Change boot drive source in windows 8.1

Need to disable secure boot option in bios and change boot source to cd . How to do this in windows 8.1

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You have an UEFI enabled PC and if you want to boot from CD and if the CD material supports UEFI then the CD must in the drive when you power on the PC.
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Thanks, HP for, the crappily designed BIOS.
Anyway, can anyone PLEASE provide me a way of changing the boot order so that GRUB is loaded first and NOT this crap Windows 8 rubbish (that I would happily bin if I didn't need it for work).

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There is some sort of a "recovery feature" or so that on every boot sets the very first UEFI load option to point to one of the two locations, in this order:
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi
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By default, both of the paths above contain the same Microsoft bootloader (if you check the md5sum of both, you'll see they match).
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Optionally, change the name of the Windows boot loader so that you would be certain that it points to the new file location: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} description "Fixed Windows path"
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Delete the two files, \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi and \EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi.
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And that's it, now the UEFI will boot GRUB by default (it won't regenerate the "OS boot Manager" entry since it won't be able to find either of the two hardcoded paths and will "fall back" to properly reading the BootOrder variable), and the F9 menu will still allow choosing to boot Windows directly.

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any help or advice would be really appreciated, thanks

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I recommend not putting Windows and OS X on the same dirve when talking about Mac Pro - unless you just need something small and lite.
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