![]() ![]() When I want to boot Linux with UEFI, I again have to go into BIOS and turn UEFI back on. When I want to boot the disk with Windows and MBR, I have to go back into BIOS and turn off UEFI. You can see the different disk layouts at Three Distro SSD here on this forum. During the install of each Distro, I selected “Something Else” to place the “/” partition and to re-use (except 1st install) /home and swap.Cinnamon has an option on the pull down (or right click) menu to create the USB drives w/o d/l’ing any other software. I used my Mint Cinnamon system to d/l the different ISO’s and to create the USB boot drive.Then I went into BIOS to switch rom to use UEFI instead of Latency.Formatted the SSD to GPT to make sure it was not in MBR format.Here is a solution that worked for me, but might not be what you were looking for. I’m sorry for all this detail, but wanted to give you some background information. ![]() This is compulsory for some systems (eg Windows), while optional for others (eg Linux). In this page it said,-> "Usually, MBR and BIOS (MBR + BIOS), and GPT and UEFI (GPT + UEFI) go hand in hand. ![]() Doing some research I ran across this web page On the Linux disk I have Ubuntu, Zorin, Mint Xfce, and Xubuntu installed. The Linux SSD disk is formatted as GPT and uses UEFI. The window 10 disk is a MBR formatted disk and uses Legacy support. Leaving my answer to help with discussion on MBR, GPT, and UEFI.Please note: My solution was for only one disk connected at a time.One HDD that has Windows 10 on it and one SDD with 4 Linux Distros on it. ![]()
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