[Bug 1495570] Re: Re-installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS alongside Windows 8.1 failed.

[Eloy Vallina]

Could you describe the problem in further detail?

- In which order did you install the Ubuntu and Windows?
If you installed Windows after Ubuntu it is a well known issue that the latter overwrites the boot menu so Grub won't show up. That been the case you can find information on how to fix it at askubuntu.com

- Is Windows overriding grub every time you boot into it? 
This also a well known issue

- Is something else going on?

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Title:
  Re-installation of Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS alongside Windows 8.1 failed.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Switching between OS's causes grub file to be overwritten by Windows?

  My technical knowledge is very limited therefore I am unable to solve
  the problem?

  Original installation was Ubuntu 14.04.2 but had been upgraded to
  Ubuntu 14.04.3.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt3
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  Date: Tue Sep 15 03:05:33 2015
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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