Re: dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 08:47:39AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> Has anyone tried a dual boot of Win 8 and Fedora 17? Are there any
> special problems in doing this?

I suppose it will depend on how Win 8 is installed.

1) Win 8 + UEFI + Secure boot:
   a) If you do not (or can not) disable secure boot then Fed 17
      has no bootloader 'shim' to enable install (as far as I know).
      (but you might be able to do something with
       http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html)  
      However you must find out how to use the UEFI boot menu as
      'os-prober' does not work with UEFI yet so you get no entry
      in the grub menu for Win 8.
   b) If you disable secure boot there is no problem except that
      'os-prober' does not work and I do not know if Win 8 will
      except this without fiddling (or in the worst case reinstall)
   c) Win 8 was already installed without secure boot then everything
      works as expected except 'os-prober'.

2) Win 8 + BIOS: no problems. 

Alexander

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