I managed to fix this. I should have run "grub-install /dev/sda" at a moment instead of "/dev/sda3/" which lead to a corrupt mbr. I fixed this by clearing the mbr (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=811240): dd if=fakembr80.tx of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 and reinstalling grub: gptsync grub-install /dev/sda3 update-grub Sylvain.