I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

Michael D. Setzer II mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Fri May 29 20:51:47 UTC 2015


On 29 May 2015 at 13:54, Bill Oliver wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 29 May 2015 13:54:14 +0000 (UTC)
From:           	Bill Oliver <vendor at billoblog.com>
To:             	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to:      	Community support for Fedora users 
<users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject:        	Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

> 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
> 

What do you get when you run os-prober and /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober??
Do you get nothing or an error?

What does blkid report.




> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> billo


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