Hello, You can install GRUB for EFI too. If Windows does break (it shouldn't) then [1] contains instructions on how to fix it from a Windows DVD/USB installer. You can download the Windows installer image from Microsoft. I actually had to put the Windows installer on a multiboot USB to make it boot [2]. Florian [1] http://superuser.com/questions/460762/how-can-i-repair-the-windows-8-efi-boo... [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multiboot_USB_drive#Chainloading_Window...

Am 15.03.2016 um 05:06 schrieb Zachary Kline:

Hi All,

I’ve been a Linux user off and on for ten years or so, and over the past while really come to enjoy the simplicity of Arch. I decided to install on my new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 10.

I honestly almost feel like I preferred the BIOS/boot sector situation. I understand the advantages of EFI in theory, but Win 10 is driving me nuts with its refusal to be a good EFI citizen. Compounding the frustration is the fact that I’m totally blind, and thus my ability to interact with EFI is limited. I’ve tried the wiki-recommended approach of using BCDEdit to set the {fwbootmgr} DEFAULT entry to the Linux boot manager, in my case systemd-boot. As far as I can tell it does absolutely nothing, that is, Windows still boots after a computer restart.

The only way I’ve managed to boot Linux is to change BootNext, or as BCDEdit calls it, BootSequence. This works for a one-time boot but is fairly tedious.

The alternative wiki approach of changing the path of {bootmgr}, doesn’t seem to do anything either. Windows still boots as it always has. I note that {fwbootmgr} and {bootmgr} seem to be different. I’ve considered changing the path of {fwbootmgr} instead, but ben reluctant for fear of locking myself out of Windows.

Any advice would be appreciated. If this were a BIOS system I would have no trouble with Grub. Thanks much, Zack. Hello Zachary,

Have you turned off fastboot in Windows 10? On two of three machines, I'm unable to change {bootmgr} from within Windows. I have no idea why this happens. Regards Sascha

On 03/15/2016 06:26 PM, Zachary Kline wrote:

Hi Murari,

Thank you for this suggestion. It seems to have worked as expected. My laptop defaults to Arch, but I can boot Windows with the second entry. I hope I remember to upgrade the renamed image when systems-boot changes. I don’t anticipate that being too often, thankfully.

Best and thanks again, Zack.

You could write yourself a pacman hook to do that for you if you feel like it. Seems like it would be exacly what you need. Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808