good afternoon every. as it's said in the title, I have Windows 8 and Ubuntu on my laptop (EFI) and it boots automatically on Windows 8. To boot on Ubuntu, I have to change the boot order with the F9 key. it's annoying so I want Grub manage it, what must I do?
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I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?
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I have Windows 7 and 8 installed on my laptop, I just installed Ubuntu.  It normally boots up in Windows 8, how do I change that?
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I'm not sure I'd actually do this, but is there a way to make GRUB automatically select the boot option I didn't use last boot? i. e. If I booted into Windows last boot, it selects Ubuntu. If I booted into Ubuntu, it selects Windows. I was just wondering because I often find myself rebooting to switch OSes, as I have different games that I run on each (though with my new rig I don't need to run stuff on Ubuntu just for lower OS resource usage), and I was wondering if I could make it so that every time I pressed "restart" from either OS I wouldn't have to change selections. In practice this would also affect non-restart startups, so then I might have to boot twice to get the OS I was using last time.
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I am just about to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, just need to make sure I know how to remove it later.  I know from past the major problem was when I removed Ubuntu, I either still got into the GRUB booting menu, or I couldn't boot at all, and had to format HDD and start over. Now I found an article practically saying the Windows loader should be back upon deleting Linux partition, so I want to make sure:  If I have Windows and Ubuntu dualboot, and I want to get back to Windows booting quickly itself without choosing from any booting menu, is it enough to just delete the Ubuntu partition? Will the Windows loader override GRUB?  Thanks!
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I try to install Ubuntu 16.04 next to Windows 10. Windows is installed on legacy bios and then upgraded to Windows 10. When I try to install Ubuntu from USB stick, it shows a message titled "Force UEFI installation?". It says that the machine's firmware started the installer in UEFI mode but there is an OS installed using BIOS compatibility mode. If I force installation I won't be able to boot Windows.  How can I start the installer in legacy mode?  BIOS of the machine supports legacy and UEFI modes. Legacy support is enabled. But USB disk is always recognized as EFI. USB disk's name is shown as "EFI USB Disk" in BIOS. I cannot change that. I burned the USB with both startup disk creator on ubuntu 14.04 and pendrive software on Windows. Same result.  Thanks.
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Whenever I boot on Ubuntu, I see the entire GRUB menu by default. Is there a way I could make it simply auto-boot if uninterrupted within X seconds? I remember that this was the case on previous releases of Ubuntu, it would only show the GRUB menu if you held down a button during the boot.   How can I make GRUB do this by default and just get on with the boot process?
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I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed as the only OS. I also have a USB stick with a Windows 7 installation on it. I want to install Windows from the USB stick on my laptop but when I try to restart the laptop to get access to BIOS, I can't seem to find the command for it, its like it skips everything and just says Ubuntu and then takes me to the login screen.  How do I change the boot priority to USB in Ubuntu?
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I have a Dell laptop in which I have dual booted Ubuntu with Windows 10. Usually the laptop loads the Grub menu first.  Recently I had some problems with Windows Bitlocker: every time I open Windows I am prompted to enter the Bitlocker password. In trying to solve this, I accidentaly clicked Ubuntu in the "Delete Boot" option in the boot sequence. Now the laptop boots directly to Windows without first loading the Grub menu.  Luckily, when I restarted the system and clicked "add boot option" I found the efi folder in which the Ubuntu folder is present. In Ubuntu there is fwgrupx64.efi, grubx64.efi, grub.cfg, shimx64.efi, mmx64.efi, and BOOTX64.CSV. On clicking grubx64.efi it shows "Boot name not found".  How can I recover the Grub boot menu?
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I have a Samsung Chronos 7 laptop (NP770Z5E) pre-installed with Windows 8, and I wanted to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside it, so I can dual boot. Here is what I've done:  Updated BIOS to lastest version (P04ABU) using Samsung Updater Reduced Win8 partition by half, I left the others untouched Created a bootable USB stick using  and a Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit image Disabled FastStartup on Win 8 Disabled Fast BIOS Mode Boot Mode changed to CSM OS  Update:  Also disabled Secure Boot (I had to disable it in order to select CSM OS)  After that I saved the BIOS settings, and shut down the computer. I plugged in the USB drive, powered the computer on, entered the BIOS and tried to change the boot order. Oddly, there was only one option in the boot order screen, the USB drive (HDD didn't show up in the boot priority screen). I ignored that and installed Ubuntu. I've created 3 partitions from the unused spaced left: a 8GB swap, a 100MB BIOS boot partition, and the rest to ext4, mounted in /. Boot loader installed on /sda. After a reboot, this message appears:  All boot options are tried. Press &lt;F4&gt; key to recover with factory image using Recovery or any other keys for next boot loop iteration.  So I went to the BIOS to change the boot device priority, and the list is empty! Enabling Secure Boot and Fast BIOS had no effect. I used the Ubuntu Live USB to check the disk contents, I can see the Ubuntu and Win 8 partitions. I've used Boot Repair (using the Recommended Repair), with no avail, the Boot Repair log is here:  Boot Repair showed me a message about the system being a&quot;EFI system&quot;. I suppose that means that I should have checked out the advanced settings. I don't know how to proceed. I don't know if it's a good idea to &quot;recover with factory image&quot; since I have modified the original partitions. Maybe I need to experiment with Boot Repair's advanced settings.
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I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y400 that came pre-installed with Windows 8. I would like to run Ubuntu alongside it in a dual-boot configuration. I've spent the past week fiddling around, re-installing both Windows and Linux in various configurations, and I've come awfully close to success, but seem to have hit a snag with Grub.  For my most recent attempt, I took the following steps:   Disabled Secure Boot Re-imaged Windows 8 from a hidden recovery partition, effectively restoring the machine to factory state Activated an option called Legacy Support in the BIOS (or is it UEFI now?) Booted Ubuntu 13.04 x64 from a USB stick, chose "install alongside Windows" and accepted all default options After a restart, found that I could boot Ubuntu, but could not boot Windows Once into Ubuntu, I ran Boot Repair with recommended settings and accepted all defaults. When Boot Repair finished, I was presented with the following message:      The boot files of [The OS now in use - Ubuntu 13.04] are far from the   start of the disk. Your BIOS may not detect them. You may want to   retry after creating a /boot partition (EXT4, >200MB, start of the   disk). This can be performed via tools such as gParted. Then select   this partition via the [Separate /boot partition:] option of [Boot   Repair]. ()    I followed the instructions at the url in the message, creating a 1GB EXT 4 partition near the start of the drive  when I tried to run Boot Repair again, the "Separate /boot partition" option on the "Grub Location" tab was disabled.  The new partition is /dev/sda11 and has the label GRUB. On restart, I get the following error message:      error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.    grub rescue>    However, if I manually choose the boot partition by hitting F12, I can boot into Windows no problems. Selecting Ubuntu from the boot device menu gives me a Grub menu with the following options:      Ubuntu      Advanced options for Ubuntu       Windows UEFI recovery bootmgfw.efi      Windows Boot UEFI recovery       Windows UEFI recovery LrsBootmgr.efi      Windows Boot UEFI recovery bkpbootx64.efi       Windows Recovery Environment (loader) (on /dev/sda3)       Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda5) System setup    Selecting Ubuntu from this menu allows me to get to my Ubuntu desktop. I haven't tried the other options yet for fear of losing the progress that I've made.   So it looks like I have successfully dual-booted the machine, but that Grub is broken for some reason or another.   My current partition scheme can be seen at:   Thanks in advance - Jonathan
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I got some new hard discs and would like to set my PC up in the following way:   Ubuntu is currently installed on one drive I want to put Windows on a second drive I would like a third drive for shared content (music and stuff) that both OSes can access     What I need to know is what format should the content drive be?  How should I configure the drive order in my bios for GRUB to be boot manager and how to configure GRUB for multi-HDD booting?
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When I boot my computer, I get the Windows Boot Manager with Vista selected and Ubuntu as the other item in the list.  If I choose Ubuntu, I get the GRUB menu. I have updated GRUB menus before so I know how that works, but since Windows Boot Manager comes first, I don't know how to change the default.  I looked at this question:  But it seems that that uses GRUB, but the default I want to change is before GRUB even comes up. Any ideas?
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I have 2 1tb hard drives on my computer with Windows 8 on the first hard drive and nothing on the other.  I want to install Ubuntu 14 on the second hard drive. I've looked up some guides and they all say to install Ubuntu on the sdb partition when booting off a usb stick. I have also seen some say to unplug the Windows HDD and then install Ubuntu onto the second HDD, and Ubuntu will automatically detect Windows and ask what you want to boot into upon boot.   I am really concerned about this - Will it ask me to choose what OS I want to boot into? Is there something like rEFInd(Mac) for Windows? Can anyone please give me a guide on how to do it without ruining my computer?  Thanks
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I've just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 on my partitioned laptop that has Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Grub no longer appeared on boot so I ran boot-repair from an Ubuntu liveUSB. This didn't seem to have any effect. I've checked and secure boot is still disabled. Log from boot-repair:  So what's next?  Update: I've attempted to use chroot to update grub from my Ubuntu partition. update-grub runs successfully finding both linux and windows boot manager but the process still doesn't have any effect. grub-install complains that it cannot find EFI directory (but I have mounted everything correctly).  Update2: Just discovered that running efibootmgr after chroot into ubuntu shows ubuntu as not being in the boot order at all. I manually changed the order and rebooted to discover that the bootorder was reset. I run in windows: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi But this has no effect either even after reporting 'Operation Successful'.
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I installed Ubuntu yesterday alongside Windows 7 and whenever I start my computer I don't have the option to boot Windows. When the computer starts it goes straight to Ubuntu without giving me an OS selection menu. When it goes to Ubuntu it gives me Ubuntu repair options and Ubuntu normal start option. I still have all of the Windows 7 files on my hard drive, but Windows 7 has no way to boot.
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I followed this  to install Ubuntu as dual-boot with Windows 8.1 pre-installed as(UEFI),but I am not able to dual-boot and tried    I first burned an Ubuntu ISO on a blank DVD-R to create the LiveCD. Even with secure boot disabled, when I tried restarting my computer, it never booted to the installation screen, and it just skipped to Windows.  After a lot of skimming, I thought I had to put my computer in Legacy Mode in order to get give my CD/ROM drive priority. I installed Ubuntu and used my existing EFI partition. Ubuntu works, but Windows doesn't, probably because my laptop is stuck in Legacy Mode. I tried switching back to UEFI using boot-repair on the Linux Terminal, and going into Advanced Properties -> Grub Location -> Ticking the checkbox for EFI, but it says I need to be in an EFI session, and now I'm just really lost and confused at what I've all done. I can see my Windows8.1 OS on a partition but I want to dual-boot Windows 8.1 along with Ubuntu?   Did I just brick my computer?
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I've just bought a new Toshiba laptop, on which Windows 8 is preinstalled. I've installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10 and GRUB2 correctly detects Ubuntu and Windows. But the strange problem is that when I try to boot Windows 8, it appears the following error:  /EndEntire file path:/ACPI(a0341d0,0)/PCI(2,1f)/UnknwnMessaging(12)/HD(2,200800,82000,a8d996409dcfe211,a8,59)/File(\EFI|Microsoft\Boot)/File(bootmgfw.efi)/EndEntire error: cannot load image.   I've tried to solve using boot-repair, using the auto-correction. But never has changed. Here is the log generated by boot-repair:   How can I fix this?