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I have gone through several answers listed and had a look at quite a few forums already. I understand that the root cause is the Windows 8 GRUB. When I check msconfig, it does not populate UBUNTU. My question is, is there any way to overwrite windows GRUB with Ubuntu?

AND also for background, I was running windows 7 and ubuntu dual. I upgraded 7 to 8 and have been having this problem ever since. Ubuntu was my primary os so it's pretty fail of me to simply upgrade to win 8 like this. However, i want to try and get ubuntu's grub to be the primary loader so that I don't have to reimage my OS partition.

Any help is most appreciated.

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Try following the directions here. – Alex L. Dec 11 '12 at 2:17
Thank you very much. This is the process I was looking for. – Dead_vader Dec 11 '12 at 2:37
Hi, did this solution work? What I mean is that will Win8 boot from GRUB? I thought it needed a signed loader or something. I'm thinking of upgrading my office laptop from Win7 to Win8. But I am dual-booting it with Ubuntu. We have projects that needs to be on Windows thus I have both OS. Please, let me know your results. – Marky Dec 12 '12 at 8:18

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