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Acer Aspire F15. Windows 10 home edition (pah) The more I use W 10 the more desperate I am to get Linux running on this PC.

Disabled fast startup as recommended. Power button set to 'power down' not hibernate.

Installed latest Ubuntu (can't boot to it anymore to check version)

After initial installation the PC booted by default to Windows, so next boot I hit F12 and got the boot options/list.

Scrolled down to my ubuntu drive and selected it:

Result: booted to GRUB, which gave me the correct available options (Windows or Ubuntu)

Selected Ubuntu, and booted.

Excellent, Ubuntu, wireless network setup etc etc etc.

Shut down, thinking that all I'd need to do is hit F12 on next power up and change the boot order.

That's where things went wrong.

Now when I hit F12 all I get are the boot to Windows options. No sign of Ubuntu anywhere on the F12 menu (only 2 options now, and neither of them is ubuntu)

The bit that has me really confused is that I did manage to get it to boot to Grub, once.

How do I get it to show Grub/Ubuntu again, so I can make the change permanent?

Problems with W 10 appear to be common enough, but I've not found anything similar in my searches.

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Im using windows 8.1 os, and i was able to use a windows compatible boot loader to show both options windows and ubuntu. Try easy BCD, the instructions are on the web, but let me know if you still need help.

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Mount efi partition in microsoft boot rename bootmgfw.efi To bootmgfw_.efi and replace bootmgfw.efi with copy of grub2.efi and then edit grub.cfg to set windows bootloader name to bootmgfw_.efi

How to mount efi partition on windows 10

https://youtu.be/sR68Kr_Hapo

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