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
On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, William Oliver wrote:
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:
- 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.
- Can someone point me to resources to learn how to troubleshoot
making grub see my Windows stuff? Or give me any ideas?
Thanks!
billo _______________________________________________
OK, my apologies to the list. I had managed somewhere in my poking around to turn on legacy boot, and installed Fedora then. I noticed that, disabled legacy boot (which then gave the very frightening warning of "no operating system present"), and then re-installed Fedora, and now both Windows and Fedora come up as options in the BIOS boot options and both work.
So, here's an easier (I hope) question. I remember back in the day, when I would power up my machine in dual boot mode, grub would give me a grub menu that let me choose the OS. Now, it just comes up in Windows. If I want to boot into Fedora, I have to get into BIOS boot options and choose it there. It's not that big a deal, but it would be easier not to have to start hammering on the escape key when I reboot...
billo
On 1/3/19 10:41 AM, William Oliver wrote:
So, here's an easier (I hope) question. I remember back in the day, when I would power up my machine in dual boot mode, grub would give me a grub menu that let me choose the OS. Now, it just comes up in Windows. If I want to boot into Fedora, I have to get into BIOS boot options and choose it there. It's not that big a deal, but it would be easier not to have to start hammering on the escape key when I reboot...
Hopefully your BIOS has a place to change the priority of the boot options. If you can't find that, then maybe you can use efibootmgr to change the order.
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William Oliver