Thanks Brad for your post. Mine was a bit too long probably, but I wanted to be thorough.
If you look closely, I said that I had tried the rEFInd boot manager (though not with the unusual capitalization — that’s why you probably missed it) with no luck. The issue seems to be that the boot entries are overwritten upon reboot. So, even with rEFInd installed, the UEFI BIOS never actually runs it, no matter what I do. The Tbook 11 (and probably most other AndroidIA x86’s) seems to be designed so that you can’t “brick” it by not having a boot entry, i.e., the Android entry. Of course, that assumes that you have AndroidIA installed. My guess is that most of these tablets are sold without keyboards so the judgement was made to ensure that you had to try REALLY hard to do so, i.e., by installing a USB keyboard and booting from a USB stick from there. The problem with this approach is that it seems to prevent someone who wants to do something different from doing so. 🙁
I’m still interested in hearing from someone who has managed to find a way to get past the UEFI BIOS rewriting the boot table upon reboot! Otherwise, it seems like the only option is to buy a tablet with only Win10 installed on it and try from there.
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