Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-23 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > His quoting is often broken for some reason. That whole section was > actually added by him. Probably needs to add one more blank line between quotes and replies. Some email editors are terrible at mis-joining sections. And confusing

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/22/23 17:30, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, Bill Cunningham wrote: Would it be that entering the simple grub2-install (like with a mbr boot) would work? That's the important thing, to rescue a fedora system and get it running. The other things about uefi I could learn in

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 07:30:16PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: < 90 quoted lines omitted > That sure was a lot of quoteage for just a B. As was your reply. -- Jon H. LaBadie jo...@jgcomp.com ___ users mailing list --

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-22 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 21 Sep 2023, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 02:48 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > You have to find out what your "F" key is to enter your BIOS/UEFI boot > menu - on my machine (Dell/Alienware) the key for that menu is F12 - > you have to be very quick to press that key after powering on your > computer - see your

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 20:23 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: ... Since UEFI, most USB sticks for installation and/or rescue are configured to boot in either legacy or EFI mode. When the UEFI BIOS has CSM (legacy) booting enabled,

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 20:23 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: ... >> Since UEFI, most USB sticks for installation and/or rescue are configured to >> boot >> in either legacy or EFI mode. When the UEFI BIOS has CSM (legacy) booting >> enabled, >> such USB sticks will show two

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:23:44PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: Does that mean you use a F key to boot from a USB stick? My UEFI is always putting the OS before the USB stick. I have to change it to boot from a USB stick. How do you use this "BBS Hotkey? You have to find out what your "F"

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/21/23 17:23, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/21/2023 8:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Also with UEFI, it's preferred to have the HDD/SSD's preferred OS as top priority, and to use the BBS hotkey whenever an alternative boot device is desired instead. Does that mean you use a F key to boot from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 03:59:23PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: If you're using EFI, you don't need to do anything. Windows and Fedora have separate, independent bootloaders. The only thing you might have to do is tell your BIOS that you want Fedora as the default boot option. (Unless windows

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 8:11 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 19:52 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: # efibootmgr -o 0,4,1,2,3 BootCurrent: 0005 Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: ,0004,0001,0002,0003,0005 Boot* fedoraHD(... Boot0001* UEFI OS HD(... Boot0002*

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 19:52 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> # efibootmgr -o 0,4,1,2,3 >> BootCurrent: 0005 >> Timeout: 1 seconds >> BootOrder: ,0004,0001,0002,0003,0005 >> Boot* fedora HD(... >> Boot0001* UEFI OS HD(... >> Boot0002* Hard DriveBBS(HD...

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 7:23 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 18:43 (UTC-0400): its bootloader will be default. I will need to boot into the fedora rescue mode. This is where grub will need to be put. With mbr boot, I used this- grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig; Then

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Felix Miata
Bill Cunningham composed on 2023-09-21 18:43 (UTC-0400): > its bootloader will be default. I will need to boot into the fedora > rescue mode. This is where grub will need to be put. With mbr boot, I > used this- > grub2-install /dev/sda > grub2-mkconfig; > Then set the default. All is fine.

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/21/23 15:43, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/21/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/21/2023 04:24 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: What I would like to do for example, is if I removed a Windows OS, for example, the partition data (for fedora) would need to be reset. Say I reinstalled the system

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 6:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 09/21/2023 04:24 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: What I would like to do for example, is if I removed a Windows OS, for example, the partition data (for fedora) would need to be reset. Say I reinstalled the system (windows). I believe that windows could

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/21/2023 04:24 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote: What I would like to do for example, is if I removed a Windows OS, for example, the partition data (for fedora) would need to be reset. Say I reinstalled the system (windows). I believe that windows could take care of itself but I am going to

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/21/2023 5:53 PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote:     I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 09:02:42AM +0100, Barry wrote: On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-20 Thread Barry
> On 20 Sep 2023, at 01:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of > itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there > a way to simply reinstall the boot loader code without having to install from >

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Tim via users
On Tue, 2023-09-19 at 20:40 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of > itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is > there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader code without having to > install from

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/19/2023 9:21 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Sep 19, 2023, at 20:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader

Re: restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sep 19, 2023, at 20:41, Bill Cunningham wrote: > > I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of > itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there > a way to simply reinstall the boot loader code without having to install from >

restoring fedora boot manager

2023-09-19 Thread Bill Cunningham
    I had to reinstall my windows system which is fine it takes care of itself. But, I have to install my entire fedora system from scratch. Is there a way to simply reinstall the boot loader code without having to install from scratch with a UEFI system? I'm sure there is but I don't know