The problem is not happening *today*.
The potential problem is
with future
motherboard firmware that is designed
to *only* boot Windows.
So,
yes, you can do dual boot, *today*,
with *current* motherboard
firmware.
He's asking if a computer booting Ubuntu/RedHat might
also boot Windows. That is, is what Canonical/RedHat proposing going to break
the ability to also boot Windows.
Going back to the original
concern:
As I understand it, both RedHat's and Ubuntu's solutions
assume a single OS
loaded on a PC.
I don't know where this
understanding came from. It's the bootloader that decides if it will pick among
more than one OS on the hard drive or if it will be hardwired to boot only one.
Especially in the case of RedHat that is continuing to use the GRUB2 bootloader,
no feature like that is lost. And I can't imagine Canonical picking a
bootloader that also didn't have that feature. Personally, I'd need it just to
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