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Good day to you all. I have a problem with the bootloader on my pc. I've followed a guide and i've partitioned my SSD so that now I have W8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04. The problem is that when I switch my pc on Windows boots automatically, and to go on Ubuntu I have to shift-click on reboot to get an advanced reboot and i go on Ubuntu, which starts with GRUB2. My problem is that I can't boot directly into GRUB, and I tried going into BIOS, but i can't select which OS/partition to boot first! (Secure/fast boot is disabled)

Any suggestions?

EDIT: I run msconfig, but Ubuntu doesn't show up. If I was to start EasyBCD, it lets me select Ubuntu as default OS, but when I reboot, it starts directly with Windows anyways. Even if it's still ticked as default...

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You obviously installed Windows and Ubuntu to MBR style disk.

Boot is controlled by Windows 8.1 boot manager.

As Windows 8/8.1 has the graphical boot menu enabled some preloading of Windows OS is taking place.

To get rid of this preloading you have to set Windows boot menu to text style.

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  • Hi snayob. I did this test too... this is my bcdedit: IMG... I don't know what happened, but it doesn't work either
    – meis
    Oct 21, 2014 at 7:54
  • Also, i've just checked, and I have a GPT disk
    – meis
    Oct 21, 2014 at 14:54
  • From your posted IMG of bcdedit output - You have to delete "displaybootmenu" element for {bootmgr}, or you can set same element to no.
    – snayob
    Oct 26, 2014 at 14:22

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