Ubuntu – GRUB skipped in dual boot

OP posted:

I burned a RescuTux Disk and used it to recover grub2 (simplest and easiest way for me. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/rescatuxdownloads/

To boot Windows 8, you need to select

Windows 8 (loader) (on /dev/sda4)

I understand that you want to tidy up the menu. This can be done most easily with the program grub-customizer. It's available from ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer (Click here for instructions on using PPAs.)

So to install it on your Ubuntu system, run the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Then, launch grub-customizer. After it has loaded your configuration and detected all locally installed bootable stuff, you should see a list like this:

You can rename items by double-clicking them.
To create submenus (folders) to group several similar menu points to one entry, select all items you want to group and chose Create submenu from the right-click context menu or the Edit menu.

Changes will not be applied until you click the Save button, or close the window and chose Save & Exit from the appearing dialogue.