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On May 28, 2015 5:03 PM, "Bill Oliver" <<a href="mailto:vendor@billoblog.com">vendor@billoblog.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote:<br>
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>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:<br>
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>>> Help!<br>
>>><br>
>>> I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows<br>
>>> option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out<br>
>>> yesterday, I jumped to it. I installed it without a problem, but the<br>
>>> Windows option is no longer listed.<br>
>>><br>
>>> The Windows partitions are still there(the fdisk output is<br>
>>> below.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Any help on how to add it to the boot options?<br>
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>><br>
>> I dunno if this will help you with F22, but here it is, FWIW.<br>
>><br>
>> I have a dual-core netbook that came with Win7, and I shrank the<br>
>> partition and installed F19 in the resulting free space, back when F19<br>
>> was not EOL. The F19 installation found the bootable windoze partition(s)<br>
>> without trouble and set up Grub accordingly.<br>
>><br>
>> But when I replaced the F19 system with Centos-7, it did not.<br>
>><br>
>> After some digging and list replies to my queries, one kind person told<br>
>> me to try this:<br>
>><br>
>> 1) Install ntfs "support"<br>
>> yum install -y epel-release<br>
>> yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs<br>
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>> 2) re-run the grub config gen script<br>
>> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg<br>
>><br>
>> now, for Fedora, you probably don't need to install the EPEL repo,<br>
>> I think ntfs-3g is probably available in the Fedora repos.<br>
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>> If, by any chance, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are NOT installed already,<br>
>> that would explain why the windows partition was not found.<br>
>><br>
>> to make this long story short(er), once I did those steps, Grub now<br>
>> supports booting windows as well as Centos.<br>
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> Thanks, but no joy:<br>
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> %grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg<br>
> Generating grub configuration file ...<br>
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64<br>
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64.img<br>
> Found linux image:<br>
> /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950<br>
> Found initrd image:<br>
> /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950.img<br>
> done<br>
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> billo<br>
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> -- <br>
> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Look in /boot/efi/EFI. There should be Microsoft files there. If not, they are... in c:\Windows\something... I'll check notes if need be but mostly replying to point out:</p>
<p dir="ltr">on a UEFI system, the grub config is at /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg - not the path you used.</p>
<p dir="ltr">-- Pete</p>