Re: Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

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On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:25 AM, Andre Costa <blueser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
  • 1M BIOS boot partition
  • 500M Linux boot partition
  • 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
  • 200G unused space

Wait a minute, I need to back this train up a whole lot.

You have a BIOS Boot partition. That means this disk uses GPT partitioning, not MBR partitioning. Windows on BIOS hardware will only boot from a disk that's MBR partitioned. Windows on UEFI hardware will only boot from a disk that's GPT partitioned.

So you actually have some difficulty with this layout  if your computer is BIOS based, it will refuse to install to this GPT partitioned disk. And if it's UEFI, there's some difficulty because then it means you've somehow enabled the UEFI CSM-BIOS when installing Fedora. And combining UEFI booting Windows with BIOS booting Fedora poses some problems, I'd have to go look at the various bugs in bugzilla to refresh my memory about it.

In any case, we need to know if your computer's firmware is BIOS or UEFI.


Chris Murphy
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