On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 03:38:27 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So what the hell does grub-install do? How is my system able to boot > into grub at all? And, most importantly, how do I boot Windows 8 from > grub now?
Since your computer has EFI support, you can use EFI boot for both windows and linux. It's still possible to boot windows from grub use chainloader, but you can also choose to boot into windows or linux from EFI boot manager.So chainloader is not necessary. You can find useful information here http://www.rodsbooks.com/