On Thu, 2019-01-03 at 12:44 -0500, William Oliver wrote:
I just installed Fedora29 on my brand new HP laptop. The
installation
went fine, and Fedora comes up fine. However, I was trying to
install
it as a dual boot machine, and the Windows option does not come up
either with a "normal" grub bootup or when I choose boot options in
BIOS.
THe box has hybrid drive -- 256G SSD and 1 TB regular. I'm
installing
everything on the SSD right now, and then will link out stuff or
repartition just a bit to move things to the 1 TB drive. But I
thought
I'd just stick to the SSD for installation to minimize hassles.
I didn't delete or overwrite the EFI partition, and /boot/efi has
what
appears to be old HP, Microsoft, and Boot directories in addition to
the new fedora directory.
The only thing that was unusual in this installation was that I got
the
warning that because I was using GPT, I had to create a 1 MB
bootsomethingsomething partition -- which I did.
So, now my drive looks like:
partition name fs mount sz flags
/dev/nvme0n1p1 EFI fat32 /boot/efi 260 MB boot,esp
/dev/nvme0n1p2 MS reserved unknown 16 MB msftres
/dev/nvme0n1p3 basic data ntfs 60 GB msftdata
/dev/nvme0n1p5 grub2.core.img 2 MB bios_grub
/dev/nvme0n1p6 lvm2 pv fedora 55.89 GB lvm
/dev/nvme0n1p4 basic data ntfs 980
MB hidden,diag
There's about 121 unallocated GB on the SSD, and the 1 TB drive isn't
mounted.
Eventually, this will be a triple boot system, with the other OS
being
qubesOS. However, I need a vanilla Fedora boot option because
qubesOS
won't support some graphics I need for some apps. But, I usually
install the Qubes stuff last, since it's such a joy.
So, I have two questions:
1) WHat is this 1 M bootsomethingsomething I had to make? It looks
like it turned into something called bios_grub. I've never had to do
this before.
2) Can someone point me to resources to learn how to troubleshoot
making grub see my Windows stuff? Or give me any ideas?
Thanks!
billo
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OK, my apologies to the list. I had managed somewhere in my poking
around to turn on legacy boot, and installed Fedora then. I noticed
that, disabled legacy boot (which then gave the very frightening
warning of "no operating system present"), and then re-installed
Fedora, and now both Windows and Fedora come up as options in the BIOS
boot options and both work.
So, here's an easier (I hope) question. I remember back in the day,
when I would power up my machine in dual boot mode, grub would give me
a grub menu that let me choose the OS. Now, it just comes up in
Windows. If I want to boot into Fedora, I have to get into BIOS boot
options and choose it there. It's not that big a deal, but it would be
easier not to have to start hammering on the escape key when I
reboot...
billo