So i installed ubuntu on my new laptop from Dell (i know, that was my first mistake.) I followed a guide saying to install manually and set partitions up manually. Everything installed fine. I could get into windows 8 and linux but i had to to hit f12 for boot manager. Well, the guide i had went into detail about using EasyBCD to have windows add an entry for dual booting. First i would like to say that i think this program is a huge piece of crap. Every time i open this program it changes my entries around. I crashed the BCD and i had to order a recovery usb drive from dell. It's crashed it 3 times so far. All i would like is to have a menu that lets me choose between the OS's without having to frantically hit the F12 button repeatedly for 5 seconds after turning the power on. I've searched and searched and i cant find anything except for stuff that leads back to easybcd. The bios in this laptop are very limited. If i turn UEFI off then it wont even boot into anything. All i can do is go into bios. Does anyone have any ideas on what the heck is going wrong with easybcd? It's so screwed up, if i add an entry for ubuntu, it adds a second entry for windows 8 and says the path to ubuntu is C:\ and then if i delete that and go back to new entry it will put it something completely different.
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