I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Fri May 29 13:54:14 UTC 2015


On Fri, 29 May 2015, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

>> [snip]
>
> I was going to recommand the grub2-mkconfig, but you show it isn't finding
> the windows?
>
> With my Fedora 21, I ran it with an strace to see what it was doing to find the
> windows 7 that I have on machine. Seems it is the following.
> /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
>
> The script seems to use os-prober to find the windows partitions.
> So, see if os-prober reports that it finds any windows partitions.
>
> Not sure is 22 uses the same script, but you might try running it, and see if it
> finds the windows partition.
>
> What does cat /proc/partitions show?

Here it is:

% more /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

    8        0  488386584 sda
    8        1     665600 sda1
    8        2     266240 sda2
    8        3     131072 sda3
    8        4  135359738 sda4
    8        5   25876480 sda5
    8        6  320636928 sda6
    8        7    5443584 sda7
   11        0    1048575 sr0



Thanks!

billo


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