On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, at 4:38 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
- Documentation: GRUB's Windows boot option may not work, how to use efibootmgr --bootnext and --bootorder
Currently there is this (insufficient, of course):
Looks pretty good actually. What's missing or unclear?
I think we should consider swapping the built-in bootmanager and efibootmgr sections. The efibootmgr section needs enhancement first: how to find the Windows boot entry number; use case 1: do a one time boot of windows with --bootnext; use case 2: persistently make Windows or Fedora the default boot OS with --bootorder; use case 3: boot Fedora from Windows when Windows is the default boot OS. Each with examples and screenshots.
The efibootmgr CLI is a consistent interface for everyone. It's much easier to document concisely. The firmware method defies screenshots or examples. I'd either make it a secondary section or remove it, but have no strong feeling about it.
I'd like to see some proper guide available in Fedora Docs/Quick Docs/wiki that I could reference from that Common Issue entry.
I'd like Ask and Quickdoc to be essentially identical. This no conflicting info between them. Each is a single authoritative source. And each should be updated in parity.
In the near term, we're looking at an awareness and documentation effort, while seeing how the other options shake out. And it probably doesn't significantly matter whether we change the release criterion now or also wait a bit longer.
We can change the criterion shortly before Final, if needed. Since we expect the situation to improve in the future, we could just add a (temporary) footnote to the existing criterion saying that the special case of Windows partitions encrypted by Bitlocker are exempt from the requirement (of booting Windows from GRUB).
One pretty big weakness I missed in the summary: the non-functional Windows menu item in GRUB. That's quite a trap. I'm not sure any documentation adequately addresses this. But I also don't know an easy way to detect this situation and either inhibit creation of or remove this item.