Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade. [success]
On 13/07/16 18:47, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin I thought I would post my experience. I started with the fear that it was going to create many headaches. I was wrong. I found the link to upgrade to Windows 10 off the Microsoft site and started the process. Fingers crossed. Various files were downloaded and then it was time to reboot so I did. I was expecting some strange issue on the boot but when the machine asked me to select Windows from grub, I was a bit surprised. Of course this was the first boot. Windows 10 installation started and the reboot process started. I was not paying attention so when I looked again, I was being prompted for the Linux password. CTRL+ALT+DEL and found that grub was still coming up. Booted into windows. All windows reboots were going to grub. At the end, I had Windows 10 installed and tested and it was still being booted through grub. I was very surprised and happy. Booted into Fedora 23 and did the dnf upgrade with only one issue. Using KDE and sddm was not installed. Booted into a terminal. Installed sddm and target graphical.default and all was well. Full upgrade of both systems were done in less than 6 hours without rushing. I guess Microsoft isn't so bad now. Note, this machine is using GPT partitions and has secure boot enabled (other issues in the future). Thanks to all that gave comments. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.
On 14/07/16 19:49, Ger van Dijck wrote: Op Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:47:13 +0200 schreef Robin Laing : I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- Just do the upgrade to Windows 10 and reinstall new Fedora 24 : When upgrading to Windows 10 Fedora keeps in the bootloader the name of the former version of Windows , then reinstall new Fdora 24 and in the bootloader appears Windows 10. My experience is that when you upgrade or do a new install of Windows dual boot does not functionate anymore. Greetings , I haven't played around with this functionality for quite some time since moving from a Linux distro that allowed the linux boot blocks (and hence dual boot functionality) to be installed to a partition. As I understand it a Windows install will install its boot blocks to the mbr of the disk it is installed on. Grub via grub2-install will let you install the grub boot blocks to the mbr on any physical disk that is available, so if you multiple disks you can install the grub dual-boot boot blocks to hard disk that Windows is not installed on, and then configure your bios (assuming your bios has this capability) to boot from the disk that has the linux boot blocks instead of the disk that has the windows boot blocks. Failing that there is an application that you can install on to a dvd that will search your system for grub config files and let you boot from any entry in the configs it can find, so you could use it to boot back into linux and then use grub to put the dual-boot boot blocks back into the mbr. regards, Steve Ger van Dijck. users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.
Op Thu, 14 Jul 2016 02:47:13 +0200 schreef Robin Laing : I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- Just do the upgrade to Windows 10 and reinstall new Fedora 24 : When upgrading to Windows 10 Fedora keeps in the bootloader the name of the former version of Windows , then reinstall new Fdora 24 and in the bootloader appears Windows 10. My experience is that when you upgrade or do a new install of Windows dual boot does not functionate anymore. Greetings , Ger van Dijck. users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.
On 13/07/16 20:38, Doug wrote: On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home and swap. In one case it worked perfectly. In the other case, it turned the two Linux partitions (but not swap) into one big "unallocated" partition. I never knew why. I did not try to rescue the "unallocated" partition--it might have had the files and data buried in it, but I don't know. So my best advice to you is to backup anything you want to keep onto a USB drive or something before you do it. And of course, Windows will almost certainly wipe out your dual-boot, so you will have to set that back up. (Windows can't seem to install anything big without rebooting a time or two, so it sets up its own boot manager.) Oh, I tried to do it one other time, with some poorly documented program that was supposed to let Windows operate the dual-boot function. This time I wound up losing Windows 7, so I had nothing to upgrade from. Altho I really hardly ever use Windows, there are one or two things that I need it for, and I usually need it on _that_ machine, so I bought a new Win 10-Pro disk and installed it, and then reinstalled Linux. Phooey! --doug Hello Doug, Thank you. I guess I will get prepared to do an install if needed. You confirmed my thoughts. I need to upgrade the machine to Fedora 24 so I thought I would kill two birds with one stone and as I am prepared for Windows to screw things up, I will let it go first. I tried to get windows boot manager to work as well with no success. It happened when I needed the computer for work. It was a failure. At least the Linux boot was good. That machine now has no windows. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
Re: dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.
On 07/13/2016 07:47 PM, Robin Laing wrote: I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- I did this twice. In both cases I had a dual-boot Windows plus Linux / and /home and swap. In one case it worked perfectly. In the other case, it turned the two Linux partitions (but not swap) into one big "unallocated" partition. I never knew why. I did not try to rescue the "unallocated" partition--it might have had the files and data buried in it, but I don't know. So my best advice to you is to backup anything you want to keep onto a USB drive or something before you do it. And of course, Windows will almost certainly wipe out your dual-boot, so you will have to set that back up. (Windows can't seem to install anything big without rebooting a time or two, so it sets up its own boot manager.) Oh, I tried to do it one other time, with some poorly documented program that was supposed to let Windows operate the dual-boot function. This time I wound up losing Windows 7, so I had nothing to upgrade from. Altho I really hardly ever use Windows, there are one or two things that I need it for, and I usually need it on _that_ machine, so I bought a new Win 10-Pro disk and installed it, and then reinstalled Linux. Phooey! --doug -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
dual boot - Windows 10 upgrade.
I need to do the windows 10 upgrade on a dual boot laptop. Any serious worries I need to watch out for? Thank you in advance. Robin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
