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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