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1. #Refind boot manager with touch screen support windows 8
2. #Refind boot manager with touch screen support windows

I have Secure Boot disabled and Legacy Boot also disabled. In the end, Rod Smith's answer above, combined with the information that I found in another forum, did the trick for me. Still, I wanted to be able to have the computer boot directly to Linux, without the need for any user intervention. If I pressed F9 before the HP symbol showed up, I was able to get into a Boot Menu (HP's menu? I don't know.) and from there, to select the "Ubuntu" entry, which in turn took me to GRUB 2 and finally to my Ubuntu installation.

#Refind boot manager with touch screen support windows

That is, even after "successfully" running Boot-Repair, I still had the notebook booting directly into Windows 8. I had this same problem with my HP Pavilion g6 when trying to dual boot Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS and Windows 8. While I already dislike win8 even more than win7, I do need it from time to time for a couple tasks.

#Refind boot manager with touch screen support windows 8

I have seen some suggestions that I should move this file in place of the windows bootmgfw.efi, but I am concerned that I will break things and not be able to boot the windows 8 installation. This works but if I am not paying close attention, it will boot into windows.Īfter I finished running boot-repair, it told me to boot from sda2/EFI/ubuntu/shim圆4.efi

The only way I can boot into Ubuntu is to press F9 when I power the system on and then manually navigate to the ubuntu efi file.

I have looked around the boot options in the bios screen, but it does not give me a choice for Ubuntu. My issue is that I have not been able to get it to boot straight off the new efi file that was created. I used boot-repair to get set up to boot into grub. I have an HP Pavilion Sleekbook 14 laptop that I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot with the original windows 8.