Help me understand boot process with BootitBM/dual boot
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:21 am
Hoping this forum has gotten more support than last time I was here quite a while back. Let's see if the time I spent finding it and registering was worth it?
Had to abandon Bootitbm for most of my backups due to inability to get answers here b4. But now I'm back as I want to use it again to install another OS.
Dualboot win 8.1/7. Older version of bootitbm (came with the lappie).
Bootit boot menu appears. You have to boot win7 to get to win8.1. Clicking on win7 in the bootitbm menu takes me to WINDOWS dual boot options page, select either win7 or win8.1
This changed from the earlier bootitbm menu but I still have to select win7 in order to boot win8.1. If I click directly on 8.1 I get an error message something like no OS installed.
Upshot is I want to add win10 to another partition. No unlimited partitions, just the usual 4 I think it is. One is the kind that allows multiple virtual partitions.
I want to install w10 on one of the virtual (extended?) partitions and have the choice of THREE OS's to boot from?
Is that possible? Can anyone here who actually knows how to do this, please give me a step by step procedure to accomplish this?
Thanks for any constructive replies.
Had to abandon Bootitbm for most of my backups due to inability to get answers here b4. But now I'm back as I want to use it again to install another OS.
Dualboot win 8.1/7. Older version of bootitbm (came with the lappie).
Bootit boot menu appears. You have to boot win7 to get to win8.1. Clicking on win7 in the bootitbm menu takes me to WINDOWS dual boot options page, select either win7 or win8.1
This changed from the earlier bootitbm menu but I still have to select win7 in order to boot win8.1. If I click directly on 8.1 I get an error message something like no OS installed.
Upshot is I want to add win10 to another partition. No unlimited partitions, just the usual 4 I think it is. One is the kind that allows multiple virtual partitions.
I want to install w10 on one of the virtual (extended?) partitions and have the choice of THREE OS's to boot from?
Is that possible? Can anyone here who actually knows how to do this, please give me a step by step procedure to accomplish this?
Thanks for any constructive replies.