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My laptop normally shows the GRUB boot menu with options to boot to Ubuntu or with windows boot manager. I pressed escape by accident and then typed in exit in the GRUB command line. Then I pressed esc as instructed in the EFI to shut down. After restarting my laptop, it took me straight to windows 8. Now I can't get to GRUB when I start up my hardware.

I tried booting with my Ubuntu CD but there doesn't seem to be any repair option.

How do I make GRUB appear by default again?

EDIT: I was able to access GRUB through the UEFI boot options, but it still doesn't appear by default. I have to get to the UEFI through windows settings every time.

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Xenial Sasquatch
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That's unfortunate pal.. Looks like Ubuntu's bootloader has been removed from the Master boot record. You can try this out

  • Disable Fast Startup, and shut down your computer then boot up again.
  • Try booting using a Live CD and go to Terminal & reinstall grub for your drive in this way from the Live CD sudo grub-install /dev/sdX where X is the letter of your drive.
  • Alternatively check this article or this or this thread out.
  • If all fail, perhaps you can create a thread on this forum

Best of luck pal.

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Zuko
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It turns out accessing EFI on "Windows 8 hardware" car reorder the boot sequence. I solved my problem by reinstalling Windows 8 (settings > general > re-install windows) and then Ubuntu.

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