On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 01:35:18 -0000 "William Mattison" <mattison.computer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (replying to all three messages) > > When I boot, the bios display says it is UEFI. Am I > mis-understanding what that means? Am I mis-using the term? Your system supports efi, but it seems you aren't using it. > > My /boot directory has only two sub-directories: "grub" and "grub2", > no sub-directory "efi". Not sure why this is. The fact that you have a grub directory implies to me that you have been upgrading this system for a while. I don't have a grub directory in /boot, since it is legacy and deprecated. > Each of the two sub-directories has a file called "grub.cfg". The > two files are identical, except for permissions. > > In /etc/fstab, the UUIDs are already correct, based on output by both > the blkid command and the lsblk command (which blkid's man page says > I really should use instead). Confirming Joe's comment. > I tried the grub2-mkconfig command in both sub-directories. Then I > rebooted. The new menu has Fedora, other Fedora options, Windows 7 > (on /dev/sda1), and Windows 7 (on /dev/sda2). Each option appears to > boot up correctly, though I did not attempt to actually log in to a > windows account. It appears to have worked. > Why are there two menu entries for windows? On this system, sda1 is > the master boot record, sda2 is the windows partition. I don't think the MBR is given a partition assignment. I don't run windows, so I'm unfamiliar with how it is organized, but I seem to recall reading that it can have a backup partition, so one of them might be that. > > After signing in to Fedora, I get a crash message saying vmlinuz > crashed. I couldn't catch the whole message. Yet the system does > seem to work. What's going on? Try reinstalling the latest kernel, or booting an older kernel. Are there any other messages that would indicate the problem in journalctl -b? It seems that the kernel is having a problem, but it is not fatal. Something misconfigured? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
