I've read that Win8 will only work on UEFI based systems. Was the install of grub UEFI enabled, do you know? It sounds like an entry in the efi menu has not be added or the efi/bios is not recognizing the entry. Also, some laptops have been known to be bricked (some Samsungs) by attempted UEFI installations. Some googling about your specific laptop to see if anyone has had success installing any Linux Distribution would be a good idea.
<edit> Come to think of it, I think those laptops were actually netbooks, but I hope you get my hint that perhaps you need to search for evidence of:
1) someone successfully install linux on that laptop
2) information on how they did so
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Last edited by j_v; 09-02-2013 at 01:54 PM.
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