On 09/29/2014 10:40 AM, Dan McGhee wrote:
On 09/29/2014 10:26 AM, William Immendorf wrote:
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Dan McGhee <[email protected]> wrote:
I upgraded (?) to Win 8.1 about a month ago. I thought it odd that I
couldn't get my Grub or gummiboot menu when I rebooted, but I
thought, "I
can fix it later." Just two days ago, and verified last night and this
morning, that Win 8.1, regardless of what one does to change the
boot order,
even installing distros like Ubuntu, et al, who have paid microsoft for
Secure Boot Keys, changes the boot order back to windows and boots
from an
internal windows image.
I've ran into this issue too on my Arch Linux/Windows 8.1 dual-boot.
However, I found a way to fix this.
In an administrator mode console on Windows, type in this command:
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\wherever_the\bootloader_is.efi
Of course, change the path to where the actual bootloader you are
using is. Reboot, and hopefully the proper bootloader menu shows up.
(Found this on Arch's wiki. Hope it helps)
I saw this too. The only negative side to it is, depending on what
somebody wants to do with their machine, efibootmgr becomes
irrelevant. In my mind, it just limits what I can do with my machine.
The real option, if it's available, is to not use windows. :)
As it turns out--and I saw the wiki article--this didn't work for me
although I was able to change that path. I discovered that HP hard codes
the path to the OS bootmgr in the firmware and there's no option to
change it in the BIOS Setup. I had to change the name of the OS Bootmgr
file and copy my grub image to that file name.
Then I couldn't boot windoze. (Not really a bad thing, but I need my
iTunes.) I changed the "chainload" line in grub.cgf to point to the file
that I had renamed and now everything works the way I want it to.
[rant]
HP lost a customer in the last couple of days. This was just the
frosting on the cake. When I started trying to fix this I didn't realize
that I was fighting both Microsoft and HP. One is bad enough. Oh well.
[/rant]
Thanks to both William and Emanuale for the help.
Dan
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