[xubuntu-users] Help with dual booting to Xubuntu and Windows 8.1

[Harry Chapman]

Hi Andy,
Thanks for the suggestion, but that doesn't seem to work. It runs 
successfully, but then it just boots straight to windows still rather 
than going to grub.

I think I'll just have to stick with turning on legacy support, pressing 
Esc, and then going into the boot options each time I turn it on :(
Cheers,
Harry

On 01/02/15 02:26, Andy Proctor wrote:
> On 31/01/15 00:11, Harry Chapman wrote:
>> Hi all!
>> I was wondering if you might be able to help me setting up my 
>> computer for dual booting Windows 8.1 and Xubuntu 14.10.
>>
>> It's installed correctly, but when booting up my computer (an HP 
>> pavilion g6) it doesn't give me the option to go to Grub, and simply 
>> boots straight to Windows.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any option to change the boot order in my 
>> bios settings. If I turn legacy booting support off, it does give me 
>> the option before it boots Windows to go into boot settings, and from 
>> there I can boot to Xubuntu - but that's a rather roundabout method.
>>
>> I've turned secure boot off, and tried boot repair (results here: 
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/9879711/ ) to no avail.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any ideas about how to boot to Xubuntu easily!
>> Cheers,
>> Harry
>>
> Harry have you tried to update grub from within xubuntu? Boot into 
> xubuntu and open up a terminal
>
> sudo update-grub
>
> It should auto detect your windows installation and sort things out 
> for you. Just reboot after running it.
>
> I had to do it recently with a Win7 installation.
>
> HTH
>
> Andy
>
>

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