Hi, I currently have two installations of fedora on separate SSDs, but I can no longer boot into the original installation. I’ve tried a few online workarounds, but they haven’t worked. If its not possible to boot into the old installation it isn’t a massive issue because I still have all my files accessible, but I would like to import things like web data into the new installation. If anyone know any workarounds, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
How are you trying to boot into the other installation? Are you hitting the appropriate F (function) key such as F12, F8, etc. to bring up your UEFI one time boot menu and selecting the other SSD? What happens when you try to boot?
I use the UEFI and I have tried booting into different SSD’s directly. The issue might be that I also have the original windows that came with the laptop installed on a separate partition on the old drive, so when I select that drive to boot, it just goes straight to windows. Perhaps if I remove the windows installation it would be work?
You could try making a live USB of rEFInd (download this - Download refind-flashdrive-0.14.2.zip (rEFInd) - then extract the .img file from the archive and use Fedora Media Writer to write it to a USB).
Then if you boot from that USB, rEFInd should identify both your Fedora installations and allow you to boot into either of them.
If you only want to boot into your old install a few more times (in order to export data and so on), then this might be a more convenient solution than trying to fight with Windows and fix up the EFI partition on the old drive.
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gotcha, thanks! I will give this a try!
worked perfectly, thank you so much!
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