Dual Boot Windows 8.1 Professional Fedora 20

[Chris Murphy]

On May 17, 2014, at 8:50 AM, Ger van Dijck <vandijck.ger at skynet.be> wrote:

> There seem to be lots of problems with dual boot : I solved the problem as follows.
> 
> On a Dell inspiron laptop I did change the bootmode.
> 
> UEFI with Legacy Oprom
> Secure boot Off
> Bootlist option UEFI
> 
> Then I first installed Windows 8.1 Professional , then Fedora 20 .
> 
> Grub functionates perfect and probes on Fedora and displays bootloader Windows on /dev/sda1 and boots the desired
> OS.
> 
> So whre is the problem?

I'm curious what happens if Secure Boot is enabled. That should work also, however I don't know if the chainload from GRUB to Windows works or is even expected to.


Chris Murphy