Win 7->10 Upgrade on Dual-Boot (Win 7/F22) Machine

Lester M. Petrie Jr. petrielmjr at ornl.gov
Fri Aug 28 22:21:21 UTC 2015


On Friday, August 28, 2015 05:38:37 PM Tim Evans wrote:
> Looking for experience with upgrading Win 7 to Win 10 on a dual-boot system.
> 
> My Lenovo T530 came with Win 7 pre-installed.  I shrunk the Windows 
> partition and installed F21 (subsequently upgraded via fedup to F22). 
> Grub2 boot menu offers both Fedora and Win 7.
> 
> Does the Win 10 upgrade leave the grub2 boot setup alone?
> 
I have my grub2 boot on a separate disk, so this may not be applicable, but 
when my machine was upgraded, nothing happened to anything Fedora. However, 
the upgrade did mess up the basic BIOS boot order, so that nothing would boot.
Fortunately, I just rearranged the BIOS order and everything was OK. I haven't
Decided whether Windows 10 is an improvement yet, or not.

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Lester M Petrie
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petrielmjr at ornl.gov



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