Calamares installer good for dual boot with Windows 7

danielson

Yesterday i decided to give the new Calamares installer a go on Manjaro XFCE 2015-09-27 to see if dual booting was possible on Windows 7 without having GRUB write to MBR but rather to / and it worked!

Had only created a / and /swap (no extended partitions).
Here are my observations:
-Startup was slow even after second reboot.
-Still have a no go issue with printing from usb connected HP LaserJet 1018.

karasu

We discussed this a long time ago. From the Arch wiki:

Warning: GRUB strongly discourages installation to a partition boot sector or a partitionless disk as GRUB Legacy or Syslinux does. This setup is prone to breakage, especially during updates, and is not supported by the Arch developers

Neither by Antergos ones.

Cheers!

danielson

Oh oh!

Then someone should post a link to that reference text on PadreGoose’ Youtube tutorial.