Boot Win10 from an ISO-Image on a certain partition using GRUB2
I have bought a laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T520) with a locked BIOS. So I can't change the boot order of the laptop. The upmost device in the boot order is the internal HDD
. Fortunately there is a working Linux with Grub2
installed, which I have access to.
I also want to install Windows 10 now. How do I have to change the Grub2
-configuration in order to be able to boot the Windows-installation from a Win10-Boot-Medium (ISO)?
If you're using UEFI and only looking for a temporary solution (to run the installer), extract the Windows installer contents to a data partition (so it doesn't have a system on it). Make sure to have it at the top level, not in a folder, otherwise the installer fails to load. Then in GRUB enter the command line (c) and find the hard drive using ls
, then enter chainloader (hdX,X)/efi/bootx64.efi
and boot
. This should boot into the Windows installer. After it finishes installing, you can delete the installer's files and folders:
autorun.inf boot bootmgr bootmgr.efi efi setup.exe sources support