Quad boot Windows 10, opensuse, ubuntu and openindiana on Dell XPS 17 2x 500gb HDD

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Hi,

If I can have a detailed as possible procedure on how to partition and install to make this happen?

Thanks alot:-)

BR

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Hi and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:
Have no idea about the Ub* and openindiana hopefully os-prober supports… I have the following quad-boot setup;


lsblk

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 111.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   260M  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0    40G  0 part 
├─sda3   8:3    0    40G  0 part 
└─sda4   8:4    0  31.5G  0 part /data
sdb      8:16   0 111.8G  0 disk 
├─sdb1   8:17   0   300M  0 part 
├─sdb2   8:18   0   100M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sdb3   8:19   0   128M  0 part 
├─sdb4   8:20   0  62.9G  0 part 
├─sdb5   8:21   0   450M  0 part 
├─sdb6   8:22   0     8G  0 part [SWAP]
└─sdb7   8:23   0    40G  0 part /

os-prober

/dev/sda2:openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):openSUSE:linux:btrfs:UUID=9e689967-6db2-4199-9ee9-d20c7c3584c0:subvol=@/.snapshots/1/snapshot
/dev/sda3:SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2:SLED:linux:btrfs:UUID=3f063f63-0d65-4b02-a949-2eae883e80c2:subvol=@/.snapshots/96/snapshot
/dev/sdb2@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi

Tumbleweed and Windows 10 on sdb with an efi partition and openSUSE Leap 42.2 and SLED 12 SP2 on sda with it’s own efi partition.

I pre-partitoned the disks (gpt) to my requirements, installed winX first and updated the build (it creates its extra partitions), then installed SLED and openSUSE Leap, then finally Tumbleweed as I wanted this to be the default grub and disabled the os-prober option in YaST bootloader for SLED and Leap.