Hi all...
I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I have to upgrade from win10 to win 11 and my trusted technician said that doing so will overwrite the boot loader but does not know how to reinstall it.
I googled around and the procedure seems a bit above my skill...it mention
of using e.g. my M9 bootable USB to a live version and then at a console
give a series of commands to...I am afraid of finding myself in an unknown territory...given that all my important Datas are in a separate D
partition and not much is stored in Linux I was wondering if it is not
better after all reinstall Mageia9...but even here I have a difficulty...I remember that wwhhen I installed it I had to go shortly into the BIOS and make some selection Legacy or Uefi...if I remember well
Below are details of my system which can be of any use to suggest to what
or which way to go.
p.s.
/boot/EFI
/usr
/home are on a separate partition
I was wondering if I go for a reinstall is sufficient only format the / boot/EFI instead of reinstalling everything
I live in India I may not be able to answer right away any suggestion
which may come...
Thank you in advance for your help
Santo
[santo@localhost ~]$ uname -r
6.6.105-desktop-1.mga9
[santo@localhost ~]$
[santo@localhost ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 447.1G 0 disk
roLroCsda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/EFI
roLroCsda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part
roLroCsda3 8:3 0 97.1G 0 part /media/windows
roLroCsda4 8:4 0 498M 0 part
roLroCsda5 8:5 0 97.7G 0 part /run/media/santo/Data
roLroCsda6 8:6 0 7.8G 0 part /
roLroCsda7 8:7 0 7.8G 0 part [SWAP]
roLroCsda8 8:8 0 29.3G 0 part /usr
rooroCsda9 8:9 0 206.9G 0 part /home
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
[santo@localhost ~]$
Device Name santo-pc
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10100 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)
Storage 447 GB SSD CT480BX500SSD1
Graphics Card Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)
Device ID CB777717-1CBC-4D9F-94BC-65B025F0D0A2
Product ID 00330-81487-31919-AA418
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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Hi all...
I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I have to upgrade from win10 to win 11 and my trusted technician said that doing so will overwrite the boot loader but does not know how to reinstall it.
I googled around and the procedure seems a bit above my skill...it mention of using e.g. my M9 bootable USB to a live version and then at a console give a series of commands to...I am afraid of finding myself in an unknown territory...given that all my important Datas are in a separate D
partition and not much is stored in Linux I was wondering if it is not better after all reinstall Mageia9...but even here I have a difficulty...I remember that wwhhen I installed it I had to go shortly into the BIOS and make some selection Legacy or Uefi...if I remember well
Below are details of my system which can be of any use to suggest to what
or which way to go.
p.s.
/boot/EFI
/usr
On Tue, 9 Dec 2025 09:43:22 -0000 (UTC), santo wrote:
Have you looked at System Rescue, https://www.system-rescue.org on the
Web?
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9 on this
Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then upgrade that to
MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for release.
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9 on this
Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then upgrade that to
MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as you
read this.
TJ
On 12/12/2025 6:57 am, TJ wrote:
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9 on this
Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then upgrade that to
MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as you
read this.
TJ
Thank you, TJ ..... and all the others involved with MGA.
Guess this means I should get around to "installing" the MGA9 iso onto a
USB so I can install it on this Win11 desktop Computer .... then upgrade that to MGA10.
On 2025-12-12, Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
On 12/12/2025 6:57 am, TJ wrote:
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9
on this Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then
upgrade that to MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for
release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as
you read this.
TJ
Thank you, TJ ..... and all the others involved with MGA.
Guess this means I should get around to "installing" the MGA9 iso
onto a USB so I can install it on this Win11 desktop Computer ....
then upgrade that to MGA10.
Remember that Win11 forces you to "register" and have an wifi or
ethernet connection to install it, so you can "sign away your
rights" before installing or first starting up Windows 11. It sounds
like you have already done so (ie win11 is installed and
wirking).However, if not, there is a way of geting around this look
for "install win11 without internet."
On 2025-12-12, Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
On 12/12/2025 6:57 am, TJ wrote:
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9
on this Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then
upgrade that to MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for
release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as
you read this.
TJ
Thank you, TJ ..... and all the others involved with MGA.
Guess this means I should get around to "installing" the MGA9 iso
onto a USB so I can install it on this Win11 desktop Computer ....
then upgrade that to MGA10.
Remember that Win11 forces you to "register" and have an wifi or
ethernet connection to install it, so you can "sign away your
rights"
before installing or first starting up Windows 11. It sounds like you
have already done so (ie win11 is installed and wirking).However, if
not, there is a way of geting around this look for "install win11
without internet."
On 12/12/2025 6:57 am, TJ wrote:
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9 on this
Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then upgrade that to
MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as you
read this.
TJ
Thank you, TJ ..... and all the others involved with MGA.
Guess this means I should get around to "installing" the MGA9 iso onto a
USB so I can install it on this Win11 desktop Computer .... then upgrade that to MGA10.
On 2025-12-12 04:01, Daniel70 wrote:
On 12/12/2025 6:57 am, TJ wrote:
On 2025-12-09 05:58, Daniel70 wrote:
Good luck. (one day soon/eventually) I'll stick MageiaLinux 9 on
this Win11 Desktop in Dual Boot fashion .... and then upgrade that
to MageiaLinux 10 which is a bit overdue for release.
Cauldron (Mageia 10) alpha version isos are being tested by QA as you
read this.
TJ
Thank you, TJ ..... and all the others involved with MGA.
Guess this means I should get around to "installing" the MGA9 iso onto
a USB so I can install it on this Win11 desktop Computer .... then
upgrade that to MGA10.
Considering that MGA9 has been out for around two years, it probably is.
But, note that I said the alpha isos are being tested. What I failed to mention is that these are the first round of alpha isos, definitely not ready to be released to the public yet. Depending on what we find, and
how easy the issues are to fix, it could be quite a while before we have
an Official MGA10 release.
In the meantime, MGA8 has been EOL and not receiving any updates since
three months after MGA9 was released, meaning it is now around two years
out of date. If you are using MGA8 on anything, it should be upgraded to MGA9 NOW. Two years ago would have been better.
TJ
Hi all...
I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I have to upgrade from win10 to win 11 and my trusted technician said that doing so will overwrite the boot loader but does not know how to reinstall it.
I googled around and the procedure seems a bit above my skill...it mention
of using e.g. my M9 bootable USB to a live version and then at a console
give a series of commands to...I am afraid of finding myself in an unknown territory...given that all my important Datas are in a separate D
partition and not much is stored in Linux I was wondering if it is not
better after all reinstall Mageia9...but even here I have a difficulty...I remember that wwhhen I installed it I had to go shortly into the BIOS and make some selection Legacy or Uefi...if I remember well
Below are details of my system which can be of any use to suggest to what
or which way to go.
On 9/12/25 20:43, santo wrote:
Hi all...
I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I did wonder if the Bit Twister ever posted a solution on the
newsgroup.
Running a search would not hurt
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:58:07 +1100, faeychild wrote:
On 9/12/25 20:43, santo wrote:
Hi all... I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I did wonder if the Bit Twister ever posted a solution on the
newsgroup. Running a search would not hurt
Meanwhile I had to reinstall everything as Win 11 did not have enough
space
... no issue as I backed up all I needed ... Thank you surely
Bitwister would have posted somethin on this issue...:-) Santo
On 9/12/25 20:43, santo wrote:
Hi all...
I have a dual boot with M9 and win10.
I have to upgrade from win10 to win 11 and my trusted technician said that >> doing so will overwrite the boot loader but does not know how to reinstall >> it.
I googled around and the procedure seems a bit above my skill...it mention >> of using e.g. my M9 bootable USB to a live version and then at a console
give a series of commands to...I am afraid of finding myself in an unknown >> territory...given that all my important Datas are in a separate D
partition and not much is stored in Linux I was wondering if it is not
better after all reinstall Mageia9...but even here I have a difficulty...I >> remember that wwhhen I installed it I had to go shortly into the BIOS and
make some selection Legacy or Uefi...if I remember well
Below are details of my system which can be of any use to suggest to what
or which way to go.
You could use an installation usb, or use a live mga9 usb, an choose the "Recover the boot loader" of some such line. As you say, reinstalling is
a pain. All of the programs you installed after the original
installation, and all the changes to the configuration wouldhave to be redone. Not nice. I have had to do that on two different machines (one
being an installation on a new computer, and the other a messed up
attempt to upgrade a MGA8 machine.
I keep finding stuff from the mga8 installation that was not installed
by that mga9 initial installation.
And doing a comparison (rpm -qa --qf ${NAME} fun on the two
instaltions, and comparing them) produced a mess.
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