My system multiboots TW and Windows 10. Is it possible to do an in-place upgrade to Windows 11. This pc fails the compatibility checks but there are dozens of posts online showing how to bypass this. My concern is to bypass the checks but not disturb my multiboot system setup. I don’t want to lose my TW setup for the sake of Windows.
@Prexy why not run a virtual machine instead?
Personally, I don’t think there’s any added value upping to Win11, until they stop security updates on 10.
We don’t duel-boot … we have a laptop that only has Win10 on it. We’ve yet to consider upping it to Win11, even though the “Win upgrade analyzer” keeps asking if we want to upgrade (laptop meets required specs).
That sounds scary hard. I keep thinking I should try a VM just to know what it is all about, but I haven’t done it yet.
Since I gotten less and less dependent on Windows stuff, I also wonder if it’s worth the effort or risk. At one time, I kept Windows in case I couldn’t do something in TW but that hasn’t happened in a long time.
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The easiest way I found was to use another separate disk (SSD in my case) which I installed TW to. Then change the boot order in the BIOS to boot from new SSD drive which has GRUB and identifies the Windows drive so I can boot into that if I want to, which I rarely do these days thanks to the wonderful efforts of the Opensuse team.
This enabled me to upgrade from W10 to 11 along the way without any impact on the TW installation. So if you have space in your system & wanted to get some extra storage for your TW & don’t mind migrating it / reinstalling it, then that could be something you could try too perhaps.
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I’m having video problems right now. Once I get that sorted out, I may tackle adding a separate drive for Windows. I have some drives laying around. On a separate note, I don’t know how to edit the boot menu. I would sure like to move TW to the top!
What boot menu do you mean?
I’m running a Lenovo pc. Early in the boot sequence, I hit f12. This interrupts the booting and brings up a dialogue box with options to boot Windows, opensuse and opensuse secure boot. The other option is to boot from cd or usb.
Oh, there is also an option to enter Setup. But, none of the options there offer to change boot order. If I do not press f12, the booting defaults to Windows.
On Lenovo UEFI systems, entering setup will get you to a menu that allows you to change the default boot order.
The setup is where you would be able to change the boot order once you have installed another SSD or HDD & make that the default. If you install TW on that with its own GRUB and tell your system to boot from that first, then your system should boot into a GRUB screen from where you can then pick TW or Windows or any other OS’s you might have.