Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:09:29PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2015 13:36:53 Chris Murphy wrote:
> > ++ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
> >
> > This is why it's not making the Windows entry. I mentioned it previously.
> > So comment out that line in /etc/default/grub and then rerun grub2-mkconfig
> > -o ... to make a new grub.cfg in the proper location.
> >
> > Chris Murphy
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Sorry I missed that. It's now included a chain loader entry for Windows, 
> included below.
> 
> As you suggested, I tried looking at the man page for grub2-mkconfig. 
> Unfortunately, I don't have that man page installed so I tried googling it. 
> The search pointed me to 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2
> 
> which has only succeeded in confusing me more.  Based on the generated config 
> file below, am I right in thinking that all I need to do to get GRUB to work 
> and to allow me to boot windows is to:
> 
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> 
> Assuming this is correct, I still need to work out how to get the laptop to 
> boot GRUB instead of the Windows OS Boot loader.

Yews, I believe that is correct. But just to save yourself some grief, make sure
that ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are installed BEFORE you do that.

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