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I installed Ubuntu 13.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 8 preinstalled with great difficulty. To make it run, I edited the boot command by adding the following line:

acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor.

I was able to boot once into Ubuntu after running boot-repair. But then subsequent times onwards, I get stuck with a blank screen in spite of giving the above options. I ran boot repair a couple of times more using a live disk and a live USB. It still gets stuck.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6339188/

I've noticed a few things. I've got a lot of partitions on my disk now. There is a partition for Windows 8, a partition for Lenovo backup files, 2 partitions (around 200GB each) for miscellaneous purposes and one more partition for Ubuntu. Everything else, I'm not sure how they've appeared. Can anyone guide me?

karel
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1.First run this command on ubuntu,to know proper chaining was done or not,

sudo os-prober

IF it shows like this /dev/sda1:Windows 8 (loader):Windows:chain,then proceed to step 2.

2.Run the windows installation disk,select repair option and open the command prompt.Run the below commands on the displayed command prompt

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
Avinash Raj
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