Any Recommendations or Reviews of a Good Boot Manager Utility?

[Ironman]

Hey guys, so I recently got a second SSD for my rig and I instald CentOS Linux on it. I currently have Windows 8.1 on my main SSD and I can dual boot into Win 8.1 and CentOS sucessfully. The only thing, if I want to boot in to CentOs, i have to press f8 and override the main boot option, which is not a serious issue but a bit annoying. So I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good GUI based Boot Manager utility that will give me the option ot select which OS I want to boot from? Something like the screenshot below:


Obvisouly rEFInd is one!

Also I have ASUS Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, which UEFI Motherboard if that affects my choices or not. (Is there a built in utility I could use that I don't know about?).

[Geek-9pm]

No, I do not have a recommendation. But here is a reference tahtdetails some of the most popular boot loaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders
Among the best are versions of GRUB. The latest is GRUB GRUB.

GNU GRUB was developed from a package called the Grand Unified Bootloader (a play on Grand Unified Theory[5]). It is predominantly used for Unix-like systems. The GNU operating system uses GNU GRUB as its boot loader, as do most Linux distributions. The Solaris operating system has used GRUB as its boot loader on x86 systems, starting with the Solaris 10 1/06 release

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Many boot loaders are not ready for the UFI standard. Also note that some still need a MBR to function. So you have mostly versions of GRUB and the Windows boot loader and a few others conform to the new standards for hard drives.

[Ironman]

Yeah, I was doing some more research into to it rEFInd supports UEFI and so does EasyBCD, but I seen a lot of peopel having all sorts of issues with Boot Manager Utitlities/Loadeds with UEFI Firmware. I just saw this screen shot of the Windows Boot Manager giving the option to boot to Windows or Ubuntu:



If anyone can show me how to do that with Windows Boot Manger, that would work for me!

[Geek-9pm]

Short answer...

 1.   Backup your Windows partition. ...
 2.   Shrink the Windows partition. ...
 3.    Create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu on it. ...
 4.   Turn off fast boot and disable secure boot. ...
 5.    Run the Ubuntu Installer. ...
 6.    Partition the empty space. ...
 7.    Complete the installation. ...
 8.   Reboot into the live image.

If you get that far, the rest should be easy...
But here is some more...
Seven ways to set up multi-booting with Windows 8 and Linux
The UEFI issues has beaten beaten to death.
Install Linux with Secure Boot.
Don't forget a backup. Or just try it first on a spare HDD.

[Ironman]

Short answer...

 1.   Backup your Windows partition. ...
 2.   Shrink the Windows partition. ...
 3.    Create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu on it. ...
 4.   Turn off fast boot and disable secure boot. ...
 5.    Run the Ubuntu Installer. ...
 6.    Partition the empty space. ...
 7.    Complete the installation. ...
 8.   Reboot into the live image.

hmm...I think this is for someone who wants to install two different OS on one HDD or SSD. I have both my operating system already installed on seperate SSDs. And my Linux install (CentOS 7) is already doing a Secure (UEFI) boot if I choose to boot from it.

If you get that far, the rest should be easy...
But here is some more...
Seven ways to set up multi-booting with Windows 8 and Linux
The UEFI issues has beaten beaten to death.
Install Linux with Secure Boot.
Don't forget a backup. Or just try it first on a spare HDD.

Most of the articles I have seen are like this giving solutions on how to Multi-boot from on hard drive, not multibooting from multiple hard drives.

What I would l to do is to have Windows Boot Manager to prompt me to select which OS(and I guess which disk) to boot from, instead of me having to manually overide the the boot priority (pressing F8 all the time) and selecting which SSD I want to boot to. If Windows Boot manager won't let me do that, is there a tool out there that will let me do this reatively easily with out giving too much headaches about UEFI?

[patio]

I have 2 dual-booty setups and it's quick enough for me to select boot via BIOS...after a week it was automatic to me.

[camerongray]

As Patio said, if you have two separate disks, install the OS and its default boot manager to each disk individually and then use the motherboard's boot selection menu to pick which drive you want to boot - Saves massive headaches and allows you to totally nuke either drive with no affect on being able to boot the other one.

[Geek-9pm]

Learning to use the BIOS thing is the easy way. 

If you want more work, take a look at the GRUB wiki.

SuperGrubDisk.org/wiki
They suggest using a USB Flash with GRUB installed. 

EDIT: The wiki requires a good knowledge of Linux. But the GRUB is compatible with all versions of Windows. The fend product can be very nice and automatic. Just takes a lot of work to set it up.