Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default

Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by GekkePrutser on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:10AM (#32025094)

On the other hand, having dualboot with Linux on my ThinkPad T490s managed to break my bitlocker on the windows partition every time Linux updated. Not sure why, as I really needed Windows for work I had to revert and didn't have enough time to really investigate.

Entering the recovery key is enough but the problem is my work uses software to rotate the recovery key and the last time the stored key didn't work. Probably it was just rotated but not updated in the system yet. So I had to restore fully and I removed Linux.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by nicce on Friday July 08, 2022 @07:03AM (#32025536)

You might have used the same EFI partition for both, which is always unsafe. In the future, better make own EFI partition for every OS unless you manually define directory hierarchy.

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Re:Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by def... by GekkePrutser on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:45PM (#32028673)

I did indeed. I thought it was OK to do that. I noticed they both made their own directory in the EFI partition. And it was what Ubuntu's installer did by default when it detected windows.

Good to know, thanks! To be honest in this day & age of virtualisation I hardly ever dual-boot anymore.

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