On Sat, 30 May 2015, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 29 May 2015 at 13:54, Bill Oliver wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 29 May 2015 13:54:14 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com>
To: "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes(a)kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to: Community support for Fedora users
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Subject: Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of Fedora 22
> On Fri, 29 May 2015, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
>
>>> [snip]
>>
>> I was going to recommand the grub2-mkconfig, but you show it isn't finding
>> the windows?
>>
>> With my Fedora 21, I ran it with an strace to see what it was doing to find the
>> windows 7 that I have on machine. Seems it is the following.
>> /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
>>
>> The script seems to use os-prober to find the windows partitions.
>> So, see if os-prober reports that it finds any windows partitions.
>>
>> Not sure is 22 uses the same script, but you might try running it, and see if it
>> finds the windows partition.
>>
>> What does cat /proc/partitions show?
>
> Here it is:
>
> % more /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name
>
> 8 0 488386584 sda
> 8 1 665600 sda1
> 8 2 266240 sda2
> 8 3 131072 sda3
> 8 4 135359738 sda4
> 8 5 25876480 sda5
> 8 6 320636928 sda6
> 8 7 5443584 sda7
> 11 0 1048575 sr0
>
What do you get when you run os-prober and /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober??
Do you get nothing or an error?
What does blkid report.
[root@localhost oliver]# os-prober
<a couple seconds wait>
[root@localhost oliver]#
[root@localhost oliver]# /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober
[root@localhost oliver]#
[root@localhost oliver]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="WINRE" UUID="C0125289125283F6" TYPE="ntfs"
PARTLABEL="Basic data partition"
PARTUUID="5049eae8-8677-437b-b94c-e4b1beef7e11"
/dev/sda2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="efi" UUID="9AC3-5063"
TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition"
PARTUUID="1c7ee56b-2983-4f32-a96e-7cf9aa3233af"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Windows" UUID="9AAEDC99AEDC6EEF"
TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition"
PARTUUID="89988b85-0f51-4072-b87c-9faf6314be74"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="RECOVERY" UUID="6CE4E22AE4E1F5EC"
TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition"
PARTUUID="9a35b4bb-c899-4c66-98ad-56136f037766"
/dev/sda6: LABEL="root" UUID="9d7d5f49-6803-43e4-9920-130788991f5b"
TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a104a97d-d5a3-414d-9607-b1189d1fb3f9"
/dev/sda7: LABEL="swap" UUID="bb3f6351-ad6b-4c95-8c3a-64270fd01954"
TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="ee291490-853d-421a-9b8a-5f99d55c33c2"
/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition"
PARTUUID="24552e97-5182-4d3b-8900-065f02062b4c"
Is it possible that something was inadvertently reformatted, like the efi partition? If
that were the case, am I screwed?
billo