MANJARO Duel Boot with WINDOWS

This Article will help you installing Manjaro in Windows pre-installed system.

Step 1

Download MANJARO ISO file from this page

I prefer KDE edition

Step 2

• In Linux:

  1_ Make sure you have the 4GB or larger USB Flash Disk (USB 3.0 is highly recommended).
  2_ Plugin USB Flash Disk.
  3_ Get path to your device(USB Flash Disk) node using lsblk command.
  4_ unmount USB Flash Disk (don’t unplug) by
  sudo umount <PATH> replace ‘<PATH>’ by path of your USB Flash Disk.
  5_ Write iso image to USB Flash Disk by
  sudo dd bs=4M if=<ISO-PATH> of=<PATH> status=progress && sync
  replace ‘<ISO-PATH>’ by path of manjaro iso file.
  and replace ‘<PATH>’ by path of your USB Flash Disk.
  6_ Now unplug your USE Flash Disk.

• In Windows:

  1_ Download Rufus from https://rufus.ie/ (or) Github Releases.
  2_ Run it if you downloaded Portable Version otherwise Install and Run it.
  3_ Select your USB Flash Disk in ‘Device’ drop down list box.
  4_ Select Manjaro iso file in ‘Boot selection’ drop down list box.
  5_ Then click ‘START’ Button (only once).
  6_ After done unplug your USE Flash Disk.

• In Android:

  https://github.com/EtchDroid/EtchDroid

Step 3

Now your USE Flash Disk is ready to BOOT :]
1_ Plug your USB Flash Disk and Restart your PC.
2_ Probably it will now show window with ‘Welcome to Manjaro’ title.

If Not :(

It need some modifications in BIOS. (see this)

3_ Now select ‘Boot: Manjaro.x86_64 .*’ to boot into live-environment.

Step 4

Now we are good to install MANJARO to one of the partision ^-^
1_ This time also we have a window with ‘Welcome to Manjaro’ title and ‘Launch installer’ button.
2_ Click ‘Launch installer’ button, set Location, then Keyboard (choose English US - Default).
3_ In Partitions section: Detailed INFO

i) create a partision for root:

Size = most of space allocated for Linux
Type = ext4; Mount Point = /; Flag = root

ii) create a partision for swap (virtual RAM):

Size = mostly 3GB
Type = linuxswap; Flag = swap

iii) if installer asked to create partision for /boot/efi:

Size = Max 500 MB
Type = fat32; Mount Point = /boot/efi; Flag = boot

4_ Enter username and password
5_ press INSTALL
6_ After installation completed shutdown, unplug USB Flash Disk, and start.

Step 5

• If grub shows both MANJARO and Windows, then Installation done successfully :) (see this for ease setup)
• If grub shows only MANJARO, then we have to update grub :|

  Boot Manjaro, goto terminal, enter sudo update-grub. Now grub will show both MANJARO and Windows.

• If grub stuck or grub rescue appears. It is due to no proper grub config available :(

  1_ This time we need the Bootable USB Flash Disk we used for installation.
  2_ Shutdown, Plugin USB Flash Disk, start.
  3_ Execute this commands in live boot. /dev/sdX is the disk has manjaro installed.

  su
  manjaro-chroot -a # choose manjaro installed partition.
  cd /boot/grub
  grub-mkconfig -o grub.cfg
  grub-install /dev/sdX
  exit
  exit
  

  4_ Shutdown, Unplug USB Flash Disk, start.
  5_ Boot Manjaro, goto terminal, enter sudo update-grub. Now grub will show both MANJARO and Windows.

Step 6

MANJARO installed successfully. Now its time to setup MANJARO properly, update, and install necessary packages.
see bit.ly/man-manjaro