What will happen if I install Fedora in dual boot on another disk ?
Hello,
I have a SSD with Windows 10 on it which take all the space on it. I want to know what will happen if I install Fedora on a second HDD or SSD. How my computer will handle it ?
Will it load the grub automatically ? If not will I have to change the boot order in the BIOS each time I want to load an other OS ? If I boot on the Fedora disk it will start grub, will it detect Windows on the other disk ? Will the Windows boot loader (MBR) will be impacted ? For example if I want to remove Fedora, will I have to reinstall the MBR as on a normal dual boot system on the same computer ?
Thank you.
it might not see the Windows from the get go, however to add Windows SSD to the grub menu is a trivial task. Just mount the disk and run os-prober.
You will have to set second disk as a first boot option in the BIOS, and no, it will not impact Windows boot loader on the first disk, even if you uninstall/remove the disk with Fedora. You just boot the disk with Windows, and that's it - it will boot Windows.
legacy or (U)EFI boot here?
UEFI boot.
Secure Boot?