On May 28, 2015 5:03 PM, "Bill Oliver" <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote: > >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: >>> >>> >>> Help! >>> >>> I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows >>> option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out >>> yesterday, I jumped to it. I installed it without a problem, but the >>> Windows option is no longer listed. >>> >>> The Windows partitions are still there(the fdisk output is >>> below. >>> >>> Any help on how to add it to the boot options? >> >> >> I dunno if this will help you with F22, but here it is, FWIW. >> >> I have a dual-core netbook that came with Win7, and I shrank the >> partition and installed F19 in the resulting free space, back when F19 >> was not EOL. The F19 installation found the bootable windoze partition(s) >> without trouble and set up Grub accordingly. >> >> But when I replaced the F19 system with Centos-7, it did not. >> >> After some digging and list replies to my queries, one kind person told >> me to try this: >> >> 1) Install ntfs "support" >> yum install -y epel-release >> yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs >> >> 2) re-run the grub config gen script >> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg >> >> now, for Fedora, you probably don't need to install the EPEL repo, >> I think ntfs-3g is probably available in the Fedora repos. >> >> If, by any chance, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are NOT installed already, >> that would explain why the windows partition was not found. >> >> to make this long story short(er), once I did those steps, Grub now >> supports booting windows as well as Centos. >> >> >> > > Thanks, but no joy: > > %grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > Generating grub configuration file ... > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 > Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64.img > Found linux image: > /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950 > Found initrd image: > /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950.img > done > > billo > > -- >
Look in /boot/efi/EFI. There should be Microsoft files there. If not, they are... in c:\Windows\something... I'll check notes if need be but mostly replying to point out: on a UEFI system, the grub config is at /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg - not the path you used. -- Pete
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