On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 14:50 -0400, Joerg Lechner wrote: >> Hi, >> the system is an Acer Laptop E5-571G-50K9, UEFI, Windows 8.1 on the >> harddisk, F24 Desktop Alpha 1.7 on an usb flash medium. > > You should be able to boot Windows from the UEFI boot menu, at least, > assuming the firmware lets you get at it somehow. I'm not sure if that > error is the known one Chris mentioned, which occurs when the Windows > install is Secure Boot-enabled (we can't successfully chainload Secure > Boot-ed Windows ATM). Yes. The problem with the boot menu approach is that there are firmwares out there that don't offer a menu or initialize USB at all by default. You have to boot and then from user space alter NVRAM to get it to boot to the firmware's boot manager and how to do that isn't obvious at all. So... kinda icky to not have Secure Boot. But it's a problem for Ubuntu also. Right now I'm only aware of openSUSE with GRUB patches to support Secure Boot chainloading. -- Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
