Hello everyone, i want to question a fedora installation problem, i installed fedora kde dual booting with windows recently, and unlike other trys, this time it show the windows efi partition in the summery page even i don’t select it while mounting, and it did not do that before when i try to install it other times alongside with windows, i guessed the parition will not be touched, because i don’t select it, but after the installation it remove windows efi, and windows don’t show in boot menu, i just want to make sure why that happen?, and the fix
edit: i solve it using windows bootable usb, but i dont know the issue reason
When reporting an issue you need to provide enough detail to allow others to reproduce the issue. Please be more specific about the Fedora installer you used and the Windows version. Have you changed Windows default settings or UEFI settings?
i used the fedora kde latest version default installer, and i use the manual mounting method, the windows version is windows 10 22H2 , and i don’t change any windows or UEFI settings after installation.
That is where you can choose to wipe out the ESP (or format it), and if you do, then Windows is not bootable anymore. ESP is the file system you would mount on /boot/efi.
Yes i install clean windows 10 installition with full disk, than try to install fedora kde, first was an old windows installition, also maybe i disabled fast startup, but that before fedora kde installation.
Now i fix the windows but still not know why it deas that, because i could reinstall fedora kde and need to not get the same issue
Can you upgrade to Windows 11? Recent Linux installers may be better tested with Windows 11, and few users will be able to replicate your configuration in attempts to reproduce the issue. Try to stick with just the documented changes: disable Windows 11 Fast Startup and UEFI Fast Boot. Start with the default disk partitioning and format as most other users will have the same setup.
But many users have Fedora and Windows 10 coexisting fine.
W11 is a far worse user experience than W10, and we’ll hamper Fedora adoption if we tell users they have to switch from W10 to W11 in order to dual boot. MS’s attempts to enforce W11 are one of the best ways to recruit Linux users!
I creat a 461mb partition fat32, and check the “boot” flag in partition propriety from kde partition manger, i am not sure if that’s the way efi partition should be created but it continue, and i use a 100gb ext4 partition as / and the 461mb partition as the boot\efi, i remove also the boot partition third choise
I use the manuel mount option, that let you chose the partitions manually, not the option that share the disk with windows and partition automatically, and i chosen like i describe, i was just want to make sure from where the issue was, but if there is an option that partition automaticly and share disk with windows, i will use it, because i dont seen that option last time
Just out of curiosity and possibly to avert a reinstallation, does Windows show up at all in the UEFI boot options (accessed either via UEFI/BIOS or usually F12 spam on boot)? Because if it does, should it not be possible (for someone who knows how) to add a WIndows entry to Grub?
No it was not showing up at all even in bios
I already solve the windows problem, i was just looking for the reason and if there is a normal automatic partitioning to install it alongside with windows