Dual boot Windows_10 / Batocera v 5.25

riccardo · 2020-05-16T18:09:24+00:00

Hi everyone, I have a pc with 2 hard disks, on disk 0 I have windows, on disk 1 I would like to put batocera v 5.25. How can I do? Thanks in advance :)

Genetik57

riccardo Hi,

You can follow this:

MurMur

Batocera dos not really need to be installed as such, only grub to be able to access it. I recently installed batocera on a separate harddrive from my main windows one. I also installed linux mint on the same harddrive which added the grub menu and allowed the script from the wiki to be run. The easiest way I think to install batocera and windows side by side would probably be:

Boot from a linux usb stick (mint/ubuntu/any)

Start GParted to access all the harddrives on the computer. Check that both the windows drive and the batocera drive have the same partition table (GPT or msdos). This is really important and will save a lot of potential headache when trying the get it to boot.

Make 2 partitions on the new harddrive, 2-4gb fat32 named BATOCERA and immediately after a ext4 partition named SHARE which takes the rest.

Open a browser and go to https://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/ and download the boot.tar.xz. Extract it to the BATOCERA share and thats it.

I have no experience with grub2win but I would boot back in to windows and run it to see if it finds it. If not, try manually to add the settings the script generated for me: https://forum.batocera.org/d/1392-how-to-dual-boot-batocera-ubuntu/24 The video above showed how to manually edit the grub file in grub2win.

Hope this helps!

jus_drein_jus_daun

Hi MurMur, so just to clarify, did you fully install Mint on the separate drive with the usb stick and then you continued to make partitions from there within Linux Mint? I’m pretty much looking to do the same thing. I have Windows 10 installed on one 1TB ssd and looking to install Batocera on a second 1TB ssd and have the choice to boot either one. I’m a bit of a noob to dual booting so could you please describe how you installed Linux and Batocera together? Also, need more detail on how you boot Batocera after extracting it to the SHARE partition. Any help would be awesome, a lot of the tutorials out there are way too complicated.

riccardo

I found a solution yesterday
I did the installation on external HDD, then I housed HDD inside the computer. I installed the easyBCD program on windows. I created the boot and give it the name BATOCERA. Very easy. Now i have my dual boot!! Small problem, I have to send twice, once in error, the second send starts very well. I believe the problem is on the splasch which is not displayed. For now I’m happy and everything works fine. Thanks for your answers. I hope this will help some other person.

Regards

ssfotos

Hola Riccardo, podes contarme que configuracion usaste para el disco de Batocera? probe con Linux con todas las variantes , y lo logro que arranque, solo queda pantalla en negro

Gracias!
@riccardo

MurMur

So the setup I have is 1 harddrive with Windows 10 and 1 harddrive with Mint and batocera. If you already have Windows installed remember to check if it is GPT or msdos(MBR), otherwise the only way to boot from one to the other is from the bios boot menu. The way to check it is with the GParted tool from a linux USB.

I would start by having both harddrives connected to the computer, boot linux mint from a usb and start GParted. Check the Windows one for the partition table type and make sure the other one has the same. I would next make 1 partition of EXT4 for the Mint installation, make it the size you feel is necessary. Next I would make a 4gb Fat32 partition and label it BATOCERA. Form the size remaining I would make the SHARE partition, EXT4 format.

It is really important that BATOCERA and SHARE are in this order. It does not matter if they are in the beginning or end of the partition table.

Next close GParted and start the installer for the Mint system. Go through the menu and choose advance partition management (or whatever it is called) and put the / system on the first partition you made. It might complain about swap or /boot or something, do what it recommends. Finish the Mint installation, remove the USB and reboot. If all worked well you should have a grub screen and 10secs to choose between Mint and Windows.

Next, boot into Mint and mount the BATOCERA partition you made. If you can’t directly find it in the file manager, type disks in the start menu and start the Disks program. Choose the correct harddrive and partiton and click the “play” button to mount it. Next extract the contents of boot.tar.xz x86_64 into the boot partition. The partition should contain the folders boot, EFI, tools and batocera-boot.conf. Next run the commands from “Configure the grub boot loader” from the wiki. If all goes well you should now have Windows, batocera and Mint in the grub menu. Use the grub customizer to remove extra entries, change the time to choose/remove it and the order the systems are displayed.

I can’t really remember which order I did this but this is how I would do it now, should I have to do it again.

Links:
boot.tar.xz
https://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/

wiki
https://wiki.batocera.org/dual_boot_ubuntu_batocera.linux?s[]=dual&s[]=boot

grub customizer
https://vitux.com/how-to-install-grub-customizer-on-ubuntu/