I dual boot windows 10 and fedora. fedora is working properly but when I want to use the windows, it shows error
Error: grub-core/disk/1386/pc/biosdisk.c:419:hd1 cannot get C/H/S values.
Error: grub-core/loader/1386/pc/linux.c:413:you need to load the kernel first.
press any key to continue.
when I press a key it directed me back to the OS menu to select windows or fedora. can someone help we this error, I m new to fedora
You can try doing grub-update from fedora terminal and the boot Windows
How to grub update from fedora terminal and the BOOT WINDOWS. PLEASE TELL ME
Hi @yuval welcome to the community
Could you post back the output of this commands. You just only need open the terminal and paste these.
1. To know a bit about your filesystem and your partitions
lsblk -f
sudo fdisk -l
2. To know if you have one UEFI install of fedora
ls /sys/firmware/efi
3. To know a bit more about your efi partition (in case of EFI install) and to see if Windows in in the same place
sudo ls /boot/efi/EFI
4. To see boot entries in case of UEFI install
efibootmgr -v
Once provide this information the members of forum will have a better way to help you with the issue.
Regards.
the last one
now please help me someone
Okej the problem is that you did a installation of fedora in mode legacy in place of UEFI mode and it is not leaving you start windows from grub entry because windows was installed in UEFI mode. But it has solution. I will can help you a bit but i am out of access to one pc right now. But while you can looking for it in the option of search in the forum where you will find information about this.
Regards
Ok the first one thing that you will need is patience. If you did a backup of your personal files or all that you did need before you did install fedora we can go to next step if no the first one is go into fedora and do a backup to one external disk of them, because you will can see them through linux.
Now I will explain 2 ways that would help you.
A) Change the boot option to windows in the BIOS
It is perhaps the easy way to go into windows again, you will need go into your BIOS and select/change (manually the entry) into the menu of boot options, you would see a entry called fedora and you need select this options and in the first place choose one called âwindows boot managerâ save the changes and reboot, if the entry was not damage you would boot in you windows system, if it did work just reboot again to check that this entry stay and you go direct to windows again out of problems. Once you checked that you can go in windows every time out of problems, you can just delete all fedora partitions and entries from windows too and so began with a clean install if you wish but always in mode UEFI. if the entry is damage or is not the right one you will can not boot and you will need change again it.
Note that i can not advice where this menu is in your BIOS because it is your BIOS and every BIOS is different but the options is there 100% because it is present in all of them. Maybe you need take time or google for it.
B) Installing Fedora in UEFI mode
You can install fedora in UEFI mode but you need select this option when you plug in the USB with fedora there would be a prefix called âUEFI: USB fedora âŠâ and other option without the prefix (the option without prefix will conform a legacy install like you did) it would be due at your BIOS in the UEFI options has selected the option compatibility so called LEGACY+UEFI so that one can choose that type of installation do.
So you can delete your fedora preview install in mode legacy and replace it for UEFI mode but you will need also disable Secure Boot in your BIOS options related with security to avoid problems with multiple entries created after every reboot or others issues and also is recommended disable fast boot if you wish have acces to write in your windows partitions. You can read about it in google.
Next I will leave you a bit of information from others post and links that you would read to understand more about it.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/force-fedora-legacy-bios-installation/73945
It is all than i can advice you here.
Regards.
Changing boot priority UEFI first to legacy gives same EFI and legacy information
And then pc restarts and this comes again and again
And then i changes boot mode to legacy then fedora runs not windows
Maybe windows entry is missing in some part
https://www.winhelp.co/knowledge-base/change-boot-menu-uefi-bios/
Try looking for boot order into configuration options, there would be something sure. It is a few thing i did find out but look around your Bios in the configuration stuff if you can change the boot order.
It is difficult to say and see
I know how to boot from usb, you want me to reinstall windows? What should i do after i boot through usb and go into windows boot manager. It says to reinstall windows and gives option either to install it again or repair your computer. If you want mento choose repair your computer then what should i do
Look this
Just recovery your windows with your windows media you will lose fedora entry but you can after install in right mode again. you donât need reinstall whole windows only recovery mode to repair entry. In the next reboot this would only boot into windows.
select the option startup repair like here â Windows 10 Won't Boot? Fix it with Startup Repair and BootRec Commands
Try first with this option.
Hi @yuval, I also had a lot of trouble with the UEFI vs Legacy boot during my installation (I had the opposite problem that you have, Windows was installed in Legacy and Linux in UEFI) and researching the web I found that everybody said combining these two is not a good idea.
I would recommend to leave Windows alone for the moment, and follow the instructions @xtym gave you at step B of Error on dual booting . By what I see you already know how to change your boot mode to âUEFI onlyâ in your Bios. After you do that, boot from the fedora USB (or other installation media), which should now boot in UEFI mode and reinstall Fedora (you can write over the old installation) and see what happens. With both systems installed in UEFI mode maybe GRUB will be able to find the windows installation and create a correct dual boot menu.
Only if this doesnât work, then you can look more into the recovery of the Windows softwareâŠ
All the best!
I have another question, can you access the files on your Windows drive from the Fedora installation or the live CD?
If you havenât done it already or donât know how to do it you can follow these simple steps:
If you can browse and open files you are good. If you canât, then maybe the hard disk has an encryption enabled and that will make it more complicated to have a dual boot.
well i reinstalled windows and fedora again and installd in uefi so both are working . thanks all of you for help
