[ML-General] linux dual boot win 8.1?

[Michael Patton]

Once I get to GRUB, the system boots like the good old days..  If I do
nothing when the computer is powered on, UEFI starts and goes to the menu
that looks for the Windoze bootloader and boots to Win 10..

^^ This is basically what's going on here. Like Hunter said too. If I catch
it in time I can change the boot menu and essentially select UEFI or the
alternative. I don't necessarily mind toggling that each time, but if
there's a way to make that not be the case, I'd love to figure that out.

Since this machine came pre-loaded with windows, I suppose I can make a
recovery CD and wipe out both OS's and reinstall them both?

thx

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Kevin E. Ivey <ik04 at isot.com> wrote:

> On 2015-10-08 17:50, Michael Patton wrote:
>
>> So, I got linux mint installed along side Win 8, but when grub comes
>> up and I select "windows 8" it says that the boot record is missing or
>> contains errors...I completely panicked...so I turned it off and i'm
>> able to get into the setup and...well, now I can't remember what I
>> selected but windows loads.
>>
>> During the install process, I switched the boot from UEFI to Legacy to
>> get it to find the usb stick early enough to boot. No matter how many
>> times I tried, this was the only way it would find the usb stick and
>> boot from it first (already changed the boot order, etc.).
>>
>> So, it's installed and works, windows 8 still here and works, but
>> obviously something isn't right.
>>
>> Should I change it back to UEFI now that everything is installed? I
>> don't understand wth UEFI is...
>>
>> Also, didn't want to run a virtual machine, so that's why I wanted to
>> do a dual boot (again).
>>
>> Thx.
>>
>
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Each OEM does their UEFI slightly different...  My HP laptop has a very
> complicated boot sequence and I have to hit f9 prior o the UFI boot system
> looking for the first GPT partition.
>
> I re-sized my Windoze partition and left empty space on the drive. After
> creating my new GPT partitions and installing linux in the remaining drive
> space, GRUB was installed in the Boot Partition of the drive.
>
> UEFI and Windoze do not use the old way of booting from the first
> partition, so the computer will not even see the GRUB loader unless the f9
> key is pressed to open a menu that gives a choice of booting to an optical
> drive or a USB drive or the Hard drive!  By selecting the HDD, the system
> bypasses EFI completely and reverts to a legacy boot to the Boot partition,
> where GRUB resides...
>
> Once I get to GRUB, the system boots like the good old days..  If I do
> nothing when the computer is powered on, UEFI starts and goes to the menu
> that looks for the Windoze bootloader and boots to Win 10...
>
> My UEFI boot menu will not allow me to boot directly to the HDD, so one
> boot system does not see the other.  It'd a goofy setup, but it works...
>
> Kevin
>
>
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