I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22

[Christopher Bachner]

> On May 29, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Christopher Bachner <b.christopher.92 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On May 29, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net <mailto: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?
>> 
>> 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. 
>> 
>> 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.
> 

Sorry, I think it was not clear enough. I meant Windows 7 Installation Disk.
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