Difference between revisions of "UEFI dual boot windows 8 and ubuntu 13.04"
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I installed EasyBCD to manipulate the windows boot options and get it to hand off to the ubuntu partition, but that resulted in a grub> prompt. | I installed EasyBCD to manipulate the windows boot options and get it to hand off to the ubuntu partition, but that resulted in a grub> prompt. | ||
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| + | It is pretty unsatisfying to just basically run a wizard that does a bunch of unknown stuff to the boot sector, but it did work. | ||
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| + | http://askubuntu.com/questions/221835/installing-ubuntu-on-a-pre-installed-uefi-supported-windows-8-system | ||
Latest revision as of 17:14, 2 June 2013
I got a computer with windows 8 pre-installed. The bios indicates that it has UEFI but not secure boot.
Installing Ubuntu for dual boot was pretty easy.
I used Windows 8 to shrink the existing partition and then booted from a LiveUSB 13.04 64bit. The install was smooth.
But after the install, it always booted straight into Windows.
I installed EasyBCD to manipulate the windows boot options and get it to hand off to the ubuntu partition, but that resulted in a grub> prompt.
I finally found a web page that described the procedure that worked: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
It is pretty unsatisfying to just basically run a wizard that does a bunch of unknown stuff to the boot sector, but it did work.
Helpful, but not used:
