Re: Swapped a dual boot drive into another computer and it will only boot Windows ?

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 02:52, linux guy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have 2 computers, nearly identical, similar age.  AMI BIOS in both.

I swapped the M.SATA drives from each.   One drive has F31.  One has dual boot Windows 10 + F31.

The F31 alone hard drive boots and runs fine in the first computer.  So does the dual boot drive.   The dual boot hard drive will only boot Windows in the 2nd computer.  I can't get it to boot Fedora at all. 

Does one of the drives use GPT partitioning?

The BIOS settings appear to be identical.  The first computer that boots both drives fine has BIOS version F4.  I installed the lastest BIOS in the second computer that doesn't boot.  It is version F2, but a much later version.

I'm using legacy (compatibility, non efi ) mode.  The BIOS gives me 2 options:

P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA
Windows Boot Manager (P4: Samsung SSD 850 EVO mSATA) 

If I select the first option, the Linux boot partition the computer boots and displays: "Reboot and Selct proper Boot device or... "

I've checked fstab on both drives.  The UUIDs are correct and they are set up the same, except the dual boot drive has 2 extra entries for the Windows install.

Why won't the dual boot drive boot Fedora on the 2nd computer ?

A couple things to consider:

1) Windows 10 updates have been known to disable grub .   The Boot Repair CD
was worked for me.

2) Windows 10 "fast boot mode" should be disabled on dual boot configurations. This
is essentially hibernation and seems to bypass normal boot processing.  It also means
any changes to Windows filesystems from linux will be lost when Windows restarts.

--
George N. White III

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