Ooops. Ignore that trailing "did not work". It was offscreen as I edited.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ron Leach <ronle...@tesco.net> wrote: > >> On 28/08/2014 16:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >>> >>> On reboot, it went unconditionally to Windows 8.1. No signs of GRUB. >>> It seems I'm still missing something. I wonder what. >>> >>> >> Kevin, is it worth cross-checking that the boot/BIOS is set up like this: >> >> http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch03s06.html#boot-dev-select >> >> This was no help. Only one suggestion was new to me: disabling fast > startup in Windows. I did that but see no difference. > > > >> I have been looking into dual boot with 8.1 because I was thinking about >> a new laptop, and most of the reports I have seen have mentioned the effect >> that you see. Someone had suggested that W8.1 is rewriting the boot loader >> back to its 'original' as a security measure (in case it had been changed >> for bad purposes). Apparently, there is a remark on MS support site about >> this behaviour, but I have not seen it. This article might help: >> >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/235567/windows-8- >> removes-grub-as-default-boot-manager >> >> This was better. First, the suggestion to use F12 was helpful: I wound > up in a menu that allowed me to boot into Ubuntu on my hard drive for the > very first time. > Its suggestion about the bcdedit Windows command did not help until I > watched the youtube video and realized I had not known how to run the > command prompt as administrator. > So: in Windows start menu, type "cmd" and _right_ click to run as > administrator. One solution presented was then to type the command exactly > as shown: > > bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi > > It warned that it might not work for everyone. It turns out that included > me. But the thread went on to a YouTube video that showed how to turn off > Win 8.1's "automatic repair" that apparently restores the Windows > bootloader whether you want it or not. The suggested fix was the command > > bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled no > > > This also did nothing for me, but it might help folks who lose the ability > to boot Ubuntu whenever they boot into Windows. I haven't gotten that far. > > So what I have is F12 every time I want to boot into Ubuntu. It's > workable but annoying. That's better than the prior unworkable state, so > it counts as progress. > > One interesting thing is that F12 is the familiar "boot menu" key. When I > choose the drive I want to boot, it takes me to a second menu I've never > seen before. It has Ubuntu in 3 different spellings, and only the > uncapitalized "ubuntu" one takes me where I want to go. It was originally > shorter. I'm not sure what I'm doing to add things to the menu, especially > misleading broken things. > > So mysteries remain, and I'll keep working on it. > > > > > > This did not work for me, > > When you do solve the problem, would you be able to post back explaining >> what you had to do? >> >> regards Ron >> >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a >> subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53ff5639.5080...@tesco.net >> >> > > > -- > Kevin O'Gorman > > programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > -- Kevin O'Gorman programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
