On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:02:40PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote:
>On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
>>
>>Help!
>>
>>I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows
>>option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out
>>yesterday, I jumped to it. I installed it without a problem, but the
>>Windows option is no longer listed.
>>
>>The Windows partitions are still there(the fdisk output is
>>below.
>>
>>Any help on how to add it to the boot options?
>
>I dunno if this will help you with F22, but here it is, FWIW.
>
>I have a dual-core netbook that came with Win7, and I shrank the
>partition and installed F19 in the resulting free space, back when F19
>was not EOL. The F19 installation found the bootable windoze partition(s)
>without trouble and set up Grub accordingly.
>
>But when I replaced the F19 system with Centos-7, it did not.
>
>After some digging and list replies to my queries, one kind person told
>me to try this:
>
> 1) Install ntfs "support"
> yum install -y epel-release
> yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs
>
> 2) re-run the grub config gen script
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
>now, for Fedora, you probably don't need to install the EPEL repo,
>I think ntfs-3g is probably available in the Fedora repos.
>
>If, by any chance, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are NOT installed already,
>that would explain why the windows partition was not found.
>
>to make this long story short(er), once I did those steps, Grub now
>supports booting windows as well as Centos.
>
>
>
Thanks, but no joy:
I assume that you made sure ntfs-eg and ntfsprogs were installed
prior to this attempt? (you didn't say, and since it's important,
thought it not unreasonabke to ask.)
%grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64.img
Found linux image:
/boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950
Found initrd image:
/boot/initramfs-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950.img
done
billo
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