- #Easy to boot add menus how to#
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- #Easy to boot add menus windows 8#
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So the only route I think I can take is to manually enter the information into the BCD store (which is now in the unmapped EFI partition) using bcdedit but i'm not sure how to do this. I know there is a work around to stop windows from doing this but I'm not interested in that as it is a messy hack.Īlso dont't suggest EasyBCD or Visual BCD because these programs do not work with GPT yet (as far as I'm aware). Please do not suggest adding windows to grub as I have already done this, windows every now and again whilst updating will change the default boot manager back to the Windows one. I have UEFI with secure boot enabled and both OS's can be booted from the UEFI boot menu by pressing F9.
#Easy to boot add menus windows 8#
Click the links to visit the community documentation regarding these topics.I would like to know how to add Ubuntu to the Windows 8 Boot Menu using bcdedit. If the user doesn't wish to password-protect all menuentries, the custom menu is an easy way to designate only some of the entries while still allowing the GRUB 2 scripts to operate normally. GRUB 2 features such as Passwords and Submenus work in custom menus. As a minimum, a valid menuentry should include: The surest way to build a custom menu is to copy one or more working menuentries from the grub.cfg file. In general, users should honor the comments and leave these lines alone, adding custom entries below the existing lines.
The current 40_custom file contains only lines which are not actually imported into grub.cfg. The two scripts which actually place items into the menu are /etc/grub.d/10_linux, which locates kernels in the default Ubuntu partition, and /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober, which builds entries for operating systems found on other partitions.įor information on these files/folders please refer to the Grub2 page.Ī sample custom menu called 40_custom is provided in the /etc/grub.d/ folder.
Most custom menu users will want to allow these components to continue to operate normally. The /etc/default/grub file contains most of the user-defined variables such as display time, menu resolution and default menuentry. The GRUB 2 menu configuration file ( grub.cfg) includes section remarks showing which script is responsible for creating the section. These scripts include /etc/grub.d/00_header and /etc/grub.d/05_header.
#Easy to boot add menus series#
GRUB 2 constructs the menu via a series of scripts, with each script building a portion of the menu. Loss of input of some user preferences from the /etc/default/grub file.