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After installing Ubuntu my Surface Pro will only boot into the UEFI firmware settings. I have re-installed the OS several times with the same result, I have also run "check disk for defects" and it comes back fine. I ran boot-repair utility and it still hasn't corrected the problem, it said that it did but when I try to reboot as instructed it loads UEFI.

The only way that I can get my Surface to load the Ubuntu OS is to launch it via the "Try Ubuntu without installing" option, but I want it to be my primary (only OS) on this device, the Windows OS files have been overwritten at this point anyways.

Zanna
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Deeter Splean
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I had a similar problem on my Surface Pro, I wanted to dual boot with Kubuntu and Windows 8.1. After installing Kubuntu I couldn't boot into Kubuntu from the HDD - only from the live USB.

I tried a lot of things including boot-repair. Eventually I gave in and tried rEFInd which I saw mentioned somewhere online. I booted into the Kubuntu live usb and installed rEFInd after mounting /dev/sda2 as /boot/efi. As it's installing it loads onto the /boot/efi partition. You'll have to click "ok" at one point in the install. I rebooted and was left with a bunch of boot options! Looks good! I chose one of the first ubuntu partitons and it booted!

The instructions that worked for me:

First boot into a live USB session

sudo mkdir -p /boot/efi
sudo mount /dev/sdXN /boot/efi

where sdXN is your efi partition, eg sda2 in my case. If you don’t know the values of X and N for your system then fire up gparted and look for the partition with a boot flag.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rodsmith/refind
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install refind

then reboot.

edit: found the original answer that this is based on and fixed up a mistake in my code: How Can I Get GRUB to Work After Restoring Deleted EFI Partition?

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