Dual booting Win10 and Ubuntu on dedicated drives

[Aolish]

Hi all, I finally got the upgrade to Win10 just yesterday and am wanting to upgrade from 8.1. There are a couple of questions that I'd like answered before I go through with this and I'm just wondering if anyone else has a similar setup as I do:

1. I have a dual boot with Ubuntu and Win8.1 on two separate drives. One has Ubuntu and the other has Win8.1 installed onto it with grub as the boot loader on the second drive (I think lol) Will installing Win10 do anything to mess up this setup or will it be fine? The reason why I ask is because of an article that I've read that I can't really grasp and understand because of all the technical jargon. Any clarification would be appreciated as to what this article is talking about in an easy to understand language. The following link points to the article:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...t-mandatory-locks-out-other-operating-systems

2. I'm currently using Steam Mover to move all my games from SSD to HDD so I can keep the SSD clear of clutter as much as possible. From what I understand, Steam Mover uses a feature called Junction to do this. Will installing Win10 interfere with any sort of junction that steam mover used?

Thanks for any clarifications.

 

[Elixer]

Yes, win 10 will rewrite the bootloader.
You would need to reinstall grub after you install win 10.

Haven't used 'steam mover' before, but, there is no need for this anymore anyway. You can install any steam game on whatever drive you want.

 

[KillerBee]

The best thing to run with dualboot Ubuntu and Windows is "Boot-Repair"
if you can get to your installed Ubuntu - or you can run it from a live Ubuntu usb stick.

It will search and find all Windows and Linux installs and add it to the boot menu.

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair; \ sudo apt-get update; \ sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

or burn this to a usb to boot off http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

 

[Aolish]

Thanks a lot!