Dual boot Windows 8 and Fedora 19
Hello,
I recently bought the Acer Aspire V3-551G-X419 Laptop. It came pre-installed with Windows 8. I wanted to install Fedora 19 on it so i used Gparted live cd to resize my HDD and installed Fedora.
Now i'm unable to boot into windows though i can see all the files (from windows) if i mount the partition. Fedora works fine. I went trough the questions asked by multiple people in this site and tried out their solutions but it did not work for some reason.
Here is the output when i tried the blkid command -
[root@localhost ~]# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="Recovery" UUID="62E4BE43E4BE196D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="e0edaf2a-e155-475b-939a-4d4f0f198371"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="ESP" UUID="06C1-0984" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="d9fb699e-d959-4fb6-9f80-7787f16092ea"
/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="a2722a76-4210-4f2a-9ec9-f2d41fda7add"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Acer" UUID="C280C32980C32331" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="e1a35f53-db8e-4bdd-a20b-71b54d4af518"
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Push Button Reset" UUID="7090C60690C5D330" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="2ec2c0dc-de0a-40a1-8f3d-97229230509a"
/dev/sda6: PARTUUID="af87631d-83e2-4ce4-aec1-2659b3beaf90"
/dev/sda7: UUID="7b2d4eee-98d0-46c5-9424-9099b1a22746" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="eef4d615-e49e-4525-919a-9b272a3cd5dd"
/dev/sda8: UUID="iNXYDN-Lu9f-Bm3Y-t5ba-uq2C-i417-9OXKVI" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="e06a8bbd-1e08-4753-a0bd-674bcaa0d480"
/dev/sda9: LABEL="Extra" UUID="3C405D1172234D51" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="84d9ae70-783d-49d2-9a57-223ddd7bf70f"
/dev/mapper/fedora-root: UUID="0eb2c94d-d225-4435-ad4e-0fdb620ca0a6" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/fedora-swap: UUID="a0edf377-d8c5-4d23-aee5-52ab6718ad66" TYPE="swap"
/dev/mapper/fedora-home: UUID="30aa0096-746f-4c20-ad35-0e9017be888e" TYPE="ext4"
Please help! Also this is what i got when i tried the parted /dev/sda command -
Model: ATA WDC WD7500BPVT-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 420MB 419MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
2 420MB 735MB 315MB fat32 EFI system partition boot
3 735MB 869MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
4 869MB 54.6GB 53.7GB ntfs Basic data partition
6 54.6GB 54.6GB 1049kB bios_grub
7 54.6GB 55.1GB 524MB ext4
8 55.1GB 111GB 56.4GB lvm
9 111GB 733GB 622GB ntfs
5 733GB 750GB 16.8GB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
Here the 4th partition has my windows 8 installed on it.
tdl.ver713 ( 2013-09-20 03:45:59 +0000 )editI did all the steps except - grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg this shows the error "No such file or directory". What path should i entering here? The path to the grub.cfg file? For me it would be /boot/grub2/grub.cfg - is this what i should be entering?
tdl.ver713 ( 2013-09-20 05:55:16 +0000 )editmount /dev/sda2 /boot/efi and try again the same command if it still return error try with grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
gaurav9 ( 2013-09-20 08:16:37 +0000 )editDidn't work, it did create the grub.cfg file but it contains entries only for Fedora. Windows does not show up.
tdl.ver713 ( 2013-09-20 14:27:31 +0000 )edit