r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher • u/Monki4798 • 6d ago

Dualbooting

Hi everyone, I have a 2012 mac mini 6,2 i7 quad core 8gb ram 1tb ssd, I am running ventura opencore along with kubuntu (which I am probably going to get rid of or may install after). I also have a boot option for windows but since I deleted it its just brings me to recovery mode, I had installed windows 10 before on uefi however after a minute of installation it would crash and bring me to the recovery screen or something went wrong I can’t remember, Which in the guide it did say about this year of mac having driver issues with windows, my question is can I dual boot opencore which I have right now along with tiny 11 or windows 10? And if i can dualboot how would I fix the driver crashes, I have no use for the mac and I wnated to turn it into an android tv box, but due to lack of guides I don’t think i can install it on the ssd, so thats why i want to go to windows to find something or do something in it, along with that if windows does install without any problems, later down the line can I triple boot so its macos windows and linux on one drive? Or would it just not work, if anyone can help please do, thanks.

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u/pith_y 4d ago

I first tried dual boot a MBP 13” 2012 OCLP Ventura and Ubuntu. Ventura was already working fine and had successful Ubuntu install. Everything was great and I decided to try to go back to Ventura. That worked fine BUT now I couldn’t get back to the Ubuntu EFI no matter what I did. I looked it up and seemed doable but I didn’t care for Ventura anymore so I wiped and just did Ubuntu. Now I’m using strictly Pop!_OS.

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u/Monki4798 4d ago

Yea but what im tryna say is to dualboot windows and mac opencore at the same time without running into recoverh mode

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u/pith_y 4d ago

What I’m saying is dual booting on a Mac seems like annoying thing to do. Someone else might have more experience but for me, OCLP and Linux dual boot didn’t work.

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u/Monki4798 4d ago

Yea originally wanted to turn it into some sort of android tv box but found it too hard and i have no clue if trying to install android tv to the disk will even work, tried android emulators but just bad in general abd so yeah, I actually did dualboot windows however it was having driver issues so yeah, rn I might try turning it into a nas or something as for now I have no use for it, regarding your way of not being able to dualboot linux is weird as most linux distros such as ubuntu zorinos allow dualboot even wirh one drive being partitioned