Dual Boot with Pre installed Windows 8

[matt154]

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop with windows 8 pre installed. I followed every guide I could find on the internet. Now the laptop boots directly into windows 8. I figured out how to get into Ubuntu by shuting down windows to access the uefi settings then it lets me choose if I want to boot the OS Manager, UEFI DVD or CD, or Ubuntu. So I choose Ubuntu and it boot fine. I ran boot-repair and clicked on created boot info summary; it gave me this http://paste.ubuntu.com/8855476/ which is my boot order. I was hoping someone could look at it and tell me what is the problem. The summary is below. Disregard anything but sda


Boot Info Script e7fc706 + Boot-Repair extra info [Boot-Info 23Dec2013]


============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================

=> Windows 7/8/2012 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
=> Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc.
=> No boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde.

sda1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Windows 8/2012: FAT32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /EFI/Acronis/asrm.efi /EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi
/EFI/ubuntu/MokManager.efi /EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi
/EFI/ubuntu/shimx64.efi
/EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/CryptRSA.efi
/EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/CryptRSA32.efi
/EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/HpBiosUpdate.efi
/EFI/HP/BIOSUpdate/HpBiosUpdate32.efi
/EFI/HP/SystemDiags/CryptRSA.efi
/EFI/HP/SystemDiags/CryptRSA32.efi
/EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiags.efi
/EFI/HP/SystemDiags/SystemDiags32.efi
/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi
/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgr.efi
/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/memtest.efi

sda2: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system:
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed: mount: unknown filesystem type ''

sda3: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 8/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /bootmgr /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda4: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ext4
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab

sdb1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: SYSLINUX 4.07 2013-07-25
Boot sector info: Syslinux looks at sector 60372 of /dev/sdb1 for its
second stage. SYSLINUX is installed in the /uui
directory. No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi

sdc1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:

sde1: __________________________________________________ ________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows 8/2012: NTFS
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files:

============================ Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sda1 1 625,142,447 625,142,447 ee GPT


GUID Partition Table detected.

Partition Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors System
/dev/sda1 821,248 1,353,727 532,480 EFI System partition
/dev/sda2 1,353,728 1,615,871 262,144 Microsoft Reserved Partition (Windows)
/dev/sda3 1,615,872 562,227,199 560,611,328 Data partition (Windows/Linux)
/dev/sda4 562,227,200 582,227,967 20,000,768 Swap partition (Linux)
/dev/sda5 582,227,968 625,141,759 42,913,792 Data partition (Linux)

Drive: sdb __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sdb: 31.6 GB, 31625052160 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3844 cylinders, total 61767680 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 2,048 61,767,679 61,765,632 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


Drive: sdc __________________________________________________ ___________________

Disk /dev/sdc: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1936 cylinders, total 31116288 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start Sector End Sector # of Sectors Id System

/dev/sdc1 8,192 31,116,287 31,108,096 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)




Can anyone help??

[ajgreeny]

You have not shown all the output from boot-repair, so it's difficult to know what the problem might be, so please run it again and copy back here the link to the report that it gives, or if you must copy the report again, please put it in code tags (see my signature for how to do that).

[oldfred]

Your problem is that it is an HP. What model?

HP has modified UEFI to only boot a system in UEFI mode with Windows in the description. But we have several work arounds for HP.

Several options that others have posted that work:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234019

Other HP's, most manually renamed files like bootx64.efi.

It seems hp firmware do not allow you to boot anything other than windows. Hence no ubuntu option in the UEFI. To work around it
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2227889
1) press esc key while booting to access start up menu 2) press F9 for boot devices menu.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218154
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2227889
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/346257/install-alongside-windows-8-is-not-working
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2167063
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2123975
HP 4545s Secure boot off, manually copy files.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2133796
HP Manually renamed files to make it work.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2131886