Dual boot Windows 8 and Fedora 19

asked 2013-09-19 21:47:06 -0500

tdl.ver713
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updated 2013-09-20 00:45:16 -0500

FranciscoD_
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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

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Here the 4th partition has my windows 8 installed on it.

tdl.ver713 ( 2013-09-19 22:45:59 -0500 )edit

I 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 00:55:16 -0500 )edit

mount /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 03:16:37 -0500 )edit

Didn'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 09:27:31 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-09-19 22:43:57 -0500

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As you have UEFI setup for windows 8 .you have to search where your windows 8 bootmgr files stored . then disable Grub2 OS prober echo GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true >> /etc/default/grub

Establish the EFI boot partition holding the Windows boot manager and probe it for string hints search parameter (in my case it was: "/efi/Boot/bootx64.efi". I found lots of examples pointing to "/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi". Note that, in fedora, the command for this is grub2-probe. Many examples online had grub-probe. This was confusing at first.

grub2-probe --target=hints_string /efi/Boot/bootx64.efi

grub2-probe --target=hints_string /efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi

here your output will be 06C1-0984 as it is UUID of your EFI System Partition Create a custom menuentry for Win-8 UEFI-GPT system in "/etc/grub.d/40_custom" and add the results of the above command on the search line. It will look like the following:

menuentry "Microsoft Windows x86_64 UEFI-GPT" {
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
insmod search_fs_uuid
insmod chain
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 06C1-0984
chainloader /efi/Boot/bootx64.efi
}

menuentry "Microsoft Windows x86_64 UEFI-GPT" {
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
insmod search_fs_uuid
insmod chain
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 06C1-0984
chainloader /efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}

and then enter
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg