Finally, be mindful not to accidentally delete or modify the Windows boot partition. Has anyone tried to setup a dual or triple boot (ESXi 5.5, Linux, Windows Server 2012R2) machine This is for an app and controller card testing environment - at the moment we're dual-booting Linux/Windows and changing the startup disk through the server's boot menu for ESXi. Ensure that the correct partition is showed in the field at the bottom of the screen. Then proceed, don't assign anything for Ubuntu yet - you'll do that within windows.Īlso, Nico mentions in the Ubuntu installation part to be sure that the 'Device for boot loader installation' is assigned to the partition with the available space - I just want to emphasize you must not be looking at the checkboxes. Then assign whatever you want for the windows partition, as indicated it will create several other partitions and leave the rest in unassigned. When starting over, delete all the partitions as instructed to where you only have one with the entire disk as available space. Lesson learned - I assumed I needed to partition in the first stage for both Windows and Ubuntu.

I will say that I can understand how other comments had trouble because it would be easy to get into trouble, particularly when you're partitioning the disk initially. This tutorial will guide you on how to perform installation of Ubuntu alongside with machines that come pre-installed with Windows 10 or 8 in dual-boot. The process took a few hours but ran pretty much in the background. I tried to dual boot before and had trouble. As one poster said it's the best I've seen, personally, on this topic.

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