dual boot problem

[Philip Arnold]

On 07/07/2013 09:10 PM, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have an HP laptop with win 8 and Ubuntu 1304 AMD 64 bit desktop,
> this morning I after a month of no use I tried this morning, to boot 
> win 8 from grub menu
> and got
>
> Error: can't find command 'drivemap'
> Error: invalid EFI path
> press any key to continue
>
> This puts me back to the grub menu.
> Last time I used this machine both systems were working fine. Ubuntu 
> 13.04 will boot and run ok
> only need to fix video driver (amd radeon) but can live with that at 
> the moment.
> I rarely use win 8, but would be handy if I could use it now and 
> again. If I re-install 13.04,
> would this be likely to fix the problem?
> Any advice would be very much appreciated,
> many thanks in advance.
> Take care
> Winton
>
Square eyes ; i have had problems dual booting various windows OS & 
Ubuntu. Never had windows 8 but Try downloading  Boot Repair Disk from 
Source Forge and burn it to Disk and run it it saved me grief many times 
!. Hope this helps.  Philip