Ubuntu 12.10 - Windows 8 Dual Boot (Tried boot-repair) - Dual OS option not showing

Question

As title says, this is my first time trying ubuntu. I have been trying since last week with continuous googling and searching, but still no luck.

I had Win8 x64 installed before, then tried installing Ubuntu 12.10 desktop (dual OS option). I tried like 10 times already, everytime it's showing installation complete, but when I restarted and boot from my HDD, dual boot option is not showing, directly to win8 startup

I installed Win8 on C: before. I had a 104GB free drive to install Linux to (it's installed already.. but the dual boot option is not showing)

In case it helps: Acer Aspire 4752, Intel Core i3, 2.30GHz, 4GB RAM, 64 Bit OS - Windows 8 Pro with Media Center.

This is the URL I got from the boot-repair: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1407018/ (it's not win vista, thou it seems showing so in the link).

Thanks a lot. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I really want to get my Linux installed.

Solution

Maybe this would help: try the boot repair CD.Boot with this CD and let repair the program your grub. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

Comments

[LovinBuntu]

You are affected by this bug: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1085908 Is your disk a SSD ? Please could you show some pictures of your BIOS ?

[AlexanderKaran]

Hey Ben, first thanks for the input. I tried accessing msconfig, but ubuntu is not there, simply windows8 only. I think there, the same question posted by karthik, he also replied the same. So, any idea?

[AlexanderKaran]

Hey Julien, I tried the solution. Unfortunately it's not working for me. The boot-repair gave me that url i posted before on the main question. Any other idea?

[Julien Chau]

I just reread your question. I suppose you have installed Ubuntu on its own separate partition on you HDD, or have you installed Ubuntu with wubi as a Windows program? You write that "Linux is installed" - I suppose you mean Ubuntu 12.10. Can you reach it?