[FIXED] Re: UEFI: After upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, F19 grub menu does not appear

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Dear Folks,

On 20/11/13 09:53 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote:
Dear Folks,

I installed Fedora 19 on my son's laptop, and it worked beautifully
with the already installed Windows 8.  Then foolishly, I upgraded the
Windows 8 to Windows 8.1.  Now it boots straight to Windows 8.1 and
grub does not appear.

I disabled secure boot in the firmware.

I do not even know which version of grub was booting the UEFI system
before; it just worked.

Now I need to know.

Can anyone suggest:

1. What grub would the Fedora 19 installer have provided to boot it
  and Windows 8?  (grub2, grub-efi,...)
2. Can anyone point to any documentation on how to fix this?

I am a little nervous on this, as I once attempted to upgrade an F18
UEFI stand alone system from grub-efi to grub2 with the result that I
could not boot the machine, and wound up re-installing Fedora.

I have a live disk, can boot the machine with that, and have some
experience with grub and non-EFI systems.

After much poking around, and seeing http://askubuntu.com/questions/240496/how-to-show-grub-after-install-ubuntu-over-windows-8
and reading documentation, I did this from a Fedora 19 Live CD;
gdisk to see the partition layout, then efibootmgr to fix it:

[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo gdisk /dev/sda
...
Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 8EB52CEC-C6A8-4A63-8AB3-3675A2AB07DE
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2029 sectors (1014.5 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048          821247   400.0 MiB   2700  Basic data partition
   2          821248         1435647   300.0 MiB   EF00  EFI system partition
   3         1435648         1697791   128.0 MiB   0C01  Microsoft reserved part
   4         1697792       223358975   105.7 GiB   0700  Basic data partition
5 223358976 224075775 350.0 MiB 2700 6 224075776 937428991 340.2 GiB 8E00 7 937428992 976773119 18.8 GiB 2700 Basic data partition

Command (? for help): q
...
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ mount |grep -i efi
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
[liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo efibootmgr -c -p 2 -d /dev/sda -l "\EFI\fedora\grubx64.efi" -L "Fedora"
** Warning ** : Boot0002 has same label Fedora
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0000,0001,0002
Boot0000* ATAPI CDROM: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT51N
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager
Boot0002* Fedora
Boot0003* Fedora
[liveuser@localhost ~]$
Now grub works, and both Fedora and Windows 8.1 boot.
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