UEFI issue for dual boot.

Mike Chambers mike at mtchambers.com
Mon Feb 3 15:48:06 UTC 2014


On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 21:18 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Successfully installed F19 (a few months ago) with UEFI and it boots 
> into Fedora with no issues.  Trying to boot into Windows gives an error 
> about finding the EFI files.
> 
> On investigation, I find that there are two EFI boot enabled partitions. 
>   One has the Windows files (/dev/sda1) and the other is the Linux boot 
> partitions (/dev/sda4).
> 
> How do I move or change the configuration so I can dual boot in Windows 
> as the grub menu selection for the Windows boot manager doesn't point to 
> /dev/sda1.

I have EFI but at startup before BIOS, I can select how to boot up a CD
or whatever, and couple of the choices are EFI or legacy (old way).  I
choose legacy, then do the install and therefore use normal grub2 and
dual boot with no issues.


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Mike Chambers
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