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    Help! W230ss Flashed bios, now won't boot Fedora

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Impulss, Apr 8, 2015.

  1. Impulss

    Impulss Newbie

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    I had this little beast fully setup, I had fedora on the original first SSD, and windows on another SSD that I purchased (840 Evo's, both identical) both on UEFI. I decided to flash to prema mod, and now for whatever reason it will only boot into windows. I don't see an option anywhere to disable secure boot either.

    Within Bios -> boot -> UEFI Setting. I've fiddled with the settings in there and nothing seems to make a difference. It just goes straight into windows. Even though from as far as I could tell, all of the UEFI info was stored on the fedora SSD?

    When it was working fine, it would boot into GRUB and from there I would pick windows or fedora.

    Little lost with the whole thing and would love a little help. I like the mod and don't want to have to change back if I don't have to.

    Thanks!!
     
    Impulss, Apr 8, 2015
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  2. Ethrem

    Ethrem Notebook Prophet

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    Did you try switching the order of the boot drives? Sometimes UEFI boot partitions end up on both drives but only the drive with GRUB will boot Linux.

    Also make sure EFI setting is set to Others instead of Windows 8.
     
    Ethrem, Apr 8, 2015
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  3. Impulss

    Impulss Newbie

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    I have indeed. I set it up so only the linux SSD has the EFI partition. I can confirm this within windows disk management too.

    The only thing that's on the windows ssd is the C: partition.
     
    Impulss, Apr 9, 2015
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  4. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Are you able to boot to the Linux drive using the F7 boot selection menu, or even by physically removing the Windows SSD altogether?
     
    Prostar Computer, Apr 13, 2015
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