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February 9th, 2021 16:00

Aurora R10, Dual Boot, Linux?

Hi, I would like to install linux on one of the drives and was wondering if it's possible to dual boot in R10 ? What's the best way to do it ? Anyone have any experience on that or suggestions what to avoid ? Thanks

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    JOcean

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    Posted February 9th, 2021 18:00

    This YouTube video should help. Follow it and the procedure is quite easy.

    I am not a Dell employee...I am forum volunteer

    Serious work on an E5430 and constantly building and working on an i5-6500 Desktop

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    Posted February 17th, 2021 03:00

    I went crazy and tested many Linux distributions on the R10. Kali, Ubuntu, Mint, FreeBSD, PuppyLinux, etc.

    Initially, I even had trouble running and installing any Linux version inside VirtualBox on this machine.

     

    Installing Ubuntu was initially challenging - got purple and green lines trying to install 20.04.

     

    What I had to do was to change the Secure Boot options in BIOS to Audit Mode instead of Deployment Mode.

    Understand the implications before doing this - you are basically telling the Alienware BIOS that it will report Secure Boot violations, but will not actively prevent them. Unless you are a high-value target, though, I doubt you have much reason to worry.

    After that, I installed Linux on different drives and drive types, and I currently have 12 VM's running inside Windows on Virtual box, and Kali running on a separate drive.

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    rmjohnson144

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    Posted November 27th, 2022 00:00

    Thanks for the tips.  I got things going after changing to Audit mode.

    Is audit mode anything like Legacy BIOS mode?  

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