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linux - Windows 8.1 Advanced startup options disappeared


OK so a bit of background: I need to disable driver signing because I need to install a modified driver so that I can hook up my PS3 controller.


I have a dual boot setup with Mint 17 and windows 8.1 x64 using rEFInd as the boot manager because MSI hates Linux.


Now I followed these various steps but



  1. when I try to get into the advanced startup, it simply does not exist, at all. I have options to shut down or go into uefi, none of the others

  2. using Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider did nothing, on restart or digitally signing.


  3. Tying command line bcdedit /set TESTSIGNING ON spews


    The boot configuration data store could not be opened.  
    The requested system device cannot be found.


So what I THINK is going on is that it cant find the bcd store, and doesn't store the boot options.


So how do I either



  • install an unsigned driver without rebooting

  • get into test mode without requiring boot configuration

  • set windows boot settings in rEFInd from linux

  • sign a driver locally



Answer



Ok so I haven't exactly figure out what happened to the advanced options


But I did solve my problem



  1. need a windows 8 DVD

  2. boot the dvd and click on repair

  3. go to troubleshoot -> advanced options -> command line

  4. run diskpart

    1. list disk

    2. sel disk 0 select your drive with the efi partition (replace 0)

    3. list vol

    4. sel vol 1 now select the drive with the efi partition

    5. if it does not have a drive letter, assign one assign letter=z



  5. And this is the crucial part if you are dual booting. You need to specify where the BCD file manually for bcdedit to stop throwing that annoyin error I mentioned

    1. bcdedit /store z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD /set {default} loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

    2. bcdedit /store z:\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD /set {default} TESTSIGNING ON




For those interested the 2 key parts are specifying your bcd store manually, since in my case the dualbooting screwed things a bit, and specifying {default} so that it knows to install it in the OS loader not the Boot manager


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