I just installed Fedora29 on my brand new HP laptop. The installation
went fine, and Fedora comes up fine. However, I was trying to install
it as a dual boot machine, and the Windows option does not come up
either with a "normal" grub bootup or when I choose boot options in
BIOS.
THe box has hybrid drive -- 256G SSD and 1 TB regular. I'm installing
everything on the SSD right now, and then will link out stuff or
repartition just a bit to move things to the 1 TB drive. But I thought
I'd just stick to the SSD for installation to minimize hassles.
I didn't delete or overwrite the EFI partition, and /boot/efi has what
appears to be old HP, Microsoft, and Boot directories in addition to
the new fedora directory.
The only thing that was unusual in this installation was that I got the
warning that because I was using GPT, I had to create a 1 MB
bootsomethingsomething partition -- which I did.
So, now my drive looks like:
partition name fs mount sz flags
/dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI fat32 /boot/efi 260 MB boot,esp
/dev/nvme0n1p2 MS reserved unknown 16 MB msftres
/dev/nvme0n1p3 basic data ntfs 60 GB msftdata
/dev/nvme0n1p5 grub2.core.img 2 MB bios_grub
/dev/nvme0n1p6 lvm2 pv fedora 55.89 GB lvm
/dev/nvme0n1p4 basic data ntfs 980 MB hidden,diag
There's about 121 unallocated GB on the SSD, and the 1 TB drive isn't
mounted.
Eventually, this will be a triple boot system, with the other OS being
qubesOS. However, I need a vanilla Fedora boot option because qubesOS
won't support some graphics I need for some apps. But, I usually
install the Qubes stuff last, since it's such a joy.
So, I have two questions:
1) WHat is this 1 M bootsomethingsomething I had to make? It looks
like it turned into something called bios_grub. I've never had to do
this before.
2) Can someone point me to resources to learn how to troubleshoot
making grub see my Windows stuff? Or give me any ideas?
Thanks!
billo
