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Re: Converted MBR to GPT and menu is gone, can't use grub-reboot either


From: Pascal Hambourg
Subject: Re: Converted MBR to GPT and menu is gone, can't use grub-reboot either
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 13:42:56 +0100
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On 18/02/2023 at 11:45, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:

Not sure if this might be issue, but I ran into an issue
recently that had me very confused.

Nothing to be confused about in what you wrote.

Had a Dell computer with Windows 10
(cut irrelevant stuff)
decided to add Fedora 37 to
drive. Booted from the install usb (didn't realize it
booted from uefi), so when did the install it setup UEFI
installation on the free space of drive.

As expected. Didn't the Fedora installer warn about an existing OS using legacy boot and offer to switch to legacy install ? The Debian installer would have.

on reboot, it showed the Fedora 37, but no
reference to the windows 10?

As expected. An EFI boot loader cannot chainload a legacy boot loader.
If you want to boot Windows from GRUB, you need to install GRUB for legacy boot. Or convert Windows to GPT+UEFI, but that may ruin Fedora.

Have
been told the install looked at boot media type, and used
that??

The installer usually sets up the installed system to boot in the same mode as itself was booted.

So, don't know if you might have a disk with both legacy
and UEFI setup??

It is now rather common that GNU/Linux distribution installers can be booted in legacy and EFI modes.



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