How to dual boot ubuntu and windows 8?

[mtaylor14]

Can someone help me with my post? Dual boot with Cloudready from USB/SD Card

Product Name: HP Notebook 15-g092na

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi there,

What I am currently doing is installing Neverware Cloudready using the USB installer to an SD card with unallocated storage (so the system creates its own), then going into settings and doing and advanced restart and rebooting in UEFI mode in BIOS. 

I have disabled secure boot. These are the only things I can change (along with the boot order). After I save changes and reboot, I hit F9 which takes me to the boot from USB option where I select the file path to the relevent EFI option.

As I have tried making all the changes possible in BIOS, I am confused as to what I am doing wrong. I wonder if it is relevent to my laptop - HP Notebook 15-g092na.

Many thanks.

[ZekeMX]

Sorry but this is not a solution for UEFI Dual Booting. this is only valid for Legacy.

It seems HP is not good for dual booting since it goes directly to windows since it defaults to the windows UEFI boot loader.

The only way I was able to dual Boot using Grub2 with Mageia Linux 7 and Windows 10 was go to the Bios, disable secureboot, enable legacy. Reformat my harddrive and reinstall windows from a usb key y created using media  creation tool from microsoft. Note: Just be sure to have your windows key handy to reactivate it, in my case my laptop has a digital license since I upgraded from windows 8.1 to windows 10 when it was available free from microsoft. As far as windows 8/8.1 I've read that the key is in your computer bios.. so google it to find a tool to extract your windows key. (I am not responsible for loosing your windows key)

This is a little tricky. Make sure that your legacy usb/dvd is at higher priority than your UEFI's priority or Reboot you computer and try pressing F9 key to see if your (legacy usb/dvd) appears so that windows will install in legacy mode.

Once Windows is installed I was able to install mageia linux and able to dual boot using grub2.

This is the first time I have own a computer that doesn't allow UEFI dual booting and it has to be an HP.  All of my Dell, Lenovo and Vaio work great so this is my first and las HP I will ever buy. If HP would care about it's customers this would have been fixed already.

Regards