Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 03:25:32PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Fred Smith > wrote: > > > Yews, I believe that is correct. But just to save yourself some grief, make > > sure > > that ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are installed BEFORE you do that. > > ntfs-3g is includ

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > Yews, I believe that is correct. But just to save yourself some grief, make > sure > that ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are installed BEFORE you do that. ntfs-3g is included by default in Fedora Workstation, but it's not needed on UEFI installs for

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 16:23:54 Chris Murphy wrote: > > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > efibootmgr -v## to list the boots > efibootmgr -o ,0001,0002etc ## to explicitly set the order, Chris, your advice has been priceless and spot on. I now have a laptop that boots in

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:09:29PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 13:36:53 Chris Murphy wrote: > > ++ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true > > > > This is why it's not making the Windows entry. I mentioned it previously. > > So comment out that line in /etc/default/grub and then re

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
And just FYI the Fedora NVRAM entry (revealed with efibootmgr -v) doesn't point to GRUB, it points to shim.efi. That's normal. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fe

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 13:36:53 Chris Murphy wrote: >> ++ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true >> >> This is why it's not making the Windows entry. I mentioned it previously. >> So comment out that line in /etc/default/grub and then rerun grub2-mk

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 15 July 2015 13:36:53 Chris Murphy wrote: > ++ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true > > This is why it's not making the Windows entry. I mentioned it previously. > So comment out that line in /etc/default/grub and then rerun grub2-mkconfig > -o ... to make a new grub.cfg in the proper location.

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Chris Murphy
++ GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true This is why it's not making the Windows entry. I mentioned it previously. So comment out that line in /etc/default/grub and then rerun grub2-mkconfig -o ... to make a new grub.cfg in the proper location. Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
Right, attempt 2. As I started to say, thanks for the help Chris. The log file has been posted to: http://www.stainburn.com/grub2-mkconfig.log Now that the Windows side is working again, I'm wondering if it's worth biting thr bullet and doing a new clean Fedora install. At the moment I'm st

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-15 Thread Gary Stainburn
Thanks for your help Chris, this is invaluable I've posted the log to -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guideli

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > After advice from Chris I've created the Windows recovery USB stick from > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media > > and run it choosing the system repair option. I now have a working Windows 8 > system o

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
After advice from Chris I've created the Windows recovery USB stick from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media and run it choosing the system repair option. I now have a working Windows 8 system on my laptop. Unfortunately, it now boots straight into Windows

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-13 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi Chris, Thanks for this. Just had a fantastic honeymoon, but now back in the real world and onwards with trying to fix this. On Friday 03 July 2015 18:35:47 Chris Murphy wrote: > There's an awful lot going on here. And to vent, I'm going to start > out by saying dual boot sucks. It's not you,

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:19 PM, g wrote: > > > On 07/03/15 15:07, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:42 PM, g wrote: >>> did you by chances in creating files and paths create a file with; >>> >>>/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi >>> >>> when it should have been; >>> >>>/boot/

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread g
On 07/03/15 15:07, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:42 PM, g wrote: >> did you by chances in creating files and paths create a file with; >> >>/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi >> >> when it should have been; >> >>/boot/etc/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi >> >> thereby caus

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 12:42 PM, g wrote: > did you by chances in creating files and paths create a file with; > >/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi > > when it should have been; > >/boot/etc/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi > > thereby causing such an error? /boot/etc/EFI doesn't make any

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread g
On 07/03/15 10:09, Gary Stainburn wrote: <> > I then mkdir /boot/etc/EFI/Microsoft/Boot and copied bootmgfw.efi > from /windows/Windows/Boot/EFI/bootmgfw.efi to /boot/etc/EFI/Microsoft/Boot > > However, although I've fixed most of the error messages, I've still got the > error: . SWAG: > ef

Re: Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread Chris Murphy
There's an awful lot going on here. And to vent, I'm going to start out by saying dual boot sucks. It's not you, users are sane, and dual boot support on Linux just sucks. OK... On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I've finally decided to have a go at fixing the problem where

Windows 8 Dual boot lost after Fedora upgrade

2015-07-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
I've finally decided to have a go at fixing the problem where the Windows 8 option disappeared from my GRUB menu when I upgraded from F19 to F20. Working through various Google responses I've found that i had a load of stuff missing, including * .mod files * /boot/etc/EFI/Microsoft I installe