ahpitre
March 9th, 2014, 12:19 AM
I have a new laptop with Windows 8.1. Laptop uses UEFI and GPT. I disabled Smart Boot. Ubuntu 13.10 always failed (booted from live CD, but a message "cannot find root", followed by messages about some missing files (couldn't see it completely as it goes away real fast). The installation GRUB menu then appears. I tried running each option (test UBUNTU from live CD, Install Ubuntu, Check Disk for errors), but, screen goes black, and nothing happens.
I then decided to try installing Ubuntu 12.04. It installed successfully, but, GRUB didn't install correctly, and the computer still boots to Windows 8.1 by using the default Windows boot-loader. In Windows, there is no option to add the Ubuntu partition. If I restart the Laptop and hit the F9 key, I see the Boot menu, and Ubuntu appears as the 2nd option, I select, hit Enter and UBUNTU boots successfully. Following advice on UBUNTU Forums, I installed (in UBUNTU) the Boot Repair Disk. Ran the repair option, but got a message that GRUB wasn't succesfully repaired and that having UBUNTU so far away from the beggining of the drive might be causing this issue. The Hard Disk is a 750GB drive, has 4 small partitions at the beginning 250MB, 100MB, etc., which are default Windows 8.1 recovery partitions, the 5th partition is the Windows NTFS partition, then partition #6 is where UBUNTU is installed. Windows partition is about 550GB, Ubuntu parition is 100GB. So, Ubuntu is about 578GB away from the beginning of the HDD.
Boot-repair-disk generated the file located in http://paste.ubuntu.com/7052620/. Basically I need a way to repair GRUB so I can boot Windows 8.1 or UBUNTU.
Also, if anyone can recommend a Graphical boot program I will appreciate it. In the past I used GAG which was graphical bootloader that allows to password protect certain options. For example, I only use UBUNTU, so I password protected, but Windows was the default with time options (so it boots after X amount of seconds) with no password. I used GAG 3 years ago in a WIndows 7/Ubuntu 11 dual boot (w/o UEFI or GPT). Not sure if GAG is still available or if it works with UEFI/GPT drives.
I then decided to try installing Ubuntu 12.04. It installed successfully, but, GRUB didn't install correctly, and the computer still boots to Windows 8.1 by using the default Windows boot-loader. In Windows, there is no option to add the Ubuntu partition. If I restart the Laptop and hit the F9 key, I see the Boot menu, and Ubuntu appears as the 2nd option, I select, hit Enter and UBUNTU boots successfully. Following advice on UBUNTU Forums, I installed (in UBUNTU) the Boot Repair Disk. Ran the repair option, but got a message that GRUB wasn't succesfully repaired and that having UBUNTU so far away from the beggining of the drive might be causing this issue. The Hard Disk is a 750GB drive, has 4 small partitions at the beginning 250MB, 100MB, etc., which are default Windows 8.1 recovery partitions, the 5th partition is the Windows NTFS partition, then partition #6 is where UBUNTU is installed. Windows partition is about 550GB, Ubuntu parition is 100GB. So, Ubuntu is about 578GB away from the beginning of the HDD.
Boot-repair-disk generated the file located in http://paste.ubuntu.com/7052620/. Basically I need a way to repair GRUB so I can boot Windows 8.1 or UBUNTU.
Also, if anyone can recommend a Graphical boot program I will appreciate it. In the past I used GAG which was graphical bootloader that allows to password protect certain options. For example, I only use UBUNTU, so I password protected, but Windows was the default with time options (so it boots after X amount of seconds) with no password. I used GAG 3 years ago in a WIndows 7/Ubuntu 11 dual boot (w/o UEFI or GPT). Not sure if GAG is still available or if it works with UEFI/GPT drives.