No operating system will boot after attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 on a Lenovo T530

Question

I've had to retry this a million times, and it's doing my head in. Please help me.

I resized my partitions from within Windows 8, and disabled everything I was supposed to, I installed 13.04 from a multi-boot LiveUSB. Once installed, I could get into Ubuntu, but not Windows 8. After running boot-repair from Ubuntu on my LiveUSB, the machine boots into this error:

error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found.

And it gives me the grub-recovery thing.

How do I get this working? At the moment I can have only Windows installed, or only Ubuntu. I want both.

using 64bit image? for uefi you must use 64bit image – Web-E May 07 '13 at 15:56 — Web-E, May 07 '13 at 15:56
I am using a 64-bit image. – user155708 May 07 '13 at 15:59 — user155708, May 07 '13 at 15:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '13 at 15:16

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You have to follow this guide

Boot repair

to recover the installation of grub!

answered May 07 '13 at 15:16

sharkbait

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After re-installing Ubuntu, and then following that guide again, I got the same problem. grub-repair gave me this: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5641806. – user155708 May 07 '13 at 15:39
mmmm seems you have to reinstall grub in sdb5 – sharkbait May 07 '13 at 15:43
How do I do that? – user155708 May 07 '13 at 15:48
http://opensource-sidh.blogspot.it/2011/06/recover-grub-live-ubuntu-cd-pendrive.html – sharkbait May 07 '13 at 15:55
I can't follow the first step because it doesn't like GPT. Should I try this all again installing everything on the system that isn't GPT? – user155708 May 07 '13 at 15:57
You can try, I don't know if this work... – sharkbait May 07 '13 at 16:00
I can view the contents of both my Windows partition, and my Ubuntu partition. Will this let me do anything? – user155708 May 07 '13 at 16:41
Yes ;) you have to login as root – sharkbait May 07 '13 at 16:45
What can I do to fix this this way? What would I need to sign in as root to do? – user155708 May 07 '13 at 16:47

No operating system will boot after attempting to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows 8 on a Lenovo T530

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