Windows 8 EFI unbootable after F19-TC1 installation.

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 08:33 -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 06:54 AM, A.J. Werkman wrote:
> > 
> > Op 6-6-2013 15:41, Kamil Paral schreef:
> >>> >
> >>> >Is this a Fedora problem or is hardware setup to be blamed?
> >> I think mixing UEFI and BIOS is not expected to work. But you shouldn't have any problem running both systems - just use your one-time boot menu your UEFI/BIOS provides and either start Windows, or Fedora.
> > 
> > That's my problem. As soon as I have F19 installed, and select 'Windows Boot Maneger' from the one-time bootmenu, it does not start windows but returns too the bios boot menu.
> 
> As a diagnostic, please run  "efibootmgr --verbose"  and post the output.
> This will show what fedora thinks is the boot order and parameters
> for EFI booting.
> 
> My UEFI+BIOS on ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3 generates a one-time boot menu
> that lists everything (including separate BIOS mode and UEFI mode
> boots for "the same" partition where plausible) but currently
> I cannot install f19-TC1 because of
>   [Bug 947142] write to /sys/firmware/efi/vars/new_var results in ENOSPC
> I suspect that both ASUS and Fedora still have bugs here.

Final TC1 was supposed to include a kernel that ought to make things a
lot better, but it got inadvertently left out. It'll be in TC2.
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