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Dual Boot With Windows

As of Fedora 41, /etc/default/grub has been removed. Consequently, we cannot modify the default GRUB settings and generate the config file in the usual way. According to discussions on the Fedora Forum, we must modify the config files in /boot/grub2 directly.

For example, to set a longer timeout, add the following line to /boot/grub2/user.cfg:

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set timeout=5

To add a Windows entry, add the following code to /boot/grub2/custom.cfg:

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menuentry 'Windows 11' {
    insmod part_gpt
    insmod fat
    search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root EFI_UUID
    chainloader /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
}

Replace EFI_UUID with the actual UUID found using blkid.

The difference between these two files is the order of execution: user.cfg runs first, while custom.cfg runs last.

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mv .cache/fontconfig .cache/fontconfig.save