Working through for English. Got as far as Recognising Windows XP Partitions so far. simonnzg 11:03, 7 March 2012 (UTC) Now got as far as Partitioning examples simonnzg 22:49, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Chopped out a lot of information about BIOS access methods as much of it was out of date and could be found elsewhere. I've put in a simplified list of commands, included a suggestion for a Google search that may help, plus a link to a randomly-chosen page of BIOS access key sequences to give the user an idea of what is available. simonnzg 23:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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Dual boot, while commonly used in the past decade regardless how many operating systems are installed on a PC containing both Linux and Windows, is technically incorrect for every system that includes more than two installed operating systems. To put an even finer point on it, IBM created the term "dual boot" back around 1987, the same time it created the term "multi boot", when it introduced the IBM Boot Manager. Dual boot was the term applied to a single boot partition, usually C:, with exactly two installed operating systems, DOS, and OS/2, sharing that one partition. Multi boot was distinguished by its application to more than one operating system installed, each to a separate partition. Multi boot is always a technically correct term when more than one operating system is installed on one PC with each OS hosted by a separate unshared system partition.
Dual boot was IBM's easy solution for those needing DOS and OS/2 on the same system, as it did not require the presence of more than one partition in the system. Multi boot via Boot Manager was the more powerful alternative, but it required a partitioning step that would require reinstalling DOS after splitting the disk into multiple partitions if DOS was already installed and remained needed.
Grub is currently the preferred boot loader in most modern Linux installations, though it has been losing prominence since the introduction of EFI and GPT. Grub, and its alternatives, are also boot managers. Their menus rarely contain less than two stanzas even on PCs that have only Linux installed. Thus, with only one Linux and one Windows installation, the boot menu has at least three stanzas, often more because Memtest is also installed. Calling such a menu a dual boot menu or a boot menu for a "dual boot" system doesn't make sense. It makes even less sense after another Linux release is added to the system.
Because of the apparent visual and logical paradox and possible confusion both from the bootloader menu's more than two entries and in docs, I suggest not to write the term dual boot at all, except maybe in a note explaining its common usage and the distinction between it and multi boot.
Please not here, this page is really only about dual-boot of 1 Mageia with 1 Windows instance. It would be good to have a page about multi-boot (I don't think we have one, should be checked), but using the term here, in this page for beginners, will confuse. --marja 08:42, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
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Notes of Dutch translator Marchugo:
1) This document feels very old (it dates back from 2013). Although it may be useful for Mageia users that like to dual-boot with Winows, it's not very helpfull that the text is only referring to very old Windows versions like XP, Vista and 7.
Maybe someone with good knowledge of the actual state of dual booting could refrase and modernize parts of the text?
Marchugo
2) In this document Installation of Mageia in dual boot with Windows simonnzg writes in the section Naming partitions:
[I'll put some updated screenshots in here soon, simonnzg 23:30, 9 March 2012 (UTC).] Italic text
It's now 05 March 2024, and I can't see the updated screenshots?
Marchugo.
3)
Link not found in this document: https://cpucare.net/Hardware/BIOS/Access_BIOS.htm
https://cpucare.net/Hardware/BIOS/Access_BIOS.htm
4) In the section GRUB a screenshot is missing:
Lebarhon : A screenshot about the boot loader is lacking. Seems it doesn't exist any more
Marchugo.
5) Is this reference to Intel Rapid Storage Technologye (RST) in the introduction still valid, actual or necessary?
If your device is using RST (Intel Rapid Storage Technology) (default for many new devices), you must read Install on device using RST.
Marchugo
