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<blockquote data-quote="wat0114" data-source="post: 1025539" data-attributes="member: 91306">MX-21 is not ideal for dual-booting with Windows because it doesn&#039;t support secure boot. But I like the distro immensely, and since I refuse to disable secure boot, I get around it with a somewhat unorthodox method that some people might not favor, but it&#039;s easy to use and adds only a few more seconds of manual user input to the boot sequence when booting into MX-21.I have a recent snapshot .iso of MX-21 burned to a USB stick using MX Live USB maker. When I want to boot into Linux, which resides on the same hdd as Windows 11, but with its own partitions for root, home and swap, I simply first plug in the usb drive, tap F12 key when powering on laptop,&nbsp; then follow the next steps utilizing the grub rescue method:[ATTACH]273030[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273031[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273032[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273033[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273034[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273035[/ATTACH]You just have to know where the grub menu is located. On my setup it&#039;s on hd1,6 as seen in the fourth screen shot. As an added bunus, if something goes wrong with the Linux environment installed on my laptop&#039;s hdd, I can simply boot to the USB drive and quickly re-install it from the live environment and return to the state the snapshot installed on the USB was taken.I&#039;m not sure, but I believe there are other Debian-based distros that include the boot rescue menus feature as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wat0114, post: 1025539, member: 91306"] MX-21 is not ideal for dual-booting with Windows because it doesn't support secure boot. But I like the distro immensely, and since I refuse to disable secure boot, I get around it with a somewhat unorthodox method that some people might not favor, but it's easy to use and adds only a few more seconds of manual user input to the boot sequence when booting into MX-21. I have a recent snapshot .iso of MX-21 burned to a USB stick using MX Live USB maker. When I want to boot into Linux, which resides on the same hdd as Windows 11, but with its own partitions for root, home and swap, I simply first plug in the usb drive, tap F12 key when powering on laptop, then follow the next steps utilizing the grub rescue method: [ATTACH]273030[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273031[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273032[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273033[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273034[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273035[/ATTACH] You just have to know where the grub menu is located. On my setup it's on hd1,6 as seen in the fourth screen shot. As an added bunus, if something goes wrong with the Linux environment installed on my laptop's hdd, I can simply boot to the USB drive and quickly re-install it from the live environment and return to the state the snapshot installed on the USB was taken. I'm not sure, but I believe there are other Debian-based distros that include the boot rescue menus feature as well. [/QUOTE]

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