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Gonna give Linux another try, any guidance is welcome! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Dagnet@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:

1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.

Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?

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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you mean your Windows boot partition?

Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.

The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.

You're gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, mostly fixed stuff but now Im not getting audio. It defaults to my GPU's hdmi audio instead of my onboard sound

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Do the audio settings show your onboard audio device?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I ran some terminal cmd (sry dont remember what it was) that gave me a weird UI inside the terminal that actually showed my onboard sound so I think my pc recognizes it somehow somewhere

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 6 hours ago

You don't have to use the terminal, if you installed regular Fedora with GNOME, you can just search for "Sound" and it should come up with this:

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If you installed Fedora KDE you can search for "Sound" as well and it should look like this:

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