Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-31 Thread Tim via users
Matthew Saltzman: > > > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > > > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > > > installations from booting. Tim: > > Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet > > another) security flaw? > >

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Dave Close
Tim via users wrote: >> Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent >> vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) >> installations from booting. >Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet >another) security flaw? > >Perhaps they sho

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Tim via users
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 12:53 +, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > Microsoft's August security update included a patch to prevent > vulnerable GRUB2 (susceptible to bypassing UEFI secure boot) > installations from booting. Hmm, would they prevent their own system from booting if it had (yet another) se

Re: Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Barry Scott
te-breaking-linux-dualboot-fix > > The update was supposed to not install on already-configured dual boot > systems, but that apparently failed, so lots of dual-boot systems had > their Linux boot blocked after the update. > > I wondered if up-to-date Fedora users were affected

Dual boot failure after Windows update?

2024-08-30 Thread Matthew Saltzman
gured dual boot systems, but that apparently failed, so lots of dual-boot systems had their Linux boot blocked after the update. I wondered if up-to-date Fedora users were affected by this issue. Would like to know before I apply Windows updates whether I will need to deal with it. TIA for any inform

F40 dual-boot problem, was Re: What is Castor ? Att.Jonathan Billings.

2024-05-09 Thread John Pilkington
470xx builds of the nvidia legacy drivers.   Now the dual-boot box has no nvidia or nouveau rpms installed  (rpm -qa) although I suppose bits of config might remain;  inxi still finds nvidia traces: Nouveau is included with the kernel, it doesn't have its own package. xorg-x11-drv-nouve

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Samuel Sieb wrote: Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. In my experiencem, external drives come before internal drives anyway. I've been bitten by this. -- Michael

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Felix Miata
George N. White III composed on 2023-12-07 19:38 (UTC-0400): > Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you >> can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. > F12 on my Dell systems. On my desktop the monitor is slow to

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 6:22 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Usually there's a key you can press to get a boot selection menu so you > can one-time boot from the USB without having to change the boot order. > F12 on my Dell systems. On my desktop the monitor is slow to start (using a cheap USBC to HDM

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/7/23 13:39, Tim Evans wrote: o    Go into the PC BIOS and disable "Secure Boot." (Apparently, there is a workaround that allows you to skip this, but I didn't explore it.) Did you try without doing this? It should just work. o    While in the BIOS, change the boot device order to put yo

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Peter Boy
> Am 07.12.2023 um 22:39 schrieb Tim Evans : > > Closing the loop on this. Thanks to everyone who replied. This turned out to > be fairly simple, and everyone who replied had something good to add. Hi Tim and all participants here, This thread is a permanent and recurring topic. Wouldn't it

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-07 Thread Tim Evans
On 12/2/23 15:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 8:35 AM Neal Becker wrote: > > About 1 yr back I installed fedora onto my wife's dell laptop with windows > 10 for > dual boot. Despite significant and lengthy efforts to follow online guides > to get > windows to free up space I never got that

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread Neal Becker
It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and >> Windows. >> >> I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows >> partition to make space for Fedora, but am unsure of the process for >> current PC BIOS and grub setup for dua

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-03 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM Tim Evans wrote: > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo > T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. &

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2023-12-02 13:04 (UTC-0800): Tim Evans wrote: >> Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo >> T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) >> It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Samuel Sieb said: > On 12/2/23 13:02, Chris Adams wrote: > >Also, after installing Fedora (which made GRUB the default UEFI boot > >option), booting Windows from GRUB gave an error because of the > >Bitlocker disk encryption and measured boot. I had to enter the key > >(logged i

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/2/23 13:02, Chris Adams wrote: Also, after installing Fedora (which made GRUB the default UEFI boot option), booting Windows from GRUB gave an error because of the Bitlocker disk encryption and measured boot. I had to enter the key (logged in to my mandatory MS account to get it, I think y

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/2/23 12:48, Tim Evans wrote: Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530.  (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Tim Evans said: > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable > Lenovo T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug > around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. > > I&#

Re: Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo > T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) > > It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. > > I'm sure I can figure out how to

Modern Dual-Boot Setup Prcoedure (Dell XPS)

2023-12-02 Thread Tim Evans
Brand New Dell XPS 15 coming tomorrow, to replace my venerable Lenovo T530. (Looking forward to something a little lighter to lug around.) It's been 10 years since I set the T530 up to dual-boot Fedora and Windows. I'm sure I can figure out how to reduce the size of the Windows pa

Re: Installing dual-boot - SOLVED

2022-01-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 17:50 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 12:24 -0500, Lester Petrie wrote: > > > Thanks. I did manage to boot Fedora by pressing the hotkey on > > > restart. > > > I really just want to add Windows as an option in the Grub menu > > > so > > > I > > > don

Re: Installing dual-boot

2022-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 12:24 -0500, Lester Petrie wrote: > > Thanks. I did manage to boot Fedora by pressing the hotkey on > > restart. > > I really just want to add Windows as an option in the Grub menu so > > I > > don't have to do this. I'll look at efibootmgr. > > -- > > If you can get into Fed

Re: Installing dual-boot

2022-01-15 Thread Lester Petrie
On 1/15/2022 8:33 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 07:52 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Jan 15, 2022, at 07:25, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have a laptop as a secondary machine, using F35. I've reluctantly had to install Windows 10 on another partition, and of course

Re: Installing dual-boot

2022-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2022-01-15 at 07:52 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Jan 15, 2022, at 07:25, Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > I have a laptop as a secondary machine, using F35. I've > > reluctantly had > > to install Windows 10 on another partition, and of course Windows > > has > > stamped all

Re: Installing dual-boot

2022-01-15 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 15, 2022, at 07:25, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have a laptop as a secondary machine, using F35. I've reluctantly had > to install Windows 10 on another partition, and of course Windows has > stamped all over the boot block in its usual arrogant way so I can no > longer access my Fed

Installing dual-boot

2022-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
I have a laptop as a secondary machine, using F35. I've reluctantly had to install Windows 10 on another partition, and of course Windows has stamped all over the boot block in its usual arrogant way so I can no longer access my Fedora installation (though it's still there). What's the quickest wa

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-10 Thread sean darcy
On 5/9/20 9:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/9/20 3:38 PM, sean darcy wrote: And it works. I can now dual boot, and Windows is a LOT faster. Oh, the irony... Absolutely. Why in the world would Dell sell an nvme laptop provisioned with RST

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/9/20 3:38 PM, sean darcy wrote: And it works. I can now dual boot, and Windows is a LOT faster. Oh, the irony... ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-09 Thread sean darcy
e. So somebody has found a a way to switch from the RST driver to using AHCI. https://support.thinkcritical.com/kb/articles/switch-windows-10-from-raid-ide-to-ahci And it works. I can now dual boot, and Windows is a LOT faster. sean ___ users mailing

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-09 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via users
A59-AF35-48EB-AD4F-0B2966DD92F5 > > > > > > Device StartEndSectors Size Type > > > > /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System > > > > /dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft >

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-09 Thread sean darcy
indows + Fedora dual boot. When installed, your second NVMe drive should be partitioned something like this: # fdisk -l /dev/nvme1n1 Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 1.88 TiB, 2048408248320 bytes, 4000797360 sectors Disk model: SAMSUNG MZVLB2T0HMLB-000L7 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (l

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-08 Thread Robert G (Doc) Savage via users
67295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved/dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 3998748671 3998181376 1.9T Microsoft basic data/dev/nvme0n1p4 3998748672 40007966712048000 1000M Windows recovery environment This frees /dev/nvme1n1 for a normal installation from a live CD image. It will set up GRUB2 for a

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/7/20 7:49 AM, sean darcy wrote: 1. Is there a way to get the FC31 drive to boot with RST ? No.  RST is unsafe by design, and the kernel developers won't support it. * No NVMe device power management * No NVMe reset support * No NVMe quirks based on PCI ID * No SR-IOV VFs * Reduced p

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/7/20 7:49 AM, sean darcy wrote: My new laptop has Windows 10 installed with the Intel rapid Storage Technology  (optane) system chip. Windows is on an nvme drive. FC31 is on a SATA ssd. I thought RST was where it used a small SSD as caching for a regular spinning hard drive. The few t

Re: How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-08 Thread sean darcy
On 5/7/20 10:49 AM, sean darcy wrote: My new laptop has Windows 10 installed with the Intel rapid Storage Technology  (optane) system chip. Windows is on an nvme drive. FC31 is on a SATA ssd. BIOS allows me to choose AHCI or RST. I must use AHCI to boot the FC31 drive, and RST to boot the Wi

How do you Dual boot with Intel RST - Optane ?

2020-05-07 Thread sean darcy
My new laptop has Windows 10 installed with the Intel rapid Storage Technology (optane) system chip. Windows is on an nvme drive. FC31 is on a SATA ssd. BIOS allows me to choose AHCI or RST. I must use AHCI to boot the FC31 drive, and RST to boot the Windows drive. Neither will boot with the

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

2020-01-13 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 02:52, linux guy 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

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

2020-01-12 Thread linux guy
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

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Solved the authentication issue. It was SELinux related. This was the best system transfer that I have ever done. Really happy with how it turned out - everything transferred over and works out of the box on the new machine. I'm totally impressed. Would 10/10 would do it this way again. I'll

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Aside from an Authentication issue, this worked really well. I'll post it up as soon as I get the issues resolved. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
So which directories do I need to sync ? bin - link that points to /usr/bin boot - going to try NOT copying it. dev - no, the system generates this at boot etc - yes home - yes lib - link that points to /usr/lib lib64 - link that points to /usr/lib64 lost+found - no media - no mount - no opt ? pr

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
BTW, you might want to check the speed of the network interfaces and router being used.I was seeing very slow file transfer speeds with rsync (hint: use --progress).When I investigated I found that the speed limit on the wired network interface on my current computer was set to 100 Mb/sec.

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread linux guy
Thanks, guys. rsync is running right now. I'll let you know how I make out. I'll post when I find something that works. LG ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedo

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:59:15 -0700 linux guy wrote: > rsync over the > network while running the new computer off a USB drive ? Rsync works OK, but you need to run both systems off a live USB so the real disks aren't being touched while being copied. Then you'll need to chroot into the new system

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-08 Thread sixpack13
On 09.01.20 01:59, linux guy wrote: Hi people. A bit of a wrinkle in the plans... still need to transfer the operating system though. The deal to buy the used computer fell through.  It wasn't what I wanted anyway. So I purchased and assembled a new machine.  I will not be installing Window

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-08 Thread linux guy
Hi people. A bit of a wrinkle in the plans... still need to transfer the operating system though. The deal to buy the used computer fell through. It wasn't what I wanted anyway. So I purchased and assembled a new machine. I will not be installing Windows on it. Here is the problem... my old op

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 1/6/20 1:35 PM, linux guy wrote: Hi people. I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow.  The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it.  I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:51:27 -0700 linux guy wrote: > Rsync everything ? *Everything* ? Would that work ? I install new releases of fedora by installing in a virtual machine, then rsyncing that to a real partition and editing fstab, grub.cfg, and the grub environment file to change all the UUIDs

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
tle experience with LVM, I'll leave it to someone else to say if there's any other config that will need tweaking. I believe if you free up more space than necessary, you should be able to resize the volumes to give Fedora more space. How does one set up grub for dual boot after th

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4defaults1 2 /dev/mapper/fedora-swap swapswapdefaults0 0 How does one set up grub for dual boot after the fact, if you don't do a minimal install ? Or is that what you are suggesting ? FWIW, just look

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/6/20 10:35 AM, linux guy wrote: I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow.  The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it.  I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
I want to keep my old computer fully functional as a backup. Thus I'd like to leave the existing drive in it. It would be super easy to clone my existing drive with dd if it wasn't for the Windows install. Do a minimal install, dd the Linux stuff and then somehow fix the boot entries ? On Mon,

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread sixpack13
On 06.01.20 19:35, linux guy wrote: Hi people. I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow.  The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it.  I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the reply. Rsync everything ? *Everything* ? Would that work ? I was thinking of doing a minimal install and then obtaining the list of packages from my old workstation and running dnf with that list. Then copying all the user data over from /home. I'd still lose some settings thou

Re: Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 11:35:19 -0700 linux guy wrote: > I don't want to start over building > my workstation installation from a fresh install. Probably worth taking this with a large grain of salt, but I'd consider doing a minimal new fedora install on the new box, then rsync old fedora over the to

Transfer my current Linux install to a new dual boot drive with Windows ?

2020-01-06 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm about to purchase a new workstation computer because my current workstation is too slow. The new computer comes with Windows 10 installed on it. I rarely use Windows, but occasionally it comes in handy to troubleshoot something, so I'd like to leave it on the hard drive. Question

Re: (fedora) Re: Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540

2019-11-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/4/19 2:41 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: sam...@sieb.net wrote on 31-OCT-2019 22:45:56.20 On 10/31/19 3:27 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: I tried to make from my Dell lattitude E5540 running windows 10 a dual boot with F31. Intallation of F31 runned as expected apart form one point: I made a custom

Re: (fedora) Re: Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540

2019-11-04 Thread Jouk Jansen
sam...@sieb.net wrote on 31-OCT-2019 22:45:56.20 >On 10/31/19 3:27 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: >> I tried to make from my Dell lattitude E5540 running windows 10 a dual boot >> with F31. Intallation of F31 runned as expected apart form one point: I made >> a custom partion layout

Re: Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540

2019-10-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/31/19 3:27 AM, Jouk Jansen wrote: I tried to make from my Dell lattitude E5540 running windows 10 a dual boot with F31. Intallation of F31 runned as expected apart form one point: I made a custom partion layout of the free space and it compalined that my BIOS needed a small biosboot

Re: Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540

2019-10-31 Thread ivan 8
https://youtu.be/vXMNyiEgD6o Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> From: Jouk Jansen Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:27:25 AM To: USERS@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540 Hi All, I tr

Failed to create a dual boot F31 windows 10 on Dell E5540

2019-10-31 Thread Jouk Jansen
Hi All, I tried to make from my Dell lattitude E5540 running windows 10 a dual boot with F31. Intallation of F31 runned as expected apart form one point: I made a custom partion layout of the free space and it compalined that my BIOS needed a small biosboot partition (so I also created that one

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-12 Thread sixpack13
regarding Samsung - and I guess other vendors too - in the recovery partition resides a disk image (like dd..., or the like tools) from /dev/nvme0n1p1 up to p3 with that image you are able to reset the laptop to a state before first use in few minutes, so I guess it's different to an usb recove

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-12 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
n > > "recognized" by the installer to be managed by grub in the latest > stage > > see eg here: > > > http://linuxbsdos.com/2016/12/01/dual-boot-fedora-25-windows-10-on-a-computer-with-uefi-firmware/ > > You probably need to manually assign that partition t

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/10/19 12:39 PM, sixpack13 wrote: is this the same as what's in the recovery partition, *the complete configured Win-Installation* (with all vendor driver's/settings and the bloatware, too) ? I've never figured out how to use that partition, but I think that when using the recovery USB,

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
t had been "recognized" by the installer to be managed by grub in the latest stage see eg here: http://linuxbsdos.com/2016/12/01/dual-boot-fedora-25-windows-10-on-a-computer-with-uefi-firmware/ You probably need to manually assign that partition to /boot/efi. Make sure it'

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11May2019 00:38, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 6:57 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: That's correct. (I assume you mean the 475GB partition though.) Usually you will also want a /home partition as well. [...] Despite suggestions I plan to create only the partition for "/" and a swa

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
up, while in several links (regarding older Fedora versions) it was in the upper part too as if it had been "recognized" by the installer to be managed by grub in the latest stage see eg here: http://linuxbsdos.com/2016/12/01/dual-boot-fedora-25-windows-10-on-a-computer-with-ue

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10May2019 18:36, sixpack13 wrote: [...] save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) I've been rather fond of the sfdisk command for saving layouts. (May not work with GPT partition tables, haven't tried that). It has the advantage (not necessarily relevant just here) that it can read its output

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:37 AM Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > It seems gparted doesn't work well with gpt and many advise to use > gdisk/sgdisk utilities instead, if I have understood correctly gparted uses parted, and parted has supported GPT for a long time. Whereas gdisk/sgdisk are much more use

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread sixpack13
is this the same as what's in the recovery partition, *the complete configured Win-Installation* (with all vendor driver's/settings and the bloatware, too) ? don't know, my experiences are somewhat aged and only from win7 netbooks (Samsung). ___ users

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Dave Ihnat
On 10 May at 13:43, Samuel Sieb wrote: > The easiest method is to use the Windows recovery option to create a > recovery image on a USB drive. You should do that, of course, but by the time it's ready to move on and maybe become Windows again, that's going to be on VERY old image. At the time yo

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/10/19 11:36 AM, sixpack13 wrote: you should backup /dev/nvme0n1p4 (Windows recovery), save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) and maybe save your boot sector too (don't know if this relevant for UEFI) esp. if you got a function key (F2, F?, ..) during boot to recover you disk/windows. think

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread sixpack13
you should backup /dev/nvme0n1p4 (Windows recovery), save the disk layout (fdisk -l...) and maybe save your boot sector too (don't know if this relevant for UEFI) esp. if you got a function key (F2, F?, ..) during boot to recover you disk/windows. think of the case if you want to sell the lapto

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 5/10/19 1:37 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: I have doubt about numbering, because p3 will become smaller and if I create in the middle of p3 and p4 two more partitions, what will happen? The new partitions can be called p5 and p6 even if placed between p3 and p4. As far as you don't get confus

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
it says that it would be able to shrink from about half the size at about 242000 MBytes... You can try, but I find it doesn't work as well as gparted. Just make sure you backup anything important from the Windows side. In the very many dual-boot installs I've done, I've only

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-10 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 2:59 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/9/19 3:35 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install > > fedora 30 too. > > > /dev/nvme0n1p3567296 998574734 998007439 475.9G Microsoft basic data > > /dev/nvme0n1p4

Re: how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/9/19 3:35 PM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: Hello, I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install fedora 30 too. Current layout of partitions on disk is this one, if I start from an usb live: Device             Start        End   Sectors   Size Type /dev/nvme0n1p1      204

how to have dual boot on new laptop

2019-05-09 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
Hello, I have a laptop with preinstalled Win10 where I want to side install fedora 30 too. Current layout of partitions on disk is this one, if I start from an usb live: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Tip: dual boot off of gpt , and legacy and UEFI

2019-02-15 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
OH HOLY [expletive deleted]!!! I can't believe figured this out UEFI.BIOS.Dual.Boot.txt: References that stink: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=223015 https://bl.ocks.org/gdamjan/05b799162e4b3e97a30d37a89fed0fa8 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/configure-grub-to-boot-l

Re: Cannot boot windows dual boot -- is this a grub issue?

2019-01-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/3/19 10:41 AM, William Oliver wrote: 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 ha

[Solved]Re: Cannot boot windows dual boot -- is this a grub issue?

2019-01-03 Thread William Oliver
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

Cannot boot windows dual boot -- is this a grub issue?

2019-01-03 Thread William Oliver
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. T

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/08/2018 11:06 PM, peterlesterh...@telfort.nl wrote: So If I reinstall the way you suggest, and choose the HDD-disk as the boot drive, can I still go on with " custom" installation an put / on the SSD? And shall I still have the advantage of a fast boot? No, do the partitions the same wa

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-08 Thread peterlesterh...@telfort.nl
I assume you've verified that the SSD has a GPT partition table. Yes, I did. Honestly, the easiest way to find out is start over, go to custom partitioning, clock on the blue link to create partitions automatically, and see what it chooses for /boot/efi. I did this. I chose the SSD-disk, which cont

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/08/2018 07:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb > > wrote: >> It's not about where / or /boot are. It's about where it expects the >> system to boot from. It's the sa

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/08/2018 07:14 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb > wrote: It's not about where / or /boot are.  It's about where it expects the system to boot from.  It's the same as where to put GRUB on a non-UEFI system. That's even mor

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 11:05 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/07/2018 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > That's such a goofy bug. It'd be fine to warn the user that /boot/efi > > is somewhere other than either /boot or / - just let them know the > > system won't boot if a device containing any of /bo

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/07/2018 10:00 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: That's such a goofy bug. It'd be fine to warn the user that /boot/efi is somewhere other than either /boot or / - just let them know the system won't boot if a device containing any of /boot/efi /boot or / are missing (which should be obvious but I'll

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:19 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/07/2018 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> >> On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: >>> >>> I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation >>> screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the righ

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/07/2018 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the right side of the screen. At first this seems to work, because this appea

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-07 Thread Chris Murphy
I'm suspicious the installer wants /boot/efi on the same drive as / And if so it's a bug, but I can't remember if this ever got fixed yet. Also, the only thing that cares about two EFI System partitions, is there Windows installer. And only if there are two on one drive. One each on two drives is

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/05/2018 09:28 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: I select the (Windows) /boot/efi partition in Anaconda installation screen and fill in "/boot/efi" in de mount-point window in the right side of the screen. At first this seems to work, because this appears under "New Fedora 28 installation" (left

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-05 Thread Peter Lesterhuis
On 06/03/2018 10:21 AM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: ... Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. ...

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/04/2018 02:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 16:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-04 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Only if you mount it with the right options. >> If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have >> a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. Samuel Sieb: > Ok, I didn't think I needed to spell it out. By default, Fedora > configures /tmp as a tmpfs filesys

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 16:41 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > > > Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. > > > > Only if you mount it with the right options. > > > > If

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 06/03/2018 04:37 PM, Tim via users wrote: Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it with the right options. If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a /tmp direct

Re: dual boot Windows10 fedora28

2018-06-03 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 3 June 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Remember that /tmp does not use disk space. It's a RAM filesystem. Only if you mount it with the right options. If you mount it with other options, or don't mount it and just have a /tmp directory, it's going to be normal filesystem. -- [

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