Bug#698914: grub-efi booting Windows 8 in UEFI mode

Steve McIntyre steve at einval.com
Thu Apr 25 10:41:58 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:30:55AM +0200, Drasko DRASKOVIC wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>great work indeed, because I can confirm that everything works fine
>with new version on my machine (ASUS X201E notetbook) !

...

>It looked OK, and I rebooted PC. I could boot into the Windows 8
>without any problems. Then I booted back into Debian to write you this
>message ;).
>
>
>BTW, I tried also combination of new os-prober and old grub, and
>during grub-update a message is produced :
>...
>Found Windows Boot Manager on /dev/sda1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
>  Windows Boot Manager is not yet supported by grub-mkconfig.
>
>and no Windows menuentries are produced in /boot/grub/grub.cfg, as
>expected. So, this version matching detection and warning also works
>correctly.

Asweome - thanks for testing so quickly for me. :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
"C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone



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