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Also, some boot loaders, such as the GRUB 2 boot loader that's popular with Linux distributions, function as boot managers as well as being boot loaders. If you're dual-booting Ubuntu and OS X (or macOS, as it's been recently re-named) on a Mac, it's a practical necessity to add something to the boot process. Boot Manager Once the virtual machine powered off, simply open the Edit virtual machine settings. Edit Virtual Machine Settings At this point, from the virtual machine settings, navigate to the Options tab and click the Options tab then change the Guest operating system to Apple macOS X and select the version macOS 10.14 or above. When your Mac powers up, it normally uses the system on its internal hard drive unless you change this behavior by choosing System Preferences@@→Startup Disk. You can also change what your Mac does by holding down the following keys or key combinations during startup. Print these boot option keys, because they’re particularly helpful to have.
How to dual-boot Linux and Windows on the same hard disk? Typically a computer will have a single operating system installed on them, for those that wants to dual-boot multiple OS such as a combination of Windows and Linux, you will need to make some changes and enable the option to choose which OS to boot from during startup.
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You can install 2 operating system provided that you partition your SSD or Hard Disk into 2 drives. When you install a Linux distribution, it typically installs the Grub boot loader. Grub loads instead of the Windows boot loader at boot time if Windows was already installed, allowing you to choose the operating system you want to boot by modifying the Boot Configuration Data.
↓ 01 – Grub2Win | Free
Grub2Win supports 64 and 32 bit EFI and BIOS on Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP. Safely dual boot Windows and Linux from GPT or MBR disks. Grub2Win boots native GNU Grub version 2 code. Everything is contained in a single 20 MB directory on your Windows C: drive. On EFI systems a few small modules are installed to your EFI partition.
Using the simple Windows GUI and instructions you can install Grub2Win quickly and safely. Select from many OS choices. Supports Antergos, Android, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mint, Clover and Windows. Also boots ISO files. You can enter your own custom commands for each menu entry.
- Supports 64 and 32 bit EFI as well as BIOS firmware.
- Installs to Windows 10, 8, 7 and XP.
- Requires just one directory on the Windows C: drive, about 20 MB disk space.
- Simple Windows GUI easily sets up Grub2Win in seconds.
- Lets you set your EFI firmware boot order from within Windows.
- Preview and customize the 9 included graphic background themes.
- Works with all filesystems including Mac hfs and Btrfs.
- Can search for and boot a partition by it’s label. Supports advanced scripting.
- Works with both GPT and MBR disks – up to 128 primary partitions per drive.
- Supports extremely large (over 40 TB) disks and partitions.
- Safely multiboot Windows, Antergos, Android, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, Fedora, Mint, Clover and more.
- Grub customization is done from Windows – Configuration in Linux is not required.
↓ 02 – EasyBCD | Free Personal
Take control of your boot loader, EasyBCD supercharges your Windows PC, allowing you to dual-boot to your heart’s content. Also boot into legacy systems Microsoft doesn’t support: MS-DOS, Windows 9x, Windows ME, and Windows 2000!
EasyBCD is geared for users of all kinds. Whether you just want to add an entry to your old XP partition or want to create a duplicate for testing purposes; if youre interested in debugging the Windows Kernel or septuple-booting your seven test operating systems, EasyBCD is the key.
- Boot anything – Windows, Linux, macOS, & BSD! Boot both from and into USB drives, ISO images, virtual disks, and more.
- Boot anywhere – Create bootable USB sticks with repair utilities that you can take with you anywhere.
- Protect against disaster – Create entries to boot into recovery utilities or safe mode to prepare for a rainy day.
- Painless editing – Add, rename, remove, configure, and reorder entries at whim.
- Solve difficult problems – Use EasyBCD to troubleshoot Windows, back up and repair the bootloader, and more.
- Powerful scripting with NeoGrub – You’ll have the power to hide partitions, change active flags, and create complex boot scenarios.
↓ 03 – rEFInd Boot Manager | Free
rEFInd is a fork of the Small rEFIt boot manager for computers based on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) and Unified EFI (UEFI). Like rEFIt, rEFInd is a boot manager, meaning that it presents a menu of options to the user when the computer first starts up, as shown below. rEFInd is not a boot loader, which is a program that loads an OS kernel and hands off control to it.
↓ 04 – Clover EFI bootloader | Free
This is EFI-based bootloader for BIOS-based computers created as a replacement to EDK2/Duet bootloader. Clover is an operating system boot loader for computers already equipped with an UEFI firmware and for those equipped with legacy BIOS firmware. An operating system (OS) may support (U)EFI (macOS, Windows 7, 8, or 10, Linux) or not (Windows XP). Legacy boot is used for the last one, that is, the old BIOS system is used to handle boot sectors.
- Boot macOS, Windows, and Linux in UEFI or legacy mode on Mac or PC with UEFI or BIOS firmware
- Boot using UEFI firmware directly or CloverEFI UEFI firmware emulation
- Customizable GUI including themes, icons, fonts, background images, animations, and mouse pointers.
- Ability to boot previously selected boot entry after default timeout
- Boot entries menu scrolls if screen resolution is too low for menu
- Create custom boot entries for personalizing boot entries and add support for other operating systems
- Create Clover boot entry in NVRAM with tool from GUI
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Apple’s new operating system is eventually “macOS Catalina” which is shipping this fall. The early preview is rolling out in order that is particularly more for developers. The public preview is out now which opens the way to try all the interesting features out before fall. This lets you test out every cool feature you’d like and if there’s an issue you could send a report to address the issue to Apple. The process is simple to try, with Apple’s beta program, you could download and try macOS Catalina directly on your Mac. Here is How to Fix “EFI VMware Virtual SATA….” When Installing macOS Catalina.
But for Windows users, it’s pretty different, both the download and installation process. While the App Store and Apple’s beta program is on Mac and is for Mac users only, and they could download Catalina within a few clicks. You might also have access to a Mac at least for a short time that maybe of your friends Mac. So you could entirely download the Catalina image but if you’d try installing it on a virtual machine on Windows, you will end up without installing. That’s why we’ve cleared the way for you and made the image ready for you, you could simply download macOS Catalina VMware & VirtualBox image.
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With that done, you’re good to use the image to install macOS Catalina on VMware. But when you attempt to install, you might encounter a black screen with VMware logo ” Attempting to start up from: – > EFI VMware Virtual SATA Hard Drive (0.0) . . . unsuccessful – > EFI Network . . . ” . While this error has been appearing from past, but this time, it’s different and the solution is different too, here’s how to fix EFI VMware Virtual SATA….
Insert Config Key on VMX File
One of the reasons that would appear this error is the config key not inserted. If you’ve created the macOS Catalina virtual machine, and configured, you need to insert the config key.
From the virtual machine files, navigate to the Catalina.vmx file and right click on the file then select Notepad.
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Open Catalina with Notepad
Next, scroll down to the end and insert the following key at the end.
When you’re done, click Save.
Save file
If you’ve already inserted the key, then there’s another problem, check the next solution.
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Set up Guest Operating System Correctly
Similar to the boot loop problem when installing macOS Catalina we fixed, this problem is a little different from that. When you create macOS Catalina virtual machine, you select macOS X for the guest OS but later on, when you configure the virtual machine, the guest OS will change to Microsoft Windows x64-bit. But if you forget to, you’d end up likely this problem. That’s a simple fix.
At first, close the virtual machine by right-clicking on the virtual machine’s name and select Power then click Shut Down Guest.
On the virtual machine settings window, click on the Options tab and click select Microsoft Windows from the Guest Operating system and choose Windows 10 x64 for the version.
Set Up Virtual Machine Settings
Now power on the virtual machine.
Power on this virtual machine
The virtual machine will straightly boot to the installation.
Okay now that you’ve accomplished the installation, you’ll now need to change the guest OS to macOS X. For those who are stuck after the installation, here’s what you need to do. This one is for you.
After you’re done with the installation, you’ll boot into the boot manager. From there, select Shut down the system.
Boot Manager
Once the virtual machine powered off, simply open the Edit virtual machine settings.
At this point, from the virtual machine settings, navigate to the Options tab and click the Options tab then change the Guest operating system to Apple macOS X and select the version macOS 10.14 or above. Once you’re done, click OK.
Virtual Machine Settings
All that’s left to do now is select start the macOS Catalina, and you’re good to go! This time you’ll enter into the final installation part where you’ll personalize and create your account and start surfing it.
All done! When you’ve finished all the things, you’ll have the newest version of macOS right into your Windows PC.
macOS Catalina on VMware
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Fine, that’s the end to it. If there’s something you’d like to tell us, we’re happy to hear from you.