On May 28, 2015 5:03 PM, "Bill Oliver" <vendor(a)billoblog.com> 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:
%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
--
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:
on a UEFI system, the grub config is at /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg - not
the path you used.
-- Pete