Veracrpyt EFI takeover
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I can hold F12 on boot to boot ubuntu for now but this seems dumb. I set grub as the default boot loader and it works as long as I never boot into windows. As soon as I boot into windows bam It replaces veracrypt boot loader. How do I stop veracrypt from taking as the default EFI boot loader?
I used veracrypt instead of bitlocker because I want to be able to run the same install in virtualbox infact that is how I installed windows is in a VM then I was able to dualboot and reach the same machine.
Sorry for this issue. Indeed, I added a modification in the latest version to fix Windows overwriting VeraCrypt bootloader but I failed to take into account multi-OS boot case.
I will implement a fix by performing this override only when Windows bootloader is detected and also refrein from setting VeraCrypt as default bootloader unless it is explicitely requested using a registry key.
I targetting an update2 release of version 1.24 that will contain this and my current plan is to make it available by December 1st.
Could you do one better and let the user decide what gets set as the default UEFI loader? Oooh that could fix all our issues.
I agree that it would be better but it requires a lot of modifications to the UI and the internal logic . This should be done later when I have more time for UI modifications (UI handling and its logic is one of the most time consuming task in development with regards to the perceived end result by users).
@jeffsadowski: I forgot to mention that there is a way to disable this VeraCrypt behavior that I already posted in a previous forum thread at https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/general/thread/8b880c2b26/?limit=25#1060
Using the registry key mentionned there, the EFI boot order will not be modified by VeraCrypt.