<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2014 21:05, Paolo Galtieri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgaltieri@gmail.com" target="_blank">pgaltieri@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 01/15/2014 04:40 PM, Quicksort
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<div>Has anyone successfully installed Fedora 18, 19 or 20 in
dual boot with Windows 8/8.1 ?</div>
<div>How does the installation process differ from setting up
a Fedora/Windows 7 or XP dual boot ?</div>
<div>Are there pitfalls one should know about ?</div>
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I have install F19 on a system with Windows 8/8.1 installed. The
install process created the grub menu entry, however, I cannot boot
Windows 8.1 from the grub menu. I get the following:<br>
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/EndEntire<br>
file path:
/ACPI(...)/PCI(2,1f)/UnknownMessaging(12)/HD(1,800,...)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\)/File(bootmgfw.efi)/Endntire<br>
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error: cannot load image<br>
error: you need to load kernel first<br>
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Press any key to continue ...<br>
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The "Press any key to continue" message must be a joke, because a
few seconds after I get these messages the system reboots. I had to
try to boot Windows several times to get enough of the first
message. The "..." in the file path message indicates that there is
stuff there but I couldn't get it written down do to the system
rebooting after about 10 seconds.<br>
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The only way I can boot to Windows is to keep hitting F12 until I
get the boot order menu, and select Windows from there.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
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Paolo<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It could be that the Fedora installer created a separate ESP (EFI system partition) and didn't just use the existing ESP that windows had already created. (IIRC that bug was fixed in F20 and the installer now mounts the already existing ESP as /boot/efi). You can tell if there's more than one ESP by using 'fdisk -l' or 'parted -l'.<br>
<br></div><div>If that's the case then the easiest way is to consolidate the two ESP partitions and use the one that windows had already created, have a look at <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1661415#post1661415">http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1661415#post1661415</a><br>
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