multi-booting
Sign in to saveAlso known as dual-booting, multi-boot, multi boot
thumb|300px|rEFInd Boot Manager, with entries for [[openSUSE Tumbleweed (one is GRUB and another is kernel EFI stub) and Windows 11, an example of dual booting]] thumb|300px|GNU GRUB|GRUB, with entries for [[Ubuntu and Windows Vista, another example of dual booting]] Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of specifically two operating systems. Multi-booting may require a custom boot loader.
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Usage
- Technical issues
- Number of operating systems per volume (logical drive)
- Number of operating systems per storage device
- Partitioning
- MBR loader
- Linux boot loaders
- OS/2 Boot Manager
- UEFI loading
- Microsoft Windows and Linux
- Neutral MBR
- Apple's Boot Camp
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|300px|rEFInd Boot Manager, with entries for [[openSUSE Tumbleweed (one is GRUB and another is kernel EFI stub) and Windows 11, an example of dual booting]] thumb|300px|GNU GRUB|GRUB, with entries for [[Ubuntu and Windows Vista, another example of dual booting]] Multi-booting is the act of installing multiple operating systems on a single computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. The term dual-booting refers to the common configuration of specifically two operating systems. Multi-booting may require a custom boot loader.
==Usage== Multi-booting allows more than one operating system to reside on one computer; for example, if a user has a primary operating system that they use most frequently and an alternate operating system that they use less frequently. Multi-booting allows a new operating system to configure all applications needed and migrate data before removing the old operating system, if desired. Another reason for multi-booting can be to investigate or test a new operating system without switching completely.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “multi-booting” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.