On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, William Oliver wrote: > I just installed Fedora29 on my brand new HP laptop. The > installation > went fine, and Fedora comes up fine. However, I was trying to > install > it as a dual boot machine, and the Windows option does not come up > either with a "normal" grub bootup or when I choose boot options in > BIOS. > > THe box has hybrid drive -- 256G SSD and 1 TB regular. I'm > installing > everything on the SSD right now, and then will link out stuff or > repartition just a bit to move things to the 1 TB drive. But I > thought > I'd just stick to the SSD for installation to minimize hassles. > > I didn't delete or overwrite the EFI partition, and /boot/efi has > what > appears to be old HP, Microsoft, and Boot directories in addition to > the new fedora directory. > > The only thing that was unusual in this installation was that I got > the > warning that because I was using GPT, I had to create a 1 MB > bootsomethingsomething partition -- which I did. > > So, now my drive looks like: > > partition name fs mount sz flags > /dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI fat32 /boot/efi 260 MB boot,esp > /dev/nvme0n1p2 MS reserved unknown 16 MB msftres > /dev/nvme0n1p3 basic data ntfs 60 GB msftdata > /dev/nvme0n1p5 grub2.core.img 2 MB bios_grub > /dev/nvme0n1p6 lvm2 pv fedora 55.89 GB lvm > /dev/nvme0n1p4 basic data ntfs 980 > MB hidden,diag > > There's about 121 unallocated GB on the SSD, and the 1 TB drive isn't > mounted. > > Eventually, this will be a triple boot system, with the other OS > being > qubesOS. However, I need a vanilla Fedora boot option because > qubesOS > won't support some graphics I need for some apps. But, I usually > install the Qubes stuff last, since it's such a joy. > > So, I have two questions: > > 1) WHat is this 1 M bootsomethingsomething I had to make? It looks > like it turned into something called bios_grub. I've never had to do > this before. > > 2) Can someone point me to resources to learn how to troubleshoot > making grub see my Windows stuff? Or give me any ideas? > > > Thanks! > > billo > _______________________________________________ >
OK, my apologies to the list. I had managed somewhere in my poking around to turn on legacy boot, and installed Fedora then. I noticed that, disabled legacy boot (which then gave the very frightening warning of "no operating system present"), and then re-installed Fedora, and now both Windows and Fedora come up as options in the BIOS boot options and both work. So, here's an easier (I hope) question. I remember back in the day, when I would power up my machine in dual boot mode, grub would give me a grub menu that let me choose the OS. Now, it just comes up in Windows. If I want to boot into Fedora, I have to get into BIOS boot options and choose it there. It's not that big a deal, but it would be easier not to have to start hammering on the escape key when I reboot... billo _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
