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I have Ubuntu in dual boot alongside the original W8 install. My grub shows a ton of options. The first one loads Ubuntu alright. In the past I tried loading w8 (which I hardly ever use) and after loading W8 and restating the machine it somehow managed to get grub disabled. Which option loads W8, and is there a way to clean up grub to show only relevant options?

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  • That's normal, except all the weird "EFI" options and "System setup", and the double Windows (it shows only Windows Recovery Environment in 15.10 and earlier, on before-alpha of 16.04 it shows Windows 10.) And "Windows UEFI bkpbootmgfw.efi" AND "Windows Boot UEFI loader" and finally, "Previous Linux versions" which i never saw... – Star OS Dec 07 '15 at 19:19
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    Possible duplicate of How can I edit my Grub bootloader entries (Hide, Rename, Remove)? Preferably doing it manually, and not with a program – s3lph Dec 07 '15 at 19:20
  • @StarOS under "Previous versions" you have the options to boot older kernels, in case the current one doesn't work properly (e.g. after a kernel update) – s3lph Dec 07 '15 at 19:20
  • @the_Seppi It's not a duplicate, it's asking why are there so many options (50% of them i have no clue what it is), and i didn't know the previous thing. – Star OS Dec 07 '15 at 19:22
  • Those entries are from Boot-Repair. Boot-Repair creates a 25_custom grub for any .efi files found in the ESP - efi system partition. Since HP has tons of recovery/repair .efi files you get a long list. Some other vendors have those files in a hidden efi boot partition that they can access if needed. You can probably delete all of 25_custom or edit out most entries. Just like this except use 25_custom, not 40_custom: http://askubuntu.com/questions/659528/grub-menu-with-windows-10-and-ubuntu-14-04/659910#659910 – oldfred Dec 07 '15 at 19:47
  • @oldfred: Your comment would make a good answer. – David Foerster Dec 10 '15 at 08:56

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To boot Windows 8, you need to select

Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4)

I understand that you want to tidy up the menu. This can be done most easily with the program grub-customizer. It's available from ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer Launchpad logo (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.)

So to install it on your Ubuntu system, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Then, launch grub-customizer. After it has loaded your configuration and detected all locally installed bootable stuff, you should see a list like this:

grub-customizer screenshot

You can rename items by double-clicking them.
To create submenus (folders) to group several similar menu points to one entry, select all items you want to group and chose Create submenu from the right-click context menu or the Edit menu.

Changes will not be applied until you click the Save button, or close the window and chose Save & Exit from the appearing dialogue.

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