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Ok, I know that this has been asked a thousand times, but I've spent the last 5 hours trying to setup my Toshiba Satellite to dual boot 14.04 and Win8.1 and I'm at the point where throwing the laptop off the window to test it's anti-gravity capabilities sounds like a pretty good idea.

So, to cut a long story short: Followed this guide: Installing Ubuntu Alongside a Pre-Installed Windows with UEFI Fastboot is disabled. UEFI is enabled. LiveCD works as it should. Installation is complete. After restart laptop boots immediately to PC. Boot-repair returns this http://paste.ubuntu.com/10147575/ . I am nostalgic of the times before EFI. Ah the times we had, when a linux installation would take less than 45 minutes. Anyway, if anyone could offer any advice, I would owe them a great debt (not to mention my sanity)

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GeMar
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  1. Boot Live CD / Live USB, select try Ubuntu
  2. Once it's loaded, open terminal CtrlAltT
  3. Do the following

sudo mount /dev/sda8 /mnt

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev

sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc

sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys

sudo chroot /mnt

NOTE: the /dev/sda8 is your Ubuntu partition, from what I see in your pastebin file. Double check that with lsblk command, and see if you recognize that partition, and it has the right size

  1. Do update-grub and then sudo grub-install /dev/sda
  2. Reboot

Try this, see what happens. Basically what we're doing here is installing grub on the boot sector of the hard drive, not just one partition /dev/sda8.

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Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
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When you boot up hold the SHIFT key. If Ubuntu installed correctly, GRUB should load and give you options for which OS you want to start. Try and post results.

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