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So I have a lenovo ideapad 310 and it came with no os so I installed windows 10 on it. After a few months I decided that I wanted to try out kali linux. I installed it in a virtual machine and it was working properly but it was laggy ofcourse. So I decided that I wanted to install kali so that I can dual boot with windows. I burnt it onto a dvd and started the instalation process. I was following this guide on youtube and I did everything the boot partition home partition... And the guy did not install grub loader so nor did I. And easybcd won't let me create a new entry because I have a uefi motherboard or something.
TL;DR I've installed kali linux along side windows 10 and I have an uefi motherboard or whatever it is and easybcd won't let me add a new boot entry. I am on windows 10 linux is installed but I can't boot into it. (I've changed the boot option to Legacy support in bios still the same)

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1 minute ago, JingleMyDingle said:

I actually have one lying around will try it

After you do that unplug the external and reinstall windows so that it takes up the entire internal hard drive. Whenever you want to use kali just plug in the external hdd and select it in the bios

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23 minutes ago, crashahotrod said:

After you do that unplug the external and reinstall windows so that it takes up the entire internal hard drive. Whenever you want to use kali just plug in the external hdd and select it in the bios

Ok, thanks

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When dual booting, make a repair disk for windows (unless you have the original installation disk). Put grub loader on disk (don't put it on one specific partition). Dual boot away. If at any time you want to remove linux and boot into windows like before, just run the repair disk/install disk for windows and do a bootrec.exe /fixmbr and /fixboot. 

 

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2 hours ago, DarkEnergy said:

When dual booting, make a repair disk for windows (unless you have the original installation disk). Put grub loader on disk (don't put it on one specific partition). Dual boot away. If at any time you want to remove linux and boot into windows like before, just run the repair disk/install disk for windows and do a bootrec.exe /fixmbr and /fixboot. 

So on wich disk should I put the grub loader. I have an ssd wich has 2 partitions 1 is for windows and the other one is for files and stuff. I'm gonna install linux on an external hard drive so where do I put the grub loader? Local disk c wich is where windows is located or?

 

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10 hours ago, JingleMyDingle said:

So on wich disk should I put the grub loader. I have an ssd wich has 2 partitions 1 is for windows and the other one is for files and stuff. I'm gonna install linux on an external hard drive so where do I put the grub loader? Local disk c wich is where windows is located or?

 

If you're putting linux on an external drive, I would assume you put grub on the external disk. Then when you start the computer from the external disk, it should load grub. 

 

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