Graphical boot menu gone

[gallicbear]

Hi there. I am trying my best to get the graphical boot menu back, the one in blue. All I have is the text version, of black and white. I have followed the tutorial 5245-startup-options. Done it twice, with no success. Settings show all according to the tutorial: default is 'current', identifier is 'current', description is 'windows 8'.
I also did the 'bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy Standard. No success. Got another OS and am dualbooting. Dualbooting works. I have Easybcd 2.2 installed and followed their instructions to write the MBR. Others have done the same and posted the results: blue bootmenu with the 2 or even 3 options. Why is my bootmenu not blue? What else can I do? Thanks.

 

[Brink]

Hello Gallicbear,

Do you have Windows 8 set as the default OS to run at startup?

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5817-startup-options-choose-default-os-run-startup-windows-8-a.html

In addition, double check through the items in the blue Note box at the top of the tutorial below to see if anything may apply as well.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/5245-startup-options-enable-disable-windows-8-a.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[theog]

After you have made the dual boot with EasyECD, If you would like to use the Windows 8 Boot Loader, do a
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2293-refresh-windows-8-a.html
After doing a refresh, you will be using the Windows 8 Boot Loader.





Refresh will also delete EasyBCD.

   Warning

Refresh may delete other app aswell.​

 

[SIW2]

That's a bit drastic. Theog.

@gallic, open an elevated command and type bcdedit /enum all.

Post the output in a text file.

 

[gallicbear]

Thank you all for responding.
Refresh seems drastic to me. Would restore do it, so I don't lose that many programs?
Guess I'll live with the black screen in that case. Thought there was a simple cure.

Here is the output of bcdedit:
Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume1
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
integrityservices Enable
default {current}
resumeobject {1270bb0b-2a8a-11e2-af5e-dc7ada140e81}
displayorder {current}
{cdda5acb-32a4-11e2-be79-1078d24ae734}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
displaybootmenu Yes

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 8
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {1270bb0d-2a8a-11e2-af5e-dc7ada140e81}
integrityservices Enable
recoveryenabled Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {1270bb0b-2a8a-11e2-af5e-dc7ada140e81}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard
usefirmwarepcisettings No

Real-mode Boot Sector
---------------------
identifier {cdda5acb-32a4-11e2-be79-1078d24ae734}
device partition=C:
path \NST\AutoNeoGrub0.mbr
description Ubuntu 12.10 (x64)

 

[SIW2]

If you really want to boot half way into win8 and then out again - by all all means use the kindergarten boot menu.

Probably a good idea to set win8 as default.