Installer does not allow for dual boot with Windows

[brs17]

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NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="17.10 (Artful Aardvark)" BUILD = 35 (noNVIDIA)

Issue/Bug Description On Oryxp3, Ubiquity installer recognizes "Windows Boot Manager" but only recommends erasing the disk to install Pop!_OS by itself.

Steps to reproduce (if you know) Attempt to install Pop!_OS with Windows 10 already installed.

Expected behaviour The Ubiquity installer should provide an option to dual boot the two machines.

Other Notes Screenshot:

Gparted can see and resize the windows partition and fast boot has been disabled.

[isantop]

This issue was moved to pop-os/pop#14

[forrestblade]

The only real solution to this right now is to shrink the Windows 10 partition prior to attempting to a dual boot install.

[brs17]

@forrestblade thanks for the suggestion. We are actually in the works to release a new installer with Pop!_OS 18.04. We will be releasing a test iso in the coming days. In the meantime feel free to take a peak at the repositories for this new project: front-end: https://github.com/pop-os/installer back-end: https://github.com/pop-os/distinst

[winuxue]

Any update about this?

[WatchMkr]

Yes, the new installer in Pop!_OS supports dual boot. Instructions are here:

https://support.system76.com/articles/dual-booting/

One caveat, for Windows we've found that you need a separate 512 MB /boot/efi partition because Windows creates one with only enough space for their bootloader.

[jeremiascb]

Sabe me dizer como resolvo esse problema? Se eu criar essa partição de 512 MB, como fica o boot?

[GottfriedCP]

Is it okay to have two ESPs on one hard drive?