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Subject:    Re: future of dual booting Windows and Fedora, redux
From:       Kamil Paral <kparal () redhat ! com>
Date:       2022-07-29 8:38:10
Message-ID: CA+cBOTdmL1i2A63Sy3sdKKdDxeYZUt+f4Hpbvq1cumCRmh-osg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 6:52 PM Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>
wrote:

> Short term approaches:
> 
> - Documentation: GRUB's Windows boot option may not work, how to use
> efibootmgr --bootnext and --bootorder
> 

Currently there is this (insufficient, of course):
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/windows-with-encrypted-disks-bitlocker-cant-be-booted-from-the-grub-boot-menu/20612


I'd like to see some proper guide available in Fedora Docs/Quick Docs/wiki
that I could reference from that Common Issue entry.


> In the near term, we're looking at an awareness and documentation effort,
> while seeing how the other options shake out. And it probably doesn't
> significantly matter whether we change the release criterion now or also
> wait a bit longer.
> 

We can change the criterion shortly before Final, if needed. Since we
expect the situation to improve in the future, we could just add a
(temporary) footnote to the existing criterion saying that the special case
of Windows partitions encrypted by Bitlocker are exempt from the
requirement (of booting Windows from GRUB).


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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul \
28, 2022 at 6:52 PM Chris Murphy &lt;<a \
href="mailto:lists@colorremedies.com">lists@colorremedies.com</a>&gt; \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Short term \
approaches:<br> <br>
- Documentation: GRUB&#39;s Windows boot option may not work, how to use efibootmgr \
--bootnext and --bootorder<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Currently there is \
this (insufficient, of course):</div><div><a \
href="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/windows-with-encrypted-disks-bitlocker-cant-be-b \
ooted-from-the-grub-boot-menu/20612">https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/windows-with-encr \
ypted-disks-bitlocker-cant-be-booted-from-the-grub-boot-menu/20612</a></div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;d \
like to see some proper guide available in Fedora Docs/Quick Docs/wiki that I could \
reference from that Common Issue entry.<br></div><div>  </div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid \
rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

In the near term, we&#39;re looking at an awareness and documentation effort, while \
seeing how the other options shake out. And it probably doesn&#39;t significantly \
matter whether we change the release criterion now or also wait a bit \
longer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We can change the criterion shortly \
before Final, if needed. Since we expect the situation to improve in the future, we \
could just add a (temporary) footnote to the existing criterion saying that the \
special case of Windows partitions encrypted by Bitlocker are exempt from the \
requirement (of booting Windows from GRUB).<br></div><div>  </div></div></div>


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