On Jan 15, 2014, at 8:38 PM, Richard Vickery <r...@sfu.ca> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Quicksort" <quicks...@orange.fr> > To: "Fedora users list support for Fedora users" > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 15 January, 2014 16:40:11 > Subject: Fedora - Windows 8/8.1 dual boot > > > > > > Has anyone successfully installed Fedora 18, 19 or 20 in dual boot with > Windows 8/8.1 ? > How does the installation process differ from setting up a Fedora/Windows 7 > or XP dual boot ? > Are there pitfalls one should know about ? > -- > > I haven't personally used Windows 8/8.1, but after a friend's experience with > it, and subsequent erradification of this platform in favour of Fedora, many > knowing the choice would want to stay as far away from 8x as possible.
The main issue is if pre-loaded it comes with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. Fedora supports this out of the box. It can also be disabled. Some things that might come up whether it's enabled or not: 1. No more MBR, primary or extended partitions. Windows on UEFI requires GPT so that's what Fedora will continue to use. 2. Don't use grub2-install. The installer puts a prebaked grubx64.efi on the EFI System partition. It shouldn't be necessary to replace it although if grub2 is update, then the pieces on the ESP are also updated. 3. In the unlikely event you need grub.cfg recreated the command is grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg 4. Most likely grub2-mkconfig / os-prober will not locate Windows, and will not create a grub boot menu entry for it. You'll need to figure out how to use the built-in EFI boot manager to choose between Windows and GRUB(Fedora). 5. There's a scant number of reports of install failures when the installer can't write the new boot entry to NVRAM. The resulting system is unfortunately not bootable, but with some effort can be made so. There's a thread on the test@ list about this. And also bug 1006304. That's all I'm thinking of at the moment. Chris Murphy -- 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
