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globetrotterdk

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Registered: 2020-12-23

Posts: 67

Windows installer Q4OS instance with a couple of niggling issues.

Congratulations on the Windows installer for Q4OS. This is the first time that I have tried it. and it works like a charm.There are however, a couple of niggling issues. The first is the slooowness of the installer. 500 GB install felt like forever. Second, a basic desktop install (not expert) gives a desktop without an obvious way to get audio devices detected and working. Installing the pipewire-audio package did the trick, but not very obvious for those users coming from Windows...

Interestingly, my biggest problem (in the scheme of things, not big at all) is that the installer sets Windows as the default boot entry for grub. I have tried both:

$ sudo nano /etc/default/grub

and changed

GRUB_DEFAULT=4

to

GRUB_DEFAULT=0

and have tried running both

$ sudo update-grub2

and

$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Unfortunately neither change anything...

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q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,804

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Re: Windows installer Q4OS instance with a couple of niggling issues.

... my biggest problem (in the scheme of things, not big at all) is that the installer sets Windows as the default boot entry for grub.

Try:
- edit /etc/default/grub to suite your needs
$ sudo update-efigrub
In case that above doesn't work run:
$ sudo update-sbgrub

... slooowness of the installer. 500 GB install felt like forever.

Yes, expanding of large virtual disks takes a time. It's an issue to solve.

globetrotterdk

Member

Registered: 2020-12-23

Posts: 67

Re: Windows installer Q4OS instance with a couple of niggling issues.

Thanks.

$ sudo update-efigrub

solved the issue.

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I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. - Groucho Marx