Hi, >> I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a >> recent model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in >> that you can specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the >> setting you enter, but it ignores that setting and boots only to the >> default installation, which is something like "\boot\default\boot64.efi". > > If I remember right, when I installed debian alongside windows 8 on my > previous UEFI HP laptop, I had to disable fast boot in windows 8, otherwise > it would boot directly windows, not grub.
The reason for THAT is that Windows with fastboot turned on does a hibernate and not a shutdown when you tell it to shutdown. So when you turn on the machine it does not do a boot cycle but a resume cycle, never going past the boot process. Fastboot is on by default but I have not really found it to speed up the boot process when using a SSD to boot from. Bonno Bloksma
