I'm finally taking the plunge and getting my feet wet with Linux, and have been fumbling around this weekend trying to Dual-boot Solus Plasma with Windows. I'm stuck with the finish line in sight. It appears installed, but I can't get it to boot up, or get the boot option to appear at start up.

I've successfully created the ISO USB using rufus DD formatting, created a 100gb partition on my SSD from the windows side before hand to install Solus onto. Secure boot is disabled. And It appeared to work & told me to re-start my computer. I did, but it just re-booted into windows, with no Solus at start up

I went to try & re-install it thinking it must not have worked, but it showed a new option of "Replace existing 4.2 fortitude" so it seems to have installed properly. Next I found a potential solution using the EasyUEFI tool. Going through those steps I found the solus boot file installed on my computer & added it using boot list EasyUEFI platform. It seemed correct, but when I powered back up, Windows boot loader was my only option. The other option available was boot through EFI file, but i gotta be honest im afraid to click things I have no idea about. Sometime i feel like this is defusing an explosive lol.

Any help would be very appreciated, I've been searching for hours but cant quite get it.

I feel SO close, it might just drive me insane, but I'm optimistic it will be worth the venture. I

My computer specs:
HP Spectre x360
Intel i7 - 8550U
Ram: 16 GB
GPU: Intel UHD 620
SSD: Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB

Cheers.

    CannonballSoup
    You should try "something else" instead of "install alongside ..." and select the EFI partition to install the Solus bootloader. Of course you need to start Gparted first and prepare the partitions! If the Windows EFI partition is small (99MB) you need to create a new, (second) EFI partition, (300MB) and install Solus Bootloader there. The Windows system remains intact, but the selection - Windows BOOT or Solus BOOT can be changed in the BIOS or during startup with one of the F keys, (BOOT options!). If Solus works properly, you can later fix "Dual BOOT" with the menu.

        100jan Thanks a lot for your help, I didn't go about it quite exactly as how you suggested. But your suggestion to use Gparted made me realize i should just start over and to the partitioning via Solus Parition managment as you suggested. I watched a quick tutorial on youtube to make sure i did the partitioning properly, restarted and everything has been smooth sailing! Loving this OS so far.

        The tutorial i followed for anyone who might stumble onto this in the future.