[Bug 1213362] Re: Troubles with Grub on a Windows 8 preinstalled laptop

[Tim Janson]

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.

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Title:
  Troubles with Grub on a Windows 8 preinstalled laptop

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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://paste.ubuntu.com/5995882/, not sure if
  it's related or helps.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  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=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
  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)

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