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Old July 2nd, 2013, 04:43 AM
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Question boot ubuntu from windows 8

I have win 8 win7 and xp currently bootable from the win 8 bootloader but Ubuntu will not boot it says

when I choose it. I don't want to use grub I like the original blue win8 bootloader I want Ubuntu to boot correctly from it
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Old July 2nd, 2013, 06:55 AM
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Think you are going to have to change your ideas and perhaps use the grub boot loader. It can be used to boot any operating system, but the same does not apply to M$ products that will not normally boot non M$ systems.

Probably a hack you can perform, but I don't know it, sorry.
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Old July 2nd, 2013, 09:55 AM
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try easybcd its free for home use.

http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/
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