I’m planning to install Endeavour OS on my external SSD, but I’m unsure about whether I should install a bootloader on it. Currently, I have Windows as my main operating system, and I want to avoid any potential complications or issues that may arise.
Another consideration is that I won’t always have the external SSD connected, so it’s important for me to have the option to boot into Windows even when the drive is not plugged in.
I would greatly appreciate any guidance or recommendations on how to proceed with this installation. Thank you in advance!
Are you using bios boot option like F8, F12, Esc or Alt to boot from different harddrives? If so then you can safely install bootloader on an external drive. It will not intefere with the internal efi boot drive(windows) but it may have a windows boot option when you boot from the external drive depending on your setup. It can be removed later on. This will not show when you unplug the external drive and your computer will boot from the internal drive as normal.
I have 3 EFI systems on this computer ( Imac) , EOS, Kali and Archcraft. Kali is on an external ssd drive wich I plug in everytime i want to use it. EOS on internal M.2 nvme and Archcraft on internal ssd. I just use Alt to choose from where I want to boot. But I also have EOS as default boot drive if I dont want to choose drives to boot from.
I have actually one more problem. I can’t connect to wifi. I see avaible networks that I can connect to but after I put in password it wont connect me.
I ran
ip link
and saw that my network adapter is down.
So I tried running
ip link set wlan0 up
but it didnt work.
When I tried to install Arch I ran into the same problem.
Can somebody help?
There is also nvram (UEFI menu) setting. Until recently, Calamares replaced the main disk default boot entry with the installing OS option. This is physically existing on the internal drive. Unless EnOS installer is bypassing this behavior with some workaround, when the external is disconnected on boot, there may be an issue, depending on UEFI Vendor’s implementation.
I am not aware if this was fixed upstream Calamares. Does anyone know?