Comment 254 for bug 1289977

> I haven't seen anyone report this on a fresh install. It is always after an upgrade,

That's untrue and you know it.
There are a few comments on this very page reporting the issue on fresh install. And you did see them; I seem to remember you said you just don't believe them (I'm too lazy to look for it now), but that's a different thing.

Anyway, as already discussed, there is clearly some bug, whether it is in Grub or in Ubuntu, if a perfectly working dual boot (whether it was a "fresh install" or it was "tinkered" because that is the _only_ way to get a dual boot with windows 8 to run, as the official installer and all the officially documented methods fail to produce a working dual boot installation) gets bricked by a distupgrade without warning. The maintainer of the Ubuntu package himself agreed to that.

By the way, talking about @cjwatson, I'm still wating for an answer to whether or not those of us who were bitten by the bug and and fixed the broken boot can safely install the updates that have since been released, and whether the upgrade to 14.10 will bite us again.