Fedora - Windows 8/8.1 dual boot

[Ahmad Samir]

On 17 January 2014 21:05, Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 01/15/2014 04:40 PM, Quicksort wrote:
>
>  Has anyone successfully installed Fedora 18, 19 or 20 in dual boot with
> Windows 8/8.1 ?
> How does the installation process differ from setting up a Fedora/Windows
> 7 or XP dual boot ?
> Are there pitfalls one should know about ?
>
>
>  I have install F19 on a system with Windows 8/8.1 installed.  The install
> process created the grub menu entry, however, I cannot boot Windows 8.1
> from the grub menu.  I get the following:
>
> /EndEntire
> file path:
> /ACPI(...)/PCI(2,1f)/UnknownMessaging(12)/HD(1,800,...)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\)/File(bootmgfw.efi)/Endntire
>
> error: cannot load image
> error: you need to load kernel first
>
> Press any key to continue ...
>
> The "Press any key to continue" message must be a joke, because a few
> seconds after I get these messages the system reboots.  I had to try to
> boot Windows several times to get enough of the first message.  The "..."
> in the file path message indicates that there is stuff there but I couldn't
> get it written down do to the system rebooting after about 10 seconds.
>
> The only way I can boot to Windows is to keep hitting F12 until I get the
> boot order menu, and select Windows from there.
>
> Paolo
>
>
It could be that the Fedora installer created a separate ESP (EFI system
partition) and didn't just use the existing ESP that windows had already
created. (IIRC that bug was fixed in F20 and the installer now mounts the
already existing ESP as /boot/efi). You can tell if there's more than one
ESP by using 'fdisk -l' or 'parted -l'.

If that's the case then the easiest way is to consolidate the two ESP
partitions and use the one that windows had already created, have a look at
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1661415#post1661415


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Ahmad Samir
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