorin that Pop OS has is the auto tiling feature. With a little screen like a laptop you can't really use that anyway.
Great set-up video overall. Does anyone face issue with the boot partition at 17:11? For me the format is greyed out and it picks up ext4 as default partition for root and ultimately fails to install with configuring boot loader error. Any ideas?
Every attempt to install Pop! OS has been in vain. It will hang up and stop responding as soon as I click next at the “Keyboard Layout” screen while selecting default. Anyone know what’s going on. Same issue regardless of USB media used or DVD rom attempt.
Hey, so pop os works just fine. but when I go in the boot menu there isnt an option for windows 10 boot manager. My data didnt seem to get destroyed because I can still get it over pop os. Any idea how I can boot to windows again?
Thanks for the video, Im about to get pop os on a old laptop, not sure if I should take the entire drive or do a dual boot, but nice to know this is an option
I assume that if Pop! OS quits working the USB with the live mode of Pop! OS will serve as a recovery drive. An alternative is to create a Pop! OS recovery partition. The Pop! OS 22-04 is 8 GB and likely to grow so the partition size should be sized at twice that or 15 GiB. A GiB is 2**30. A GB is 10**9. Also, if you intend to try out different Linux distributions, a home partition is recommended.
Should home, usr, opt, tmp be make as partitions or just directories inside root? and should I enable back fast mode and secure mode after successful installation or the Pop OS will not run with that options?
Hello, I'm trying to install pop os (v 20.10) on my windows machine following your instructions, but when I get to "modify partitions" the application only sees the USB drive that I'm using to run PopOs, do you have any suggestions about why this happens?
Having trouble with dual boot option list. Doing this on an older Dell Inspiron 1440 with Win7. Install goes fine; however, I had to create an Extended partition and then put the Linux Boot, Swap, and OS partitions in Extension. On restart, the Boot Options don't show Linux and Windows as options. It only shows the hardware Internal HDD, USB, CD, etc. I think this is a limitation of the BIOS. Is there a way to establish a secondary boot option after selecting "Internal HDD". Perhaps a modification to the MBR?
I wonder why gparted at this stage won't let me choose between primary or logical partition? I don't want everything on the pop install to be primary 🤦🏼♂️
Quick question about files and partition usage. I'm assuming that Linux files, downloads, installs etc, stay on the root partition, and files on the windows partition stay there?
I'm dual booting from an external ssd. The first partition forces 1 MB preceeding and immediately gives the warning "Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some operations may be unavailable.The following packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools" I tried deleting and attempting once more, it keeps giving the same error. Later, the installation fails.
Ok I done every thing exactly but when I press on "Modify Partitions..." in order to create the unallocated space, an error always pops up: "Not all of the space available to /dev/nvme01 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 4544 blockes) or continue with the current setting?" So, I choose "Ignore" of course because I afraid to miss with it, but it eventually fail to continue... So I tried to avoid that by checking "Use Partition" with the EFI Partition as "Boot" without formatting it and the unallocated space as "Root", and then I found the button "Erase and Install" turned to be available but, when I press it, a new error appears: "Installing Pop!-OS 20.10 failed, possibly due to a hardware error. Detailed logs were written to /temp/installer.log. Your device may not restart properly." !! please help me with that..
Install is not letting,me create final partition ... it says I can only have 4 primary partitions :( ... what to do please? I’m running Windows 7 with NTFS ... trying to load POP OS .... if I choose “extended partition for any then I can’t choose format. Also why fat32 instead of ext4 for boot? TIA
the only issue i have is that i dont know how to setup grub correctly, i've tried grub-efi-amd64 and grub-customizer and cant select wich OS start on boot. i've to do it the boot options way
You create your own boot partion and use it ==sda5==, but in their docs they say to use the existing boot partition from the previous OS, you already have it ==sda2==. So which way is the correct one?
I managed to install it, and it worked great, on the initial restart, however the second time it restarted, just a black screen shows up, when I select PopOS from the boot menu. Any ideas?
Hello there As per your instructions I made a bootable usb using balenaetcher but when I tried to boot it show the following error Failed to open /efi/boot/mmx64.efi not found What should I do ?? Please help me out to fix this problem
So Pop OS doesn't use Grub. If would like to set up a triple or Quadrupal boot system using Grub If I give Pop OS it's own boot partition and keep it separate from the Grub install will this work? If I can boot into Ubuntu, I have some tools installed to fix Grub and also scan for other OS's on the hard drives I have on this computer. I currently have 3 hard drives. I may need to use a spare hard drive and install Pop OS on it and then place it in this computer and see if that tool finds the OS and I can create a Grub entry to boot into Pop OS.
Yes, that's UEFI. If your system doesn't allow non-Microsoft bootloaders, then that could be a potential barrier. None of my systems have that restriction though.
Please also make video or add it in the description on how to remove the side loaded OS after it’s been created your way.There’s a lot of misinformation out here
For me it says: "Installing Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS failed, possibly due to a hardware error. Detailed logs were written to /tmp/-installer.log Your device may not restart properly." I tried installing again but the same error displays. Any suggestions?
A little side note for 11:48-11:25, you can do the same thing in Windows before you start the live USB.
Start menu -> Disk Management
Right click on the NTFS partition you're editing (box with blue line above it) and select "Shrink". Windows will automatically trim the partition to fit your current saved files AND leave a little extra for rollover.
I would recommend doing parititions in windows, instead of doing it in linux
As trivial as this process is, I did have a few takeaways! Thanks for making quality content!
Thanks Jay for stepping us through the process. You made a complicated task easy. Having both OS's certainly gives users the best of both worlds.
Thanks for the great advice. Dual booting Pop!_OS is definitely not obvious. The distro managers could definitely explain or automate this process.
Jay, this comment is not about Pop OS but *is* about dual-boot with Windows 10. I made my first move into Linux only about a month ago by (ultimately) settling on MX Linux as the best (for me) choice to load on an old and very hardware-limited Acer Aspire One netbook. The first distro I put on it was Mint 19.2 with the Cinnamon desktop but quickly realized that the hardware wasn't up to it (only 2 gig of RAM). This video on a dual-boot installation of Pop! OS with Windows 10 was the final bit of encouragement I needed to go back to Mint 19.2/Cinnamon and perform a similar dual-OS install on a second laptop, this time on a Lenovo Flex 3 (with more RAM). And, in fact, I performed it just tonight...and successfully! In this video, I didn't pick up on any kind of cautionary note from you about dual boot setups. However, during all of the considerable Linux-focused UA-cam viewing I've done during my learning process, I came upon another UA-cam-er who (admittedly 4 years ago) posted a video in which he came down firmly against dual boot (calling it the Dual Boot Deception). He claimed it created a very unstable environment for the Linux OS. It's possible he's changed his mind in the years since...and it's also possible that there are two firmly-entrenched camps on this. Can you provide more insight? Is there anything I need to be on the lookout for with dual-boot...or anything I should do in any pro-active fashion?
guy, you are mad. system76 should sponsor your video for how boss mode the partition part was. I felt like I was witness a modern work of art
The way you explain is perfect...just perfect.
Nice video. 2 things missing IMHO:
- You did forget to add the /recovery partition (4GB FAT32) which is a nice feature of Pop!_OS
- Is there a way to configure systemd-boot to manage what OS to boot (with timer)?
I'm about to install Pop_Os next to my Win 10 (might wait until 20.04 comes out) and I would be interested in the recovery partition. After I create the 4 gigs fat32 partition how do I tell Pop Os that this one should be the recovery partition?
Barnabás Horváth > Hi, just flag/format the 4GB FAT32 dedicated partition as /recovery from the wizard (after exiting Gparted)
@@Speccy48k Gotcha, thank you very much!
I'm a noob to this, so what's a recovery partition?
I came here for that systemd-boot config to manage what OS to boot actually... lol or installing GRUB maybe =/
You are a superb educator, sir. This video is much more clear and detailed than that other guy. ;-) Plus which, he JUST LEARNED you can have multiple partitions, and he's already telling others how to do it?? Keep up the good work, man, and smile a little, once in a while. ;) ;)
You are savior..!!
Pop OS installation is kinda confusing for me. I am messed up my windows partition doing so.. this video helped me, thanks 👍
After researching all of the Linux OS available, I think PoP Os is my best choice. I have used Windows for years so I love the idea of dual boot. Thanks for the Tut! I'm learning more and more every time I venture into Linux.
I am getting error at 15:36 saying it is not possible to make more then 4 primary partitions.
I made a duel boot on my laptop with kali and ubuntu before, so I was a bit familiar with the process, but man the way you walk through it is very helpful I walked away from this vid understanding way more about duel boot than like 5 other vids I've watched... I just subbed...great job man....
Even though this video is over 2 years old, but it can be applied for Windows 11 + Pop! OS 21.10. Thank you so much Jay. 🤓
This was the second video I watched and it was simpler than the first. Thanks for your time. I have run the Live Pop-OS and it does get the wifi going and my printer. So here I go!!!!
Thank you! One thing to note is that Pop OS requires a minimum of 1024 MB for the boot partition now.
It covered entire process of dual booting, Thanks 👍
Your explanation for using Gparted was particularly helpful. Gave me exactly the info I needed.
Thank you! I just successfully installed Pop-os. I'm dual booting with no issues :)
Hi
Can you please explain how you did so you get the dual boot menu, thanks
This is excellent! Very well-presented and easy to follow! I actually made a dual-boot of Bodhi next to Lubuntu, and I have GRUB appearing on boot-up, so I can select between the two - it works great! But I see that Windows/Pop OS is a different story - and it looks much nicer! 🙂
In 17:11 there it says .. EFI partition is not a GTP disk...
What should I do?
Not what i expected. I was thinking about you showing how to setup grub to work and not having to switch from bios
Every Pop!_OS dual boot tutorial has at least one of this comment haha. I'm also new to Linux (hence why I'm watching this video) but if I was to try and paraphrase what I've seen other people say in response to comments like yours, I would say that it's difficult to set up grub with Pop!_OS because Pop uses something called systemd, and these tutorials try to be more beginner friendly. I hope I could help but I don't even know what I'm talking about...
At 17:31 my boot partition shows a exclamation mark saying (EFI partition is not GPT disk) pleas help I did the same steps as you did don't know why it keeps happening..
Usually, when dual booting with Windows its better to resize the NTFS partition using the built-in Windows tool to avoid avoid data loose.
I've never lost data doing it this way, doing it from Linux has proven stable for me.
@@LearnLinuxTV Yeah IK its less likely something wrong will happen but at least if it does one can blame Windows 😂
For newer windows 10 laptop owners..make sure to disable fast boot, disable secure boot and then Enable SATA Ahci mode.
At 11:44, when I press custom install, I get a window which shows me 30 gb dev/sda drive.
Under modify partition, i have two types: dev/sda and dev/nvme... even after applying changes to the disk of interest, still dev/nvme with 500 gb of storage is not shown and hence i am unable to proceed further. What is shown is the pendrive dataspace. Please help as soon as possible.
God bless you, I been struggling to find a useful way to install Linux correctly but u are the one who showed me how !! All respect man
Super helpful for formatting my HD for my new installation of Pop! Thanks
Thanks. Proper guidance. Successfully able to dual boot first time in my first try because of you.
17:12 - the Format switch and Filesystem are greyed out, Filesystem defaults to ext4. Is that ok?
Well I guess it's not ok - it failed to install "due to hardware error"
Hi Past-Jay! Future person here! Thanks for this nice video, seems very simple, I thought it'll get much tougher than this!
hey there, thanks for the tutorial.
but am not getting option to select os i want to boot to while restarting. It automatically boots the POP OS.
Any solution?
automatically it will boot to one of the two
before it boots up either one though, you have a moment where you can press a key to open your boot menu and from there you can choose
it's all in the video
Thanks! Another tutorial showed that you need to install grub bootloader to be able to boot back to windows again and I was asking myself why not just use the default boot menu that comes with the laptop's bios?. Looks like I was right.
Thank you man
Keep up the Good work
dude this has to be the best video ever!
This video save me from so much extra headaches. Thank you so much! Keep up the good work :)
So unlike with a GRUBbed distro like Ubuntu, the only way for me to access Windows in my Pop OS dual boot is by accessing the one-time boot menu and selecting it manually? There's no intervening screen with the option for one or the other (such as with GRUB) ?
Incredibly useful info! Thanks!
Nice tutorial but if i wanted to delete pop os how could i like delete the created partiotions and use it again for windows?
Bit late, but you’d have to just delete the partitions used for Pop, boot to Windows, open the Partition (Disk) Manager and reassign them to Windows
BEWARE! I had nothing but frustration, trying to get this to work on two old laptops from 2006 and 2011. I tried loading POP!_OS on top of both Win7x64 Pro and Win10x64 Pro. Ain't gonna happen. Even after I found instructions from another source on getting grub up to snuff (since just using F8 or F12 CANNOT work on these older computers, where those boot menus are burned into ROM), I hit a brick wall when gparted threw up the error "partition can't be outside the disk." This happened on both laptops. I believe gparted is trying to read the old fashioned MBR as if it was the more modern GPT setup. I might be able to switch to GPT, but it's waaaaay more trouble than it's worth, especially since I'm not sure that's the only problem.
Instead, I ordered a used 250GB 6 Gb/s hard drive for $8 and change on eBay. I'll try to do a clean install, just to try out POP!_OS. I think this tutorial would be much improved if it contained a warning about the minimum specs for the target disk. What works on one machine, doesn't work for all machines. The BIOS on these older laptops wasn't built with UEFI (see 8:03) to handle GPT style boot records, and that might be ANOTHER issue if i tried to switch to the newer system. Not going to happen.
Most thorough write-up out there. Thank you!
I found that POP!_OS version 19.10 will install on a single partition alongside the Windows 10 partition. It is not necessary to create the additional SWAP or BOOT partitions. This is helpful for people with a limit of 4 partitions on a MBR hard drive. After installing, I was able to access my datafiles on the Windows partition from within POP in the Files folder. However, I could not boot to Windows. In order to boot to Windows and have a dual boot system, I had to manipulate the GRUB file in POP terminal window to add a reference to the Windows directory. Dual boot is not automatic on my system. The presenter must have had his drive configured to allow more than 4 partitions and used a system that creates dual boot automatically. It would be good if he made another video explaining the configuration of his hard drive. Here are the commands I used in the POP terminal window to enable dual boot: sudo os-prober If you get a message that the command is not recognized, type os-prober and it will prompt you to add the os-prober application. Then run sudo os-prober again. If this detects Windows, then type the command: sudo update-grub Then restart your system and open the boot options menu and select to boot to your hard drive. Another window will pop up asking you which partition. Select the Windows partition or the POP partition and it will boot to your selection. Here is the URL reference for this procedure. www.trishtech.com/2017/09/quickly-add-windows-10-to-grub-menu-after-installing-ubuntu/ There are other ways to create a dual boot different from this but his apparently works for older systems.
I wish Pop just used Grub
you can use grub4win
@@aymanhassan8178 The heck is that?
@@EliSantana it's boot manager that can be installed from Windows it simply a grub but for Windows
@@aymanhassan8178 You can't install other boot loaders within windows using UEFI. This has been the case for a while now.
@@EliSantana no you can i have done this to my system
I like your Linux videos. I am a Windows 10 tech support type critter - enjoying PoP OS. However, i noticed at time 21:32 that your Win 10 install is not activated. This would restrict certain things happening on Win 10. Just checking ( as you did not state via RUN 'WINVER' ... that install to be 1809, 1903 or 1909 .... ? ) So for tech feedback ..what version of Win 10 were you using ? RUN > WINVER
This is the best, understanding video
What key com combination gives you that selection screen at 19:05?
I would also like to know. Did you figure it out?
@@heinrichkreuser2659 yep, to me it was keeping F8 pressed before pressing the power button, this is working on an Asus laptop
Thanks for this video, it was very helpful, even for me as a old linux user :)
Thank you! Needed help with the partitioning
It is not possible to create more than 4 primary partitions😳😳 help me.
Amazing. Worked just right.
I am facing a problem installation problem.. the screen at 17.22 is not showing any partition bar instead it is a clean white/black background with the text of "select....swab partition" on top an absolutely nothing below it
I have a surface go that has a built-in mini-sd card slot. I couldn't find a way to boot from the card like would do from a usb. But watching your video I thought (I'm a newbie at this). Could it be possible , to create the partition for the "Pop boot" on the internal HD and have the other two partitions on the external mini-sd card? That way I can choose the partition inside the HD to be a bootable option in the BIOS but it doesn't take all the space (20GB +)? Basically I'm trying to save as much space as I can on the internal HD since it's not too big. Thanks
Good work. I am going to give Pop OS a try. I have not installed yet but I am typing this from the live install using Firefox. I was very impressed with the way my audio interface was immediately recognized. I have a Behringer UMC 204hd and I got sound with out fighting through other options. I downloaded the NVIDIA choice, and that was one of the feature that drew me to Pop OS. My system is new that I built myself. Ryzen 5 3600, Nvidia Gtx 1660 16gb ram. I may have done something wrong the first time but Etcher did not work for me. I had to use Rufus. I have an Asus x570 Tuf Gaming plus WiFi motherboard, and the bios is fussy. Being frendly to new hardware is what bought me to Pop. The only negative to me is that is marketed to programmers and tech folks and I am ne w to Linux. I am going to try to have a good Linux experience.
Why when after I’ve made all of the partitions, then I go to select use partition, then format for the main partition of the system that uses the EXT4 file system it shows a drop-down menu that says use as, and in the video it says :Boot (/boot/efi) but mine only shows : Boot(/boot) is this supposed to be different?
I get an error that says: "It is not possible to create more than 4 primary partitions" what do i do?
Boot up with the live Pop OS flash drive like he did. If the install pops up on it's own, exit it. Now hit the super key (windows key) and type gparted and hit enter. Make the free space on the windows partition like he did, then exit gparted and start the Pop OS setup (there's an icon for it). When setup gets to the partitioning, allow it to automatically create the partitions so you won't have to mess with it. It should say something like "install Pop OS alongside windows". What it will do is create an extended partition and stick other partitions inside it. If you do windows from scratch someday, only create a 500MB fat32 with boot and esp flags (use gparted from a live Linux usb) and a NTFS partition for windows (with no flags). FYI flags are created by simply right-clicking the partition and choosing manage flags. You should only have 2 partitions for windows. Swap doesn't count as a primary, so you could make the two other partitions like he did in this video.
FYI, almost all other Linux installs will install a boot loader, meaning a colored screen at startup that allows you to choose an OS. If you have a boot loader like that, you don't have to create the second fat32 partition he did for POP OS. That's because the boot loader will be installed on that first fat32 partition that windows was already using. Make sure it's 500MB not smaller like in this video (I bet yours already is 500). Zorin OS is as popular as Pop and the installer does install a boot loader called GRUB (they almost all use grub). It has a nifty little count-down timer that when it gets to zero it chooses the default OS. You can edit the count-down time and the default OS later in settings. Keep in mind that with Linux you can always just make the free space from the windows partition and allow the install to create it's partitions as it sees fit. I use Pop OS on my desktop and Zorin on my laptop. Zorin OS rocks. It has a windows looking layout but I don't hold that against it. That actually helps new Linux users feel comfortable. The only thing that's missing in Zorin that Pop OS has is the auto tiling feature. With a little screen like a laptop you can't really use that anyway.
Great set-up video overall. Does anyone face issue with the boot partition at 17:11? For me the format is greyed out and it picks up ext4 as default partition for root and ultimately fails to install with configuring boot loader error. Any ideas?
Same here. Did you solved now?
Every attempt to install Pop! OS has been in vain. It will hang up and stop responding as soon as I click next at the “Keyboard Layout” screen while selecting default. Anyone know what’s going on. Same issue regardless of USB media used or DVD rom attempt.
Gparted was prompting me to change partition to gpt, I ended up wiping the disk. But I had taken the backup as you told us. Will try to do this again.
I would recommend doing disk partitions in windows using disk management, instead of doing it in Linux
Gparted does it better but doing a bulk partitioning on windows and fine tuning it in gparted is good imo
Hey,
so pop os works just fine. but when I go in the boot menu there isnt an option for windows 10 boot manager. My data didnt seem to get destroyed because I can still get it over pop os. Any idea how I can boot to windows again?
such a good guideence .. amazing..
it saved...my time..
straight install without error.
thanks man..
Thanks for the video, Im about to get pop os on a old laptop, not sure if I should take the entire drive or do a dual boot, but nice to know this is an option
hi! if i want to erase the partition made for pop os, how can i do? in case i want another os or just one it was before (win 10)? thank you!
I assume that if Pop! OS quits working the USB with the live mode of Pop! OS will serve as a recovery drive. An alternative is to create a Pop! OS recovery partition. The Pop! OS 22-04 is 8 GB and likely to grow so the partition size should be sized at twice that or 15 GiB. A GiB is 2**30. A GB is 10**9. Also, if you intend to try out different Linux distributions, a home partition is recommended.
Should home, usr, opt, tmp be make as partitions or just directories inside root? and should I enable back fast mode and secure mode after successful installation or the Pop OS will not run with that options?
up vote for the monotone "greetings to you future person."
Hello, I'm trying to install pop os (v 20.10) on my windows machine following your instructions, but when I get to "modify partitions" the application only sees the USB drive that I'm using to run PopOs, do you have any suggestions about why this happens?
Having trouble with dual boot option list. Doing this on an older Dell Inspiron 1440 with Win7. Install goes fine; however, I had to create an Extended partition and then put the Linux Boot, Swap, and OS partitions in Extension. On restart, the Boot Options don't show Linux and Windows as options. It only shows the hardware Internal HDD, USB, CD, etc. I think this is a limitation of the BIOS. Is there a way to establish a secondary boot option after selecting "Internal HDD". Perhaps a modification to the MBR?
Dumb question. If I have a blank 1TB SSD in my system, can I just do a "Clean Install" and choose that drive instead of making partitions? Thanks!
do I need to keep in the flash drive to boot it up after setting it up?
I wonder why gparted at this stage won't let me choose between primary or logical partition?
I don't want everything on the pop install to be primary 🤦🏼♂️
Quick question about files and partition usage. I'm assuming that Linux files, downloads, installs etc, stay on the root partition, and files on the windows partition stay there?
I'm dual booting from an external ssd. The first partition forces 1 MB preceeding and immediately gives the warning "Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some operations may be unavailable.The following packages is required for fat32 file system support: dosfstools, mtools"
I tried deleting and attempting once more, it keeps giving the same error. Later, the installation fails.
Ok I done every thing exactly but when I press on "Modify Partitions..." in order to create the unallocated space, an error always pops up:
"Not all of the space available to /dev/nvme01 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 4544 blockes) or continue with the current setting?"
So, I choose "Ignore" of course because I afraid to miss with it, but it eventually fail to continue...
So I tried to avoid that by checking "Use Partition" with the EFI Partition as "Boot" without formatting it and the unallocated space as "Root", and then I found the button "Erase and Install" turned to be available but, when I press it, a new error appears:
"Installing Pop!-OS 20.10 failed, possibly due to a hardware error. Detailed logs were written to /temp/installer.log. Your device may not restart properly." !!
please help me with that..
SO with this method does the computer default to auto boot windows 10 or will is auto boot PoP os ?
Install is not letting,me create final partition ... it says I can only have 4 primary partitions :( ... what to do please? I’m running Windows 7 with NTFS ... trying to load POP OS .... if I choose “extended partition for any then I can’t choose format. Also why fat32 instead of ext4 for boot? TIA
the only issue i have is that i dont know how to setup grub correctly, i've tried grub-efi-amd64 and grub-customizer and cant select wich OS start on boot. i've to do it the boot options way
How about if you have Linux as the only opsys and you want to dual boot with win 10 on a secondary drive?
You create your own boot partion and use it ==sda5==, but in their docs they say to use the existing boot partition from the previous OS, you already have it ==sda2==. So which way is the correct one?
Unable to bios why?
I managed to install it, and it worked great, on the initial restart, however the second time it restarted, just a black screen shows up, when I select PopOS from the boot menu. Any ideas?
unplug the usb
I am getting a 'EFI partition is not on a GPT disk' error while selecting a partition for boot. How can I fix this??
The best video. Very useful
Thank you so much! It worked perfectly without any errors.
I am stuck on the partition process, it says me no more possible partition above 4... What should i do ?
Me too!
how bad is it to not close the window after resizing the first time?
Hey, does this method still works now, in 2021 with the latest Pop_OS?
While installing my internal ssd isn't detected. Any idea why?
Hello there
As per your instructions I made a bootable usb using balenaetcher but when I tried to boot it show the following error
Failed to open /efi/boot/mmx64.efi not found
What should I do ?? Please help me out to fix this problem
"...pressing it over and over again like a maniac..." relatable
But how to install, so that there is a choice when starting the computer as grub?
If you have another hard drive for storage, is it possible to access those files with both Windows and Linux? Is it recommended to do that or not?
So Pop OS doesn't use Grub. If would like to set up a triple or Quadrupal boot system using Grub If I give Pop OS it's own boot partition and keep it separate from the Grub install will this work? If I can boot into Ubuntu, I have some tools installed to fix Grub and also scan for other OS's on the hard drives I have on this computer. I currently have 3 hard drives. I may need to use a spare hard drive and install Pop OS on it and then place it in this computer and see if that tool finds the OS and I can create a Grub entry to boot into Pop OS.
In my booting screen it is showing ipv4 and ipv6 what to choose
Thank you. Running popos on my x1 extreme.
Thanks, man. Best regards from Brazil 😊
Was that a UEFI boot loader? I might miss something but how to deal with microsoft boot protection? Big fan, great channel: thanks!
Yes, that's UEFI. If your system doesn't allow non-Microsoft bootloaders, then that could be a potential barrier. None of my systems have that restriction though.
You can turn off Secure Boot or similar options, I think.
Please also make video or add it in the description on how to remove the side loaded OS after it’s been created your way.There’s a lot of misinformation out here
For me it says:
"Installing Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS failed, possibly due to a hardware error. Detailed logs were written to /tmp/-installer.log Your device may not restart properly."
I tried installing again but the same error displays. Any suggestions?
Same here. Did you solved
Yeah, I had a hard time but I figured out that I haven't disabled secure boot😅
Can you show using a boot loader/menu so we don't have to boot to bios to choose which os to run?