Can't create more than 4 primary partitions.

Emperor

@[deleted] @algent Hey guys: we've made it!
The longest installation of Solus in history xD I'm a little sad this happened on the 71th post and not on 69th, but whatever.
There were 2 big problems, which I learned how to deal with: the first is that you have to prepare everything with GParted and then try to mount, not via Gparted, but via the installer.
The secound big problem was that I followed the instructions on the Solus website, which said that I have to create MBR scheme for BIOS or UEFI...when I re-burned the USB with GPT scheme, everything, just worked 🙂 I must admit that I confused the BIOS interface with UEFI when booting Solus.
So here we have it-from my testing I don't like the file system so much, but I will get used to it. Solus is very very fast 🙂 It's booting is like 3 times faster than W10! It's also very lightweight-I can all the needed programs and some games in less than 10GB!
Unfortunately Waterfox and Joplin aren't available in the software center, but I will learn how to install from other things like snap.
All in all everything is fine, exept now I am only booting into Solus xD
How can I make the bootloader check that there is a Windows and give me choice to boot it?
Also when I turn it off and then on my swap partition and many others get unmounted?! Only the home(which is part of root) is mounted automatically...how can I deal with that?
Which is THE virtual machine for Solus(for W10 I consider it to be Oracle VM)
And most importantly I wanna thank you for the help 🙂
Still can't belive you wasted 2 days trying to help me :0 :

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Emperor Congrats! It for sure has been a ride.

Waterfox is available from their official site as an archive you can just extract and run. Joplin isn't included apparently due to not having any increased value over boostnote.

For partitions to mount automatically you need to edit /etc/fstab, or adjust the settings via GNOME Disks.

algent

Congrats. With all these steps you have done, take some notes and save them because you will forget soon.

Emperor How can I make the bootloader check that there is a Windows and give me choice to boot it?

Try to update grup: $ sudo update-grub

If it fails, try to mount the Windows partition where the system is installed just by opening it with File Manager and then do again
$ sudo update-grub

algent

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Playing with fstab is dangerous because the system may go to emergency mode, not sure what happens with the data.
Of course you can remove what you did add to fstad with $ sudo nano /etc/fstab and then reboot.

Emperor

[deleted] Wow...why it just doesn't save this setting automatically?
Never heard of boostnote-I will definitely check it out 🙂

Emperor

[deleted] Gnome disks is where I found that I can mount them-so even from there it didn't save the changes.

Emperor

algent So I have to type the $ before the command? I found that command and tried to use it but it wanted me some sudo password...which to begin with is hard to write and it's not my password.

algent

Emperor $ is the terminal symbol. You don't have to type it. Just sudo update-grub

Emperor

algent It doesn't work.

Emperor

boostnote is more complex and seems like it's geared towards developers and code-writers.
Joplin is more private, local, and FOSS alternative to Evernote-it's simple to use and it has web-clipper-it can handle large ammount of bulky notes and organize them.
So my best bet is to search for snap...

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Emperor The command you're looking for is sudo clr-boot-manager update

EFI systems don't have GRUB.

Try this for the mount settings https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-edit-linux-drive-mount-point-options-using-a-gui/

Emperor

[deleted] I figured that there must be additional settings and managed to do that 🙂
But this terminal commands always require some password and I just can't type-I begin to write it and I can't-the only thing I can do is press enter and abort the command-I experienced such problems in various Linux distros on VMs...so this is from the stupid linux-y things...
I remember I could do something about it, but what is it?
Update: If it is truly that it's for security reasons and you have to just type the password then the command is not working-I write the command...then write the password and enter-there was no text informing what happened or whatever-I am just on new line to type other commands.

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dbarron The case is Emperor has W10 installed in MBR. Solus is installed in EFI.

Emperor It's normal that it doesn't display the password (not even asterisks) for security reasons. No output means usually that the command is successful.

Emperor Solus uses GRUB only in MBR mode. So either you have to boot into Windows via your motherboard's boot menu (which works as intended) or reformat your Solus HDD and reinstall in MBR mode.

In my honest opinion the best option would be to reinstall W10 in EFI, and select the OS via motherboard's boot menu, as that's the intended way.

dbarron

It looked successful to me (no error).

Emperor

dbarron Well it is absolutely possible, but I am still booting automatically in Solus, instead of W10. I have no options to choose from when booting. What should I do next?

dbarron

sudo clr-boot-manager set-timeout 5

See if that helps you (reboot after successful) and watch closely (5 seconds isn't long) 🙂

Emperor

Well it still doen't work here is a video of the process:
https://youtu.be/MCuME5H96RA
And here a picture when I click F12 when booting(if that matters somehow)

algent

Emperor Whap happens when you chose option 2 or P0 and option 3 P1?

dbarron

That's odd. You should have got a 5 second window to choose which bootloader (text screen).

Emperor

dbarron So there is something wrong either with the command or again with fucking HDDs, formats and so on.
Let me give you a bunch of information-maybe some of it will be valuable:
I was with W7 and used the free update to W10-as we've seen W10 is on MBR HDD.
Later I added the second HDD-2TB...after long issues it's now where the bootloader of Solus is and it's GPT HDD.
So is there a problem, because;
1) The 2 bootloders are on different HDDs.
2) The different HDDs are differently formated-one is GPT and the other MBR.
3) Even the format of bootloaders are different-Solus is on FAT32, while W10 on NTFS.

Justin

dbarron Need to sudo clr-boot-manager update iirc after that to get it to set.

dbarron

Yeah, I think you're only suppossed to have one bootloader. Just multiple entries in the EFI.

Emperor

dbarron So the question remains-what do I do xD
Simply deleting W10 bootloader will result in unabillity of booting in in my opinion. Because I can't display both OS with 2 bootloaders, I probably would't with just one 🙂
Or I should delete it and then run the sudo commands, but what if it fails?!

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