Re: [PLUG] Dual booting Linux and Windows

["Eric H. Johnson via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Keith,

Making Linux the primary OS runs into the same problem. The fundamental problem is that Linux does not see the SSD and the BIOS doesn't seem to allow the settings necessary to see it. Under virtualization, the performance is actually worse than on the 5 year old machine it is replacing. This is particularly evident when playing videos. Not a huge problem since they can always be played from Windows, just not the ideal solution I was hoping for.

Regards,
Eric


Yikes... that's surprising.  Worrying about properly powered USB ports should not be a think in 2020 (though I confess I did purchase an inline USB power dongle last year so I could check such things after having concerns about some Chromebooks at the time).

Glad you got it working.  For what its worth... these days instead of dual booting, I just wipe Windows (or capture an image of it first), install Linux and then run Windows in virtualization.  I'm so rarely in Windows personally that it hasn't been worth it for at least 5 years now.  I know that's not the case for everyone but having M$ stuff virtually provides me with the ability to test things safely as well as manipulate user bare metal imagines.  When Windows get corrupt or blows up generally, its a 15 min burn-in plus another 5 minutes to create the user's account on computer.

I only mention that to say, if you ever want the reverse of what you are doing (i.e. Windows guest / Linux host) that probably can work for you too and it is not hard to do.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric H. Johnson via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
To: "PLUG Philadelphia Linux Users Group" <PLUG@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Dual booting Linux and Windows

Walt, et al,

Got it. It was the stinkin' USB port. The drive is powered by the USB port.
Perhaps on this machine, only one port is a high power port capable of driving it. The other ports see the drive, but can't mount it.

Thanks,
Eric

On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 06:57:06PM -0400, Eric H. Johnson via plug wrote:
> All,
> 
> Almost there. Gave up on dual booting, but have it running under 
> VirtualBox. Last problem to solve is connecting to a USB external 
> drive. It is Ext3 or Ext4 file format, so Windows can't read it 
> directly, and it is encrypted. VIrtualBox sees the drive and I have 
> added it to devices for this VM. According to what I read, I also need 
> to add my user to the vboxusers group. That group does not exist, but 
> vboxsf does. I added my user to that group. When I try to add the 
> device, VirtualBox gives an error of "Failure to attach to the USB 
> device...".
> 
> Any ideas what I am missing?

As it happens I've also been experimenting with virtualbox this week. One thing you could try is to mount the drive in Linux, then make it a shared folder from the virtualbox UI.

Walt

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