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Installing Debian alongside Windows 8.1
I've installed Debian alongside Windows before without a problem. Currently though my laptop has only Windows 8.1 and I'm planning on re-installing Debian Wheezy.
In the past I shrunk the C: drive from within Windows to make space for Debian and then installed Debian onto the freed up space with only two partitions to make it easier / and <swap>. If I did try to manually set up the partitions by creating a separate /home, /usr, /var, /tmp, etc.. partitions I'll get a message about there being no EFI partition. I did read somewhere that having two EFI partitions isn't such a great set up. If one were to create an EFI partition under Linux alongside Window's EFI partition is this ok?
After installing Debian Linux the laptop never boots directly to GRUB2 but instead goes straight to Windows. The only way I can get to Debian is by pressing F9 and selecting Debian Linux; this loads Grub2 which shows Debian Linux and of course Windows 8.1 in the boot menu. I recall when I used to dual boot this laptop with Windows 8.1/Ubuntu running #update-grub /dev/sda would fix the problem and the laptop would boot directly to the Grub2 menu but not so with Debian. Possibly has to do with the partition set-up, maybe missing EFI partition prevents #grub-update from loading Grub Menu at boot-up?
Basically what I'm asking is what is the best or ideal method to install Debian alongside Windows 8.1 and make sure Grub2 shows up as the default boot loader menu instead of the laptop going straight to Windows.
Thank You!
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