potential issues: mbr uefi - many ways to solve none easy. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Kevin Cummings <cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net > wrote:
> On 01/14/16 22:19, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > My Classroom Lab at the College has Lenovo I7 computers that came with > > Windows 7 about 2 years ago. I changed them to dual boot with Fedora, and > > just recently upgraded them to Fedora 23. Never had any issues with the > > installation of the Fedora or doing updates. I wanted to check out the > > Windows 10 upgrade process on one machine, but have run into all kinds of > > issues. > > > > 1. Booting the Windows 7, the Windows 10 upgrade would just keep showing > > the option to request the upgrade and I would be notified. Never got any > > notification?? > > I upgraded both my wife's and my mother's computers to W10 for them > (both were windows only machines). As I recall, at the time, Microsoft > would "log" the update request, and feed the update to the computers > while they were running over a period of time (kings a long and slow > download to help spread the load on the Microsoft servers). So, > essentially, you'd have to boot W7, and leave it running until Microsoft > gets around to downloading the update to the machine. After that, > you'll get both an email and a notification that the upgrade is ready to > be run. You can then spend 1-2 hours waiting for the installation to > complete. Along the way, it will reboot 3-4 times, and it expects that > the reboot process will directly reboot windows to continue the upgrade. > > Based on that, you might want to disable the dual boot, upgrade windows, > then re-enable the dual boot. (At a bare minimum, you might be able to > change the Grub loader to default to Windows until the upgrade is > finished.) This assumes that Windows updates work in your dual boot > scenario without any problems, so the Windows upgrade should as well. > > > 2. When thru some web pages, and found a link that was upgrade now, and > > it seemed to down and go thru the process of getting the Windows 10 > files. > > Said it was going to reboot, and install. It rebooted, and still had the > grub > > menu, so selected the windows option, and it seemed to be doing > something, > > but then came up with an error message and said it could complete. Took > me > > to a web page, but of couse the error number wasn't anywhere to be found > > there or on a search. Just restored the W7 image, so dual boot process is > > fine. > > Sorry, I run any Winows images in VMs on my Linux machines. I don't do > dual boot anymore. And Microsoft won't upgrade my XP images to W10. B^) > > > Are there any tricks to getting the upgrade to work with a dual boot > setup. > > Don't know if the Windows 10 upgrade can not handle a grub boot loader > > setup? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Use Linux for all my courses, but other teachers sometimes need to do > > things on the windows, and wanted to at least take a look at it. > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor > > Guam Community College Computer Center > > mailto:mi...@kuentos.guam.net > > mailto:msetze...@gmail.com > > http://www.guam.net/home/mikes > > Guam - Where America's Day Begins > > G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) > > Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 > > Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes > > (Total Hours: 287,489) > > > > BOINC@HOME CREDITS > > hn+Ñ? | > > 0·Ñ? +r} > > | > > ¦ > > > > > > > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > kjch...@verizon.net > cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net > cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us > Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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