On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:02:40PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: > On Thu, 28 May 2015, Fred Smith wrote: > > >On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:16:27PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: > >> > >>Help! > >> > >>I had a dual boot box using Kubuntu and Windows 8. In GRUB, the Windows > >>option was listed as "Windows Boot Loader". When Fedora 22 came out > >>yesterday, I jumped to it. I installed it without a problem, but the > >>Windows option is no longer listed. > >> > >>The Windows partitions are still there(the fdisk output is > >>below. > >> > >>Any help on how to add it to the boot options? > > > >I dunno if this will help you with F22, but here it is, FWIW. > > > >I have a dual-core netbook that came with Win7, and I shrank the > >partition and installed F19 in the resulting free space, back when F19 > >was not EOL. The F19 installation found the bootable windoze partition(s) > >without trouble and set up Grub accordingly. > > > >But when I replaced the F19 system with Centos-7, it did not. > > > >After some digging and list replies to my queries, one kind person told > >me to try this: > > > > 1) Install ntfs "support" > > yum install -y epel-release > > yum install -y ntfs-3g ntfsprogs > > > > 2) re-run the grub config gen script > > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > > >now, for Fedora, you probably don't need to install the EPEL repo, > >I think ntfs-3g is probably available in the Fedora repos. > > > >If, by any chance, ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs are NOT installed already, > >that would explain why the windows partition was not found. > > > >to make this long story short(er), once I did those steps, Grub now > >supports booting windows as well as Centos. > > > > > > > > Thanks, but no joy: I assume that you made sure ntfs-eg and ntfsprogs were installed prior to this attempt? (you didn't say, and since it's important, thought it not unreasonabke to ask.) > > %grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > Generating grub configuration file ... > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64 > Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-4.0.4-301.fc22.x86_64.img > Found linux image: > /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950 > Found initrd image: > /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-78fbe953ac7541f89d8b08858c868950.img > done > > billo > -- > 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 --------------------------------- -- 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
