how to Install ubuntu 14.04 dual boot with windows xp, windows 7 & windows 8

how to Install ubuntu 14.04 dual boot with windows xp, windows 7 & windows 8

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Firest Steps:
after installation fix grub loader
Download/Install the grub-customizer latest version.
This PPA contains the latest release of Grub Customizer.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Among the Grub Customizer features are:

  • Edit the menu entries (reorder, rename, add or remove entries)
  • Edit the contents of menu entries or create new ones (internally it edits the 40_custom)
  • Change the default boot entry
  • Change menu visibility and timeout
  • Disable recovery entries
  • Change GRUB resolution, menu colors or background image
  • GRUB repair & configuration using a Live CD
  • Advanced options like booting an ISO, changing kernel parameters and lots more
After installation launch 'Grub Customizer' from Dash and as you see in screenshot you will see this window(I unexpanded "Advanced options for Ubuntu")
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Then lets Start to answer the How to questions.

How to rename entries:

If you want to rename menu entries, under "List configuration" tab, first select the entry and right-click on it and select "Rename" from context menu. Then type new name and hit enter.
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Now we renamed both "Ubuntu > Lubuntu 14.04.1" and "Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1) to just "Windows 8.1".

How to change order of entries:

To reordering menu entries, do like above, first select entry and right-click on it and select "Move up/Move down" from context menu to move the entry to up/down. (Also you can use Up/Down arrow from tool-bar enter image description here )
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Now after renaming and reordering the entries we will have this list.
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Now last question: How to make an entry as a default:

After changing order of the menu entries, First entry will be as default entry. In this case yourWindows 8.1 will be default OS if you moved it to up and it's the first entry of the list. Or you can use "General settings" tab and select your "Windows 8.1" from default entry list box. see the screenshot:
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That's it. After you finished changes press "Save" (the icon under main menu) to save the changes.
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You need to start it as root with gksu grub-customizer – rubo77 Oct 7 '14 at 16:31
  
I couldn't launch 'Grub Customizer' from Dash because it needs root to run. So I started it from the console with gksu, which seemed to work at first, but in the end it doesn't seem to work any more, cause it generates crash reports. I tried changing the color but no effect on my grub ;( I installed it from the PPA – rubo77 Oct 7 '14 at 17:13 
  
@rubo77 You might want to purge it and then reinstall it. Sometimes that will clean things up. I've been happily using Grub Customizer for years and the only problems I have ever had were a glitch in Ubuntu 12.04 which the developer helped me get past and a problem where a newer distro in another partition changed the grub file formats so grub customizer wouldn't work from within the old distro. No crashes. – Joe Oct 8 '14 at 20:45
  
I just installed it and tried it only once, so what should there be cleaned up by a purge? Maybe it doesn't work on my 32-bit Ubuntu 14.04? – rubo77 Oct 8 '14 at 21:19
  
GRUB customizer is doing weird things (copying entries) and crashing all the time when I try moving entries. Any ideas? – Jenny O'Reilly Dec 29 '15 at 14:40


You need to install grub-customizer and rename the windows boot entry then change its properties so it boots first (easiest way is to just move it to the top of the boot menu). To install grub-customizer run these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
And a few screenshots of using the customizer: move it to default:right click menuwhen all is said and done
And Enjoy
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