I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:02:40PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
> >>
> >>Help!
> >>
> >>I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8.  In GRUB, the Windows
> >>option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader".  When Fedora 22 came out
> >>yesterday, I jumped to it.  I installed it without a problem, but the
> >>Windows option is no longer listed.
> >>
> >>The Windows partitions are still there(the fdisk output is
> >>below.
> >>
> >>Any help on how to add it to the boot options?
> >
> >I dunno if this will help you with F22, but here it is, FWIW.
> >
> >I have a dual-core netbook that came with Win7, and I shrank the
> >partition and installed F19 in the resulting free space, back when F19
> >was not EOL. The F19 installation found the bootable windoze partition(s)
> >without trouble and set up Grub accordingly.
> >
> >But when I replaced the F19 system with Centos-7, it did not.
> >
> >After some digging and list replies to my queries, one kind person told
> >me to try this:
> >
> >	1) Install ntfs "support"
> >	yum install -y epel-release
> >	yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs
> >
> >	2) re-run the grub config gen script
> >	grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> >
> >now, for Fedora, you probably don't need to install the EPEL repo,
> >I think ntfs-3g is probably available in the Fedora repos.
> >
> >If, by any chance, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are NOT installed already,
> >that would explain why the windows partition was not found.
> >
> >to make this long story short(er), once I did those steps, Grub now
> >supports booting windows as well as Centos.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks, but no joy:

I assume that you made sure ntfs-eg and ntfsprogs were installed
prior to this attempt? (you didn't say, and since it's important,
thought it not unreasonabke to ask.)

> 
> %grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64.img
> Found linux image:
> /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950
> Found initrd image:
> /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950.img
> done
> 
> billo
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