[clug] Running Win8 under grub, or VBox + physical partition
steve jenkin
sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Mon Oct 15 23:26:41 MDT 2012
I looked at an ASUS "all-in-one" today and IIRC it comes preconfigured
with Win-8. I can't recall the variant, so many and I don't keep current.
The last time I tried to setup a Windows Multiboot, it was for VISTA.
Microsoft had fiddled with partition requirements and boot checks, never
quite got it to work. ran out of patience :-(
I haven't researched this on the Net yet, thought I'd ask the list first
for sites, search terms, advice and war stories...
What I'd like to do:
- buy and off-the-shelf All-in-one-PC preconfigured with Win 7 or 8.
- make it multiboot Linux and grub, preserving the Winders install
- Preferably, run Virtual Box under Linux and auto-start Winders from
the physical partition.
Andrew J. used to have a 'compute farm' of desktop PC's setup similarly
(LNX+VBox+Win). Don't know the Win version (XP?).
Have others tried this?
Do I need a minimum or maximum level of Win 8/7?
Have they moved to EFI boot and locked things down?
Any gotchas on configs, hardware, BIOS, features, ...?
Thanks in Advance
steve
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