According to user reports following this month's Patch Tuesday, the August 2024 Windows security updates are breaking dual boot on some Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled.

Many PC users with Windows-and-Linux dual-boot setups woke up to a scary message this week: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” Apparently, the latest patch to Windows 10 and Windows 11 ...

It has been discovered that a problem that prevented dual booting of Windows and Linux due to a Windows security update in August 2024 has been resolved by a patch distributed in May 2025. May 13 ...

According to foreign media Neowin, many dual-boot PC users who have installed Linux-based operating systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, and Puppy Linux are affected by this issue.

Like most of you, I’ve been using Windows for basically my entire life. And I’ve only briefly been tempted by the ...

If you are unable to boot into Windows after installing Linux Mint or any other distro on your computer, try updating GRUB, using Boot Repair, and adjusting UEFI settings.

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed ...

Some are concerned that Microsoft's coming Windows 8 secure-boot technologies and policies could result in users being unable to dual-boot Linux alongside Windows 8. Microsoft officials aren't ...

Are you dual-booting Linux and Windows? If you'd prefer to have Windows boot up first, we'll show you how.

As we reported last month, Windows 8 computers that ship with UEFI secure booting enabled could make the task of replacing Windows with Linux or dual-booting the two operating systems more difficult.