Dear Madam / Sir,
Just to share about the issue I faced while Fedora 31 / 32
installation and dual boot with Windows-10.
I purchased a new Dell Laptop
(Vostro-3580, i5, 8th Gen.) which has Windows-10 preinstalled, but I wanted to
make it dual boot. The system was UEFI hence trying to dual Boot - Fedora-31 and Windows-10.
For all my Earlier Dell laptops, and all versions of Fedora, I had a great and
smooth experience of dual boot / single boot experience with the Legacy BIOS.
But now I purchased a new Dell-Vostro-3580, which has ONLY UEFI firmware
to
boot the laptop and this is the actual Problem, while another issue was
that it gives me error and unable to boot into the rescue mode from the
grub menu options.
I had installed Fedora-31 for almost 20 times (one time Fedora-32 also) including various options of
remaking USB installation media through unetbootin/rufus etc. then also
troubleshooting and reinstalling grub through rescue mode(using live usb pen drive) chroot... but all
remains the temporary solutions.
This compelled me to read the installation of Fedora-31.... and I found this
....
"" Fedora does not support UEFI booting for 32-bit x86 systems. Only BIOS boot is
supported on these systems.
Also note that Fedora only fully supports version 2.2 of the UEFI
specification. Hardware that supports version 2.3 or later will boot and work
normally, but the additional functionality defined by these later
specifications will not be available. The UEFI specifications are available
from https://www.uefi.org/specs/agreement/."" found at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/install-guide/install/Booting_the_Installation/
The problem I faced, was UEFI (above laptop came with version 1.4) does not remember the partition/location of the
boot file of Fedora only, while the grub loads and very well boots into
Windows-10 through the option from the grub menu and HANGS if I opt for Fedora-31
from the grub option menu.
Finally
after a lot of experiments and reading I found that UPGRADE the UEFI
firmware reading somewhere on the net and voila.. now all is fixed !!
Though
it was very very UNFORTUNATE that
Dell provided(on Dell website) the upgrade for this new(for me atleast)
laptop with a UEFI
version - 1.9 (11.03.2020). Just to mention that POOR RESPONSE from Dell
Customer Service and NO EMAIL ID available to send email to them !!!
The other issue I found was the rescue mode is giving me ERROR, and to address it finally I found that the file rescue in /boot/loader/entry is missing the correct parameter, hence I appended "/boot" and it worked.
Just thought to share with you people in case someone could get benefitted from my experiences :
1)Dell should have PROVIDED SUPPORT for older UEFI, or leagcy BIOS or Dell People(Worst
People and POOREST CUSTOMER SUPPORT) had provided the latest UEFI
firmware(latest is Version 2.8, and approved in March 2019 by UEFI).
2) Fedora people may correct the parameter setting for RESCUE boot. For ready reference I am providing the content of the rescue file before and after the correction.
[root@localhost entries]# pwd
/boot/loader/entries
[root@localhost entries]# ls
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf 4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf.ORG
4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-5.3.7-301.fc31.x86_64.conf
[root@localhost entries]# cat 4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf.ORG
title Fedora (0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d) 31 (Thirty One)
version 0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
linux /vmlinuz-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
initrd /initramfs-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d.img
options $kernelopts
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel
[root@localhost entries]# cat 4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d-0-rescue.conf
title Fedora (0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d) 31 (Thirty One)
version 0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
linux /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d
initrd /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-4c547532c2394079bb6f59b48cb1073d.img
options $kernelopts
grub_users $grub_users
grub_arg --unrestricted
grub_class kernel
regards,
Bimal Kumar
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