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raydav

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Registered: 2025-12-13

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No GRUB???

First a little background.  I got my first AT clone running DOS 3.3.  I got Norton Commander the next day.  Since the first version of DOS that shipped with a boot manager I have not had fewer than two OSs on any machine, for decades desktops typically had five, and a couple still do.  Recent laptops have had just two Win partitions.

I am currently working a laptop, shipped with Win11, with many dates of 01/Apr/2024.  I shrunk the W11 partition and created three partitions and installed another W11 on the next volume after the original W11.  Win created a boot manager that has both Wii partitions.  On the next volume I installed Q4OS.

Q4OS installation seemed to proceed normally.  The final reboot returned to the Win boot manager, which still had only the two Win partitions.

A search of the Q4OS partition found two GRUB sub-directories.  As best I can determine, they are both empty.  I am not aware of any way to boot Q4OS.

What am I missing?

TY
Ray

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: No GRUB???

Welcome to the forum

... I installed Q4OS.

What install media did you use ? How exactly did you install Q4OS ?

raydav

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Registered: 2025-12-13

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Re: No GRUB???

q4os-winsetup-5.8-r1.zip

raydav

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Registered: 2025-12-13

Posts: 3

Re: No GRUB???

Welcome to the forum

... I installed Q4OS.

What install media did you use ? How exactly did you install Q4OS ?

"The easiest way to put Q4OS alongside Windows. Just run the setup wizard from within Windows and install Q4OS as easily as an application. Windows 11/10/8/7 compatible.

Q4OS Aquarius, WinSetup.exe - 64bit / x64 ... 25 MBytes ... setup guide"

That yields "q4os-winsetup-5.8-r1.zip"

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: No GRUB???

On some computers, firmware forces the Windows bootloader to be the only in the boot list, which means by default, you won't see Q4OS entry when you boot your computer. Your computer will instead continue to boot into Windows and it will appear, that nothing has in fact happened. To boot into Q4OS, restart computer and press the function key to pull up the boot menu, see https://www.q4os.org/dqa014.html#boome