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After installing Ubuntu 14.04.3 on a HP Pavilion G6 that had windows 8.1 pre-installed, I am unable to see the grub menu. I can see two entries of Ubuntu if I hit the Esc key while booting and press F9 to go into boot menu. Ubuntu boots fine if either entry is selected. (note:Secure boot is disabled in BIOS. Legacy is also turned off.)

First I tried boot-repair (default) which announced that it has successfully repaired the boot, but the situation did not change.

Then I tried the 'bcdedit' method shown here: Grub not showing on startup for Windows 8.1 Ubuntu 13.10 Dual boot I now find 4 Ubuntu entries in the boot-menu, but still grub does not show up automatically.

Is there anything else I could try? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Sumeet Deshmukh
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blackpearl
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I finally solved the problem by running boot-repair once again in advanced mode with 'Backup and Rename EFI Files' ticked.

blackpearl
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There are 3 things you have to do :

  1. Disable Windows fast startup.

Open Windows Control Panel - Power Settings - uncheck Fast startup.

  1. Disable Windows hibernation.

Open command prompt as administrator and execute this command : 

powercfg /h off
  1. Set Ubuntu to be the default booting operating system in BIOS.
cl-netbox
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This is not a big issue.

Launch Terminal (CTRL + ALT + T) and run:

sudo update-grub

That should fix the issue.

ARJUN.PRADEEP. M.
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