Troubles with Grub on a Windows 8 preinstalled laptop
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
This happens when installing Ubuntu, either with automatically "install alongside Windows 8" or with "Something else", where I selected the EFI-partition already existing (not sure if Windows created this, or Ubuntu created that partition with the "Install alongside Windows" option).
Will try again.
Also tried running boot-repair on a session run from the USB-stick, gave me this report: http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.331
Date: Sat Aug 17 14:28:03 2013
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Tim Janson (timjanson) wrote | #1 |
| Tim Janson (timjanson) wrote | #2 |
| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote | #3 |
Update: tried again.
This time, installing with "Something Else", I made it create an EFI-partition at the beginning of the disk (somehow there were 450 empty MBs), and set the boot loader installation location to sda (instead of sda1, where the EFI-partition was).
Now, it installed correctly, but I can only boot into Ubuntu by getting going to the boot options menu before boot (where you also can go to the BIOS screen), and making it start up from an EFI file.