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# 8  
Old 02-03-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
Take another look at the link I posted in my post #3.

That guy had a EFI partition, like you. He installed Debian, like you.
He found that a bootloader was not installed, like you.
He was trying to dual boot Windows, like you.

He spent a lot of time but was good enough to publish his solution.

Here's another link you may find useful:
Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: EFI Boot Loader Installation
I have tried both the links that you have specified. The first link has one difference to my problem. The person there was converting a BIOS installation to UEFI but I am already in UEFI. Plus, the command line options for grub-efi-amd64 like --bootloader-id and --removable are no longer supported. If you want I can probably provide my man page to you.

The second link does not tell me how to make the grub bootable image. I need to know that since update-grub fails for me.
# 9  
Old 02-05-2014
Hmmmmm......I've been thinking about this....and I need to understand more......

How did we get here??

You had a system with Windoze already installed?
It had a EFI partition.

You then installed Debian with the aim of dual booting but it didn't install Grub on install?

You are trying to use Ubuntu Live USB to sort the problem?
# 10  
Old 02-06-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
Hmmmmm......I've been thinking about this....and I need to understand more......

How did we get here??

You had a system with Windoze already installed?
It had a EFI partition.

You then installed Debian with the aim of dual booting but it didn't install Grub on install?

You are trying to use Ubuntu Live USB to sort the problem?
Exactly.
# 11  
Old 02-06-2014
So you installed Debian. 32 bit or 64 bit?

You are using Ubuntu Live USB to attempt Grub install. 32 bit or 64 bit?

Have you seen this:

Debian: switch to UEFI boot - Tanguy Ortolo

It seems to say that the Debian install won't install Grub and that you have to do it yourself.
# 12  
Old 02-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by hicksd8
So you installed Debian. 32 bit or 64 bit?

You are using Ubuntu Live USB to attempt Grub install. 32 bit or 64 bit?

Have you seen this:

Debian: switch to UEFI boot - Tanguy Ortolo

It seems to say that the Debian install won't install Grub and that you have to do it yourself.
I solved the problem. Now I am running Debian Wheezy and Windows 8.1 x64.
# 13  
Old 02-10-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by sreyan32
I solved the problem.
How?
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