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Dual boot windows 8 and Ubuntu with Windows 8 Boot manager

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http://askubuntu.com – I have two partitions on my hard-didk , I have installed ubuntu on my 1st partition and windows 8 later on another partition.Now i can only boot into windows 8 because it doesn't recognize Ubuntu. How would i dual boot my PC without using grub . I would like using Windows 8 boot manager as its pretty neat. This is what i have tried : I tried using easyBCD but it doesn't work.It causes the boot manager to switch to windows 7 Boot Manager . EasyBCD creates a C:/NST/AutoNeoGrub0.mbr file . As EasyBCD was causing the boot manager to switch i created a manual entry to the BCD store uisng windo (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 12/20/2012

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