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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one / and swap.)



After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!



What I've tried:




  1. I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.

  2. I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.


  3. Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update


    Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:



    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found
    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


    That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
    sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair


    Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says




    EFI detected. Please check the options.




    I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*


    I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic


    After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.




  4. I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.



    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub


    The grub file came up, I added a # in front of GRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0, saved, and in the terminal wrote:



    sudo update-grub


    This comes backs:



    /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.



And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?










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  • Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

    – Avinash Raj
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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one / and swap.)



After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!



What I've tried:




  1. I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.

  2. I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.


  3. Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update


    Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:



    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found
    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


    That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
    sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair


    Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says




    EFI detected. Please check the options.




    I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*


    I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic


    After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.




  4. I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.



    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub


    The grub file came up, I added a # in front of GRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0, saved, and in the terminal wrote:



    sudo update-grub


    This comes backs:



    /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.



And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?










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  • Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

    – Avinash Raj
    Apr 21 '14 at 7:20














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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one / and swap.)



After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!



What I've tried:




  1. I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.

  2. I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.


  3. Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update


    Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:



    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found
    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


    That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
    sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair


    Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says




    EFI detected. Please check the options.




    I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*


    I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic


    After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.




  4. I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.



    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub


    The grub file came up, I added a # in front of GRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0, saved, and in the terminal wrote:



    sudo update-grub


    This comes backs:



    /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.



And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?










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Yesterday I used a live cd to install Ubuntu 14.04 on a computer already loaded with Windows 8. The Ubuntu install did NOT recognize any operating system on the computer, so I chose Something else and ended up with several partitions. (If it matters, I have four Windows partitions (recovery, boot, the main one with all my files, and some other one that's tiny so I didn't worry about it), plus a main Ubuntu one / and swap.)



After installing Ubuntu and restarting, there has been no option to choose between Ubuntu and Windows at startup; it simply starts up as Windows. Ubuntu is now installed but I have no way to use it!



What I've tried:




  1. I tried using the Advanced System Settings on Windows to enable the boot selection, but Windows 8 didn't recognize any other operating systems either.

  2. I held down shift during startup to try and get the grub screen, but no luck. (After a full Windows 8 shutdown, not the fastboot crap.) Also, f8, no luck.


  3. Other guides said to get boot-repair. I downloaded the image file, burned it to a cd, and tried to boot from it, but nothing happened; Windows booted normally. I booted from the live cd, opened the terminal, and (as instructed by this guide on Ubuntu Forums)



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update


    Everything goes fine until the very end, when the last two lines back read:



    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404 Not Found
    E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.


    That 404 HTTP error was talked about here: Can't find boot-repair package for the newest version of Ubuntu, so using that advice I did:



    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
    sudo sh -c "sed -i 's/trusty/saucy/g' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yannubuntu-boot-repair-trusty.list"
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair


    Boot repair worked (woohoo!) and it ran for a few seconds before a pop-up that says




    EFI detected. Please check the options.




    I selected to fix most frequent problems. It told me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    It did some thinking, then told me to put this into a new terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" dpkg --configure -a
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -fy
    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get purge-y --force-yes grub* shim-signed linux-signed*


    I was prompted to go forward, and it said to copy-paste the following into the terminal:



    sudo chroot "/mnt/boot-sav/sdb5" apt-get install -y --force-yes grub-efi-amd64-signed shim-signed linux-signed-generic


    After going forward, it said an error occurred during the repair, and to write down this URL, and to email boot.repair@gmail.com if I still have boot problems. It also reminded me to disable SecureBoot in BIOS.



    I disabled SecureBoot, but nothing had changed. Windows still booted, just like before.




  4. I booted from the live cd again and opened my grub file.



    sudo gedit /etc/default/grub


    The grub file came up, I added a # in front of GRUB_HIDDEN-TIMEOUT=0, saved, and in the terminal wrote:



    sudo update-grub


    This comes backs:



    /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of '/cow'.



And that's as far as I've gotten. No luck whatsoever. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here?







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  • Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

    – Avinash Raj
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  • Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

    – Avinash Raj
    Apr 21 '14 at 7:20

















Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

– Avinash Raj
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Don't try all the options related to boot-repair. Your problem is a solvable one. Please get into the chat.

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Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk



http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/



I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.






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  • By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

    – amanthethy
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  • SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

    – Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended



open advanced options in boot-repair



in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)



advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")



advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")



advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)



this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader






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    Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal

    (for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):



    sudo update-grub


    After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)



    After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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      If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".



      This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.



      Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.



      Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.






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        If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.



        There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.



        Good luck.






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          Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)



          Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.



          Now restart and it should work fine.






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            Ashton,



            You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.



            You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair. That is why it didn't work.






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              (for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
              sudo update-grub
              After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
              After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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              Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk



              http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/



              I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.






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              • By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

                – amanthethy
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              • SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

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              Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk



              http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/



              I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.






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              • By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

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              • SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

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              Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk



              http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/



              I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.






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              Try to reinstall now that EFI is disabled. You could also use SuperGrubDisk



              http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wizard-restore-grub/



              I'm no expert but I suspect that EFI blocked Grub from being put on the MBR.







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              • SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

                – Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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              • By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

                – amanthethy
                Aug 5 '14 at 6:44











              • SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

                – Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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              By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

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              By EFI do you mean SecureBoot?

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              SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

              – Jo-Erlend Schinstad
              Jul 8 '17 at 7:25





              SecureBoot is a part of UEFI. It's probably the difference between legacy and UEFI that's causing the problem, not SecureBoot in itself.

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              use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended



              open advanced options in boot-repair



              in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)



              advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")



              advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")



              advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)



              this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader






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                use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended



                open advanced options in boot-repair



                in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)



                advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")



                advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")



                advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)



                this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader






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                  use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended



                  open advanced options in boot-repair



                  in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)



                  advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")



                  advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")



                  advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)



                  this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader






                  share|improve this answer













                  use advanced options(at left bottom) in boot-repair not the recommended



                  open advanced options in boot-repair



                  in advanced options=>main options (no changes needed)



                  advanced options=>GRUB location (select "place grub into" select "sda")



                  advanced options=>GRUB options (select "Purge grub before reinstalling it")



                  advanced options=>Other options (unselect the "Repair Windows boot files" & "Check internet connection"if they are selected)



                  this might overwrite your windows boot-loader with grub, then u can select the OS from grub boot-loader







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                      Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal

                      (for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):



                      sudo update-grub


                      After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)



                      After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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                        Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal

                        (for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):



                        sudo update-grub


                        After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)



                        After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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                          Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal

                          (for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):



                          sudo update-grub


                          After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)



                          After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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                          Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal

                          (for terminal press Ctrl+Alt+T):



                          sudo update-grub


                          After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)



                          After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.







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                              If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".



                              This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.



                              Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.



                              Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.






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                                If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".



                                This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.



                                Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.



                                Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.






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                                  If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".



                                  This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.



                                  Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.



                                  Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.






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                                  If you have Ubuntu properly installed (I run Xubuntu): when you start and you get to the Windows login screen, press SHIFT and hit "Restart".



                                  This gets the machine to restart and to look for alternative options.



                                  Select the "boot from media" option and Ubuntu should be there to be selected even though your disk or pendrive are no longer plugged in into the machine.



                                  Worked for me with Xubuntu 12.04 and Windows 10.







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                                  answered Nov 21 '15 at 14:38









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                                      If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.



                                      There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.



                                      Good luck.






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                                        If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.



                                        There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.



                                        Good luck.






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                                          If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.



                                          There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.



                                          Good luck.






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                                          If your bios is a UEFI bios then I would make sure to check in the BIOS that it set to boot to your GRUB efi file.



                                          There should be a menu where you can pick what to boot to from your boot partition. Inside the boot partition should be a folder called GRUB. In that folder should be an efi file that will boot to GRUB.



                                          Good luck.







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                                              Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)



                                              Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.



                                              Now restart and it should work fine.






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                                                Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)



                                                Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.



                                                Now restart and it should work fine.






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                                                  Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)



                                                  Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.



                                                  Now restart and it should work fine.






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                                                  Well actually that happened to me too when I installed Ubuntu with "something else" option . The thing that worked for me, Ubuntu is installed you just need to go to the boot menu (you can possibly access this menu by using F12 and choose UEFI boot mode)



                                                  Now under boot device menu choose the option as Ubuntu.



                                                  Now restart and it should work fine.







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                                                  answered Nov 15 '17 at 19:00









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                                                      Ashton,



                                                      You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.



                                                      You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair. That is why it didn't work.






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                                                        Ashton,



                                                        You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.



                                                        You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair. That is why it didn't work.






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                                                          Ashton,



                                                          You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.



                                                          You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair. That is why it didn't work.






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                                                          Ashton,



                                                          You haven't been around for 3 1/2 years so you will never read this answer. It is for everyone else that finds this question. There are seven answers so far none with any up-votes.



                                                          You turned off secure boot after running boot-repair. You were supposed to turn off secure boot first and then run boot-repair. That is why it didn't work.







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                                                          answered Feb 8 '18 at 1:40









                                                          WinEunuuchs2UnixWinEunuuchs2Unix

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                                                              0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
                                                              (for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
                                                              sudo update-grub
                                                              After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
                                                              After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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                                                              • This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

                                                                – karel
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                                                              0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
                                                              (for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
                                                              sudo update-grub
                                                              After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
                                                              After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






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                                                              • This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

                                                                – karel
                                                                Feb 9 '18 at 0:35














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                                                              0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
                                                              (for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
                                                              sudo update-grub
                                                              After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
                                                              After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.






                                                              share|improve this answer













                                                              0 Login as usual into your account and then type this in terminal
                                                              (for terminal press Ctrl + Alt + T ):
                                                              sudo update-grub
                                                              After this you'll find in the last line the name of the other OS (In your case Windows 8)
                                                              After this, restart as usual and you'll find the dual boot menu.







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                                                              answered Feb 7 '18 at 8:54









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                                                              • This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

                                                                – karel
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                                                              • This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

                                                                – karel
                                                                Feb 9 '18 at 0:35

















                                                              This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

                                                              – karel
                                                              Feb 9 '18 at 0:35





                                                              This is a duplicate of this answer: askubuntu.com/questions/451484/…

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