This is an old thread that needs to be looked at a little closer. I have a HP laptop that falls in the same category as Mel's. All that Mel instructed to do works great, but now No Windows 8.1 at all. Using refind, or EFI file doesn't work. It brings the grub up and when I try to boot Win it gos right to Mint. Are there any coders out there that might be able to point to both Win 8.1 and Mint?mhbell wrote:Here is what I did. It is kind of a kludge but it works for me and Linux mint boots up by default. If I want Windows I can press F9 and choose a EFI File or ReFind to get to windows 8.1Dngrsone wrote:That's just saying to move the old file to another folder, such as the parent folder of its current location.
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from the Terminal (Linux Mint) I went to /boot/efi/efi and created a Directory called Win8I then went to The Microsoft DirectoryCode: Select all
mkdir Win8
and copied the Windows boot loader to the new Win8 directoryCode: Select all
cd Microsoft
Next I deleted the bootmgfw.efi file in the Microsoft Directory which I am still inCode: Select all
cp bootmgfw.efi /boot/efi/efi/Win8/
Now I went to the ubuntu directory which has the mint boot loaderCode: Select all
rm bootmgfw.efi
and copied it to the Microsoft directory so that at boot up it will bring up the grub boot loader and let me into mint by default.Code: Select all
cd .. /ubuntu
Now when the computer boots it will go to that file in the Microsoft directory and boot to Linux grub. This is the way HP pavilion laptops at least the newer one handle booting preinstalled windows 8.1. I can probably now put a path in the Linux mint grub file pointing to the Win8 directory so I can boot window from grub. I can't use the one that grub 2 finds because That will just bring me back to Mint.Code: Select all
cp grubx64.efi /boot/efi/efi/Microsoft/bootmgfw.efi
Mel
Thanks