On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Nick Urbanik <nick.urbanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > -- Hi, In a number of laptops @work that have Fedora + *gasp* Windows 8.1, we actually found out that grub was not damaged, instead, we simply had to point the BIOS to a different partition. - Gilboa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
