I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22
Christopher Bachner
b.christopher.92 at gmail.com
Sat May 30 05:42:27 UTC 2015
> On May 29, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
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> On 29 May 2015 at 22:22, Bill Oliver wrote:
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> Date sent: Fri, 29 May 2015 22:22:36 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Bill Oliver <vendor at billoblog.com <mailto:vendor at billoblog.com>>
> To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net <mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net>>
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> Subject: Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22
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> In doing some searching, it appears that os-prober is looking for the bootmgr
> file, and it isn't either finding it, or it is somewhere it isn't looking.
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> I would at each of the partition and see if any have the bootmgr program on
> them. Wondering if it is on the efi labeled partition only?
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> My windows 7 machines originally had two partitions, and bootmgr was on
> both, so I modified the process to filter out the recover partition on as to not
> show up on the grub list. There was also one site that talked about files being
> hidden, and os-prober couldn't then see them??
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> Also, might want to run strace os-prober and see if it is checking the
> partitions.
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> Had a server 2008 machine some time ago, and it had a separate partition
> with bootmgr on it, and nothing on the actual c partition.
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> Haven't worked with an efi setup, so it might be the bootmgr has a different
> name, perhaps copying it to bootmgr.
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> Probable going to be something simple once it is figured out.
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>> billo
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You can find bootmgr.exe on your Windows 7 Disk.
If the system partition has been removed, I don’t think you are actually screwed.
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