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RendHeaven

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Registered: 2017-01-20

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Triple booting with systemd-boot

Does systemd-boot have the capability to triple boot?

Right now my machine has Windows 10 and Arch Linux installed. I plan to install another linux distro (Kali) by of course creating a new partition. Do I need to do something specifically for systemd-boot to load the third operating system? Sorry I'm kinda confused right now.

P. S. Please let me know if I posted on the wrong section.

jasonwryan

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

How did you set up dual booting? And why would you not think  that was similarly scalable?

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RendHeaven

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

I setup dual booting by simply mounting the Windows EFI partition

Then followed the installation instruction from : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot

tom.ty89

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Registered: 2012-11-15

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

Just do the same thing you did for Arch for Kali: use the ESP for /boot, write an entry conf for it, done.

Do not (re)install any bootloader/boot manager when you install Kali. (Well, not sure about Kali but with some distros' installer this might be impossible...)

RendHeaven

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

Just do the same thing you did for Arch for Kali: use the ESP for /boot, write an entry conf for it, done.

Do not (re)install any bootloader/boot manager when you install Kali. (Well, not sure about Kali but with some distros' installer this might be impossible...)

Do I install Kali first then write a boot entry conf? Sorry I totally forgot how I did the process about a year ago.

tom.ty89

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

Doesn't really matter, if you know how it should written before actually got it installed (i.e. knowing the exact kernel and initramfs image file names, what to use for root=, etc).

Blasphemist

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Registered: 2013-01-17

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Re: Triple booting with systemd-boot

I don't consider Kali to support UEFI installations, and you have UEFI of course. Maybe you can find a way to accomplish it but be warned that it could go horribly wrong. I think you should install it in a virtual machine and see how that goes.

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