A few months ago I installed Fedora 20 as dual boot on a new Dell desktop - one with UEFI. But I got confused while installing it and set the BIOS to "legacy boot mode" before the installation. As a result, I have a PC which boots to Grub and Fedora works fine. However I can't get to the Windows 8 installation and if I switch back to UEFI boot mode, then the system won't boot at all. This works fine for me most of the time, but occasionally I want to run Windows on the system. So I'd like to fix my errors and end up with a real dual-boot system. As I see it, my plan should be something like this: 1/ Back up everything important from the Linux partitions. 2/ Use the Windows restore CD to repair the Windows UEFI boot. 3/ Reinstall Fedora using UEFI boot instead of legacy. I'm hoping that if I note the partitions and directories before I start, then I'll be able to re-use the same partitions for the same directories as I currently have. Only my system partition will have changed and I'll need to reinstall some RPMs. Does this sound like a reasonable plan? Is there anything I might be able to do which will make it easier? Oh, and the system has an SSD which it uses for booting Windows. Is there any chance that I install Fedora so that it uses this (but without disturbing the Windows boot files)? Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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
