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I have a new HP Pavilion 15 with windows 8.1, and want to have Ubuntu alongside it. I created an Ubuntu 14.04 liveDVD, disabled fast boot, and changed the boot order. Then I installed Ubuntu. After that the computer still went straight to Windows (when the DVD was not in), so I disabled secure boot (even though some web pages say it's not necessary - can I put it back?). After that I followed all the instructions in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release doesn't boot after being installed .

After the last step I got this link with tons of info.

All steps here completed without any error message, but still I go straight to Windows.

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Doron Shafrir
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  • maybe this is the solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/655011/windows-10-upgrade-kills-grub-and-boot-repair-doesnt-help/655279#655279 – DJCrashdummy Nov 19 '15 at 18:32

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Okay so there are are two things that could be happening here.

A) You mentioned secure boot, implying a UEFI system. You may have installed the BIOS boot version of GRUB.

B) You need to use a program such as EasyBCD to add a Linux entry into the Windows boot loader menu and make it visible on boot. Just Google EasyBCD for more info.

Hope this helps !!!

Forrest4096
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I have had problems with 14.04 on a newer laptop, but from some reading I found that 15.04 has the capability to install with secure boot enabled. I tried it two days ago and it worked just fine. I only disabled fast boot, but left secure boot enabled in UFEI. I have had success installing 14.04 after I disabled secure boot and fast startup. You might want to leave the UFEI in insecure boot and try to reinstall Ubuntu 14.04.

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Perhaps your Master Boot Records is damaged.

  1. Burn Ubuntu Live USB / DVD (You can do it via Unetbootin).
  2. Boot the machine in Live Ubuntu environment.

  3. Open up terminal and type

    sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair;

sudo apt-get update;

sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

  4. Once the boot-repair window pops up , click on recommended repair.

  5. Reboot. This might do the trick

Ravexina
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Mayur Kulkarni
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according to your report there is No boot loader installed...

you have to (re)install GRUB, the default boot loader of Ubuntu.

please have a look at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Installing

DJCrashdummy
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  • The page you sent me suggests in my case to use boot-repair. I already did that - this is what the link I put instructed me to do. I did it again, this time choosing the recommended option, and got this: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11714911/ Nothing seems to have changed. I also tried reinstalling Ubuntu completely. I'm new to this, maybe I miss something obvious. – Doron Shafrir Jun 14 '15 at 18:43
  • please disable fast-boot, secureBoot and every other "special" uefi/windows-feature! - or simply try BIOS/legacy-mode! -- further and detailed instructions: http://askubuntu.com/a/228069/354350 – DJCrashdummy Jun 15 '15 at 08:36