Sharing EFS / EFI partition between Windows 8 and Fedora 20
by Pedro Francisco
Hello!
I've installed Fedora 20 on a Asus N550jv with no apparent issues.
Thing is, I accepted Anaconda's suggestion of having two EFS / EFI
partition, one for Windows (left untouched) and other for Fedora.
It is done, installed but... sounds messy.
Questions:
1- What are the advantages of having two EFS / EFI partitions?
I know some UEFI allow for one boot entry only per partition, thus
forcing to choose between Windows or Linux and leaving one with no way
to boot again the other; is that the only advantage of having two EFS?
I also know Windows 7 installer seems to balk when it sees two EFS;
I'd venture a guess Windows 8 has fixed this, can anyone confirm?
2- Any quick way to test if it would break, on my particular machine,
to have just one EFS with both Windows and Linux EFI boot files? Maybe
add two similar Windows boot entries and see if one of them disappears
after I boot Windows?
Thanks in Advance!
--
Pedro
10 years, 6 months
Gnome 3 & Favourite programs.
by Bill Case
Hi;
In Gnome there used to be a facility for establishing your favourite
program for basic functions. Example, to call up a specific browser
when you clicked on a link.
I used to use Firefox as my main browser set to start on startup in its
own workspace. I would also choose "Web" (formerly Epiphany) as my
favourite so whenever I clicked a link not in Firefox, Web would open in
the workspace where I was working for a quick search.
How now in Gnome 3 can I set this favourite or preferred Browser to Web?
[P.S. I have never found a Gnome help site that actually answers
questions or gives help. I have used email and their forum without
every getting answers so I am try Fedora for information.]
--
Regards William Case,
Fedora 19, Gnome 3.8.4,
Evo 3.8.5, Emacs 24x.
10 years, 6 months
Fedora 19 screensaver
by Roger
Since updating last week the Fedora 19 screensaver is causing me grief.
I have it off and time delay set to never but it blanks the screen and
defaults to a time display after 30+ minutes , on any key press it gives
the login dialog which cannot be accessed either by tab key or mouse so
there is no way to log in.
Ctrl Alt F2 gives me a new user I log in as me and startx to bring up
gnome then shut down and restart.
Googling shows it's difficult to get rid of the screensaver.
That's half the problem and raises a peripheral question.
I am developing an app on Heroku. Have had access until Tuesday evening
at which time starting heroku produces 30 of the below errors. Same in
accessing Heroku logs.
Error: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server key
exchange B: EC lib (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) (Excon::Errors::SocketError)
Backtrace:
/home/Desktop/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/excon-0.16.10/lib/excon/ssl_socket.rb:60:in
`connect'
/home/Desktop/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/excon-0.16.10/lib/excon/ssl_socket.rb:60:in
`initialize'
/home/Desktop/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p0/gems/excon-0.16.10/lib/excon/connection.rb:364:in `new'
To the question:
Because access to desktop fails due to faulty screensaver, I did a Crtl
Alt F2 to a fresh login, startx to bring up the desktop.
In a terminal typed the commands to start heroku and got the above error/s.
Can it be that in starting a new login and desktop it messed up access
to ssh keys and could this be the cause of the heroku error regime.
If so what can be done to resolve the issue?
If not, what then? I have posted on Github as heroku requires.
I note on Github there are an increasing number of similar complaints
and google is rife with these also.
What's the difference if any between my pc's ssh keys and the rsa-keygen
keys? in the .ssh directory?
I generated a new rsa.pub key and entered that in Heroku but it did not
resolve the issue.
I'm most curious about this and how to guard against it for the future.
Thank you in advance
Roger
10 years, 6 months
Can yum resume??
by Beartooth
As I reported this morning, `yum --releasever=18 distro-sync'
told me when I got to it "killed." Just that (on a line by itself). No
hint of when, why, how, nor anything else. Can I get to start back up
from where it left off, instead of from the beginning?
The man page is not just hard to read (as usual) but downright
confusing. Should I try 'yum redo' or 'yum history redo'? Or maybe yum-
complete-transaction??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
10 years, 6 months
system question
by Richard Vickery
Hi Gang:
I called journalctl and got two lines that sparked a question:
Parsing /etc/bluetooth/input.conf failed: No such file or directory
Oct 17 15:17:36 localhost.localdomain bluetoothd[502]: Parsing
/etc/bluetooth/serial.conf failed: No such file or directory
Should I be creating a bluetooth directory and perhaps touching the files:
input.conf and serial.conf? I went ahead and created the directory, but I
have yet to create the files.
Thanks
Richard
10 years, 6 months
Lightning calendar warning
by SternData
If you are using Thunderbird from the Fedora repo but Lightning from
Mozilla, do not let Thunderbird upgrade the Lightning extension. It
requires 24.0.1 to work. The current Fedora version is at 24.0.
--
-- Steve
10 years, 6 months
emacspeak
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
Hi,
I am the current maintainer of the emacspeak package,
and have been for a long time. However I have never
really used the package so I don't know how well it works.
I have asked in the past on Fedora devel list if anyone wants to
take over the package from me but got no reply.
If you or someone you know uses emacspeak then please let me know.
Also if someone who is a packager is interested to take over
the package and maintain it that would be welcome.
It would be better to have someone who is able to
use the package to maintain.
Thanks, Jens
10 years, 6 months
New install, No Dual boot With Windows Vista
by Mickey
Fedora 18 new install.
Fedora didn't setup Windows Vista in boot Menu.
How do I get windows in Boot Menu.
Windows is still on Hard Drive at sda1 .
Below is /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
menuentry_id_option=""
fi
export menuentry_id_option
if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi
function savedefault {
if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
saved_entry="${chosen}"
save_env saved_entry
fi
}
function load_video {
if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
insmod all_video
else
insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod ieee1275_fb
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
fi
}
if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
fi
font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi
if loadfont $font ; then
set gfxmode=auto
load_video
insmod gfxterm
set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
set lang=en_US
insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
fi
insmod gfxmenu
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-10.pf2
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-12.pf2
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-Bold-14.pf2
loadfont ($root)/boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2
insmod png
set theme=($root)/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt
export theme
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora (3.11.4-101.fc18.i686)' --class fedora --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-simple-c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
fi
echo 'Loading Fedora (3.11.4-101.fc18.i686)'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.4-101.fc18.i686
root=UUID=c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0
rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet LANG=en_US.UTF-8
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.11.4-101.fc18.i686.img
}
menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class
os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-simple-c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.10-4.fc18.i686 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
root=UUID=c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0
rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686.img
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-advanced-c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9' {
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.6.10-4.fc18.i686' --class fedora
--class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686-advanced-c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9'
{
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
--hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2
--hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2 --hint='hd0,msdos2'
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.6.10-4.fc18.i686 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686
root=UUID=c96f7e74-f54e-4399-8956-202ea476ecd9 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0
rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 vconsole.keymap=us rhgb quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-3.6.10-4.fc18.i686.img
}
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_ppc_terminfo ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_ppc_terminfo ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry 'Windows Vista (loader) (on /dev/sda1)' --class windows
--class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-198AEF5376275C18' {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 --hint='hd0,msdos1'
198AEF5376275C18
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 198AEF5376275C18
fi
chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply
type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
10 years, 6 months