Take the tour ×  I'm trying to do a dual boot of Windows 8 and
Ubuntu 12.10 on my Surface Pro and would like to use rEFInd for
my boot manager.  I do not want to ever install GRUB, including
during installation of Ubuntu, since my past experience with
attempting to do that on this device has led to corruption of
the windows boot loader, which can effectively brick the device
since it seems to need these to boot from USB. I'm aware of the
success of Dual boot Surface Pro with Ubuntu?, but want to stay
away from GRUB completely.  So far I have tried the following:
1. Install and test that rEFInd is working for just Windows 8
with no issues   2. Install Ubuntu 12.10 from "ubiquity -b" to
prevent GRUB from being installed   3. Verify I can still
properly boot into Windows 8  Unfortunately this doesn't seem to
generate any .efi stubs for Ubuntu, so I'm not sure what to do
at this point. What can I do to generate these without
installing GRUB or any other boot loader? Keep in mind that at
this stage I can't actu