I've been trying for a month now to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Jessie now. I thought it was about time I asked for help as I'm becoming a little crazy.
I've tried following a lot of tutorials, I'll link a few:
I can't post more links, a shame, because I've tried a lot.
There were some really easy tutorials, like the first one, where I couldn't continue, because sudo modprobe efivars
failed. sudo modprobe efivarfs
did succeed though. But when I continued after using efivarfs, there wasn't a new entry.
I also tried using EasyBCD, setting it on GRUB 2 and "automatically choose and load", but it would choose "/NST/AutoNeoGrub0.mbr". Which is of course is not correct. So basically, to sum up my problem: modprobe efivars
doesn't work, and because a lot depends on that, every tutorial I follow, fails.
How I can start Linux and some background information: I had Windows 8 first and still want to keep it and use its bootloader, because it already loads windows 8 a bit. I've got Secure Boot off and UEFI on with Legacy boot options on. I can boot Debian by going into boot menu and choosing Hard Drive under Legacy Boot.
Oh yeah, Almost forgot, when I wanted to install Debian, using an USB stick with some nice Windows programs didn't work, so I had to use a DVD+RW to install it.
I've tried this order a few times now:
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi
sudo modprobe efivarfs
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
Sometimes I had to use --force
, I don't remember why anymore, I have tried so much stuff...
I really hope some of you have got a solution for me!