tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post7132477967027520890..comments2024-02-02T17:44:31.577+05:30Comments on My Geek Opinions - A Geek's Guide to Technology: Install Boot-Repair in Ubuntu 11.04 (Reinstalling GRUB in Ubuntu Made Easy!)Gayanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-52476894107084783132013-10-20T11:47:52.189+05:302013-10-20T11:47:52.189+05:30@Anonymous,
You're welcome (sorry about the l...@Anonymous,<br /><br />You're welcome (sorry about the late response). Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-48890496501675200132013-09-28T02:00:20.524+05:302013-09-28T02:00:20.524+05:30Thanks for this article, Gayan !
I have been spen...Thanks for this article, Gayan ! <br />I have been spending a day trying to get grub installed on a 4K sector disk, after migrating and aligning partitions from a 512byte sector disk.<br />Boot-repair solved it all instantly, saving me from a fatal headache.... Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-75331495681115462642013-09-20T09:10:04.437+05:302013-09-20T09:10:04.437+05:30@A Simple Man,
You're welcome.@A Simple Man,<br /><br />You're welcome. Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-17716382785801733242013-08-26T09:41:44.959+05:302013-08-26T09:41:44.959+05:30I thought my little HP Mini was dead. I would onl...I thought my little HP Mini was dead. I would only boot into mem test and stay there. It sat collecting dust then I trew in a liveusb and it booted from that so I new it was software and not hardware. I found your site using duckduckgo. Spent a few minute ad my little netbook is alive again and no lost data or need to reinstall. Thank You!A SImple Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345819742848559819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-50227323116511315622013-05-23T19:08:35.788+05:302013-05-23T19:08:35.788+05:30I use Ubuntu on my apple Macbook Pro. I've bee...I use Ubuntu on my apple Macbook Pro. I've been using Ubuntu 9.04 for years and loving it. It sounds like today I need to reinstall GRUB though. Here is my description of the problem:<br /><br />My MBP is set up with rEFIt, so when you boot up it first goes to the rEFIt menu screen where you select OSX or Linux. If you select Linux (which I do 99% of the time), it then goes to the standard GRUB menu screen, where upon selecting Ubuntu (the only OS set up there), it boots up into Ubuntu. This morning out of the blue when I boot up and select Linux at the rEFIt screen, it acts as though a GRUB menu screen is about to appear. But instead of that, it just gives a black screen with the words "GRUB" appearing in the upper left hand corner of the screen. So I am guessing that perhaps GRUB became corrupted somehow. What do I have to do to get GRUB working again? (This is urgent-- I can't do any of my work until GRUB works, so I can get into Ubuntu.) Thank you!Pareshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18189146035872487446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-60515045860702476832012-05-01T10:25:55.332+05:302012-05-01T10:25:55.332+05:30@hfrankjr,
Well, I'm not an expert on Virtual...@hfrankjr,<br /><br />Well, I'm not an expert on Virtualization, so cannot say much friend. Sorry about that :).Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-47947083264130399102012-05-01T06:03:47.153+05:302012-05-01T06:03:47.153+05:30My system is a laptop running windows 7 as the hos...My system is a laptop running windows 7 as the host for virtualbox with ubuntu 11.10 as the guest. Almost as soon as I click Start in vbox manager memtest starts up and I'm dead in the water. How can I access grub in this situation to repair it? I think memtest got started when I did a kernal change in startup manager.hfrankjrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00807946760828855881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-58557157401532365002012-04-25T05:27:55.068+05:302012-04-25T05:27:55.068+05:30@Anonymous,
I'm glad you found it useful!.@Anonymous, <br /><br />I'm glad you found it useful!.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-7823020078652769592012-04-25T01:41:10.689+05:302012-04-25T01:41:10.689+05:30Great article! I just followed the steps, ran the ...Great article! I just followed the steps, ran the boot repair wizard, and the computer started up again perfectly! Looks like it was a simple case of an update corrupting the boot loader. Thanks a million!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-159169014965576832012-04-22T08:04:01.446+05:302012-04-22T08:04:01.446+05:30@Anonymous,
You are welcome.@Anonymous,<br /><br />You are welcome.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-4631119566633024312012-04-22T01:38:40.014+05:302012-04-22T01:38:40.014+05:30Thank you so much for this. This article saved me ...Thank you so much for this. This article saved me when I accidently deleted my grub partition, a day before starting a new job..<br /><br />I used a Ubuntu live usb to do this. Just wondering is there anyway to "save" the bootrepair app to the USB so it can be used again without connecting to the internet to redownload it?<br /><br />Thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-3586386771783757032012-04-19T06:04:00.473+05:302012-04-19T06:04:00.473+05:30@CK,
No problemo :)@CK,<br /><br />No problemo :)Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-56416825795278118172012-04-19T04:45:27.992+05:302012-04-19T04:45:27.992+05:30Thanks for the article! Previously, I just use ms-...Thanks for the article! Previously, I just use ms-sys, however, it is no longer in the repos for ubuntu!!! My last live usb for fixing Windows MBR was probably 10.04, so I'm not sure when ubuntu stopped ms-sys.<br /><br />Anyhow, thanks so much. This is needed when I "reflash" a new HDD onto a computer... I just dd file contents and fix the MBR and on with life.Chris Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011049657235604146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-80319632233739714552012-03-20T20:05:55.442+05:302012-03-20T20:05:55.442+05:30@ Anonymous,
Well, unlike in the past, in recent ...@ Anonymous,<br /><br />Well, unlike in the past, in recent versions of GNU/Linux, the "sda" refers to your HDD rather than the Flash drive (flash drive is referred using the "sdb" device name, by default).<br /><br />So I think that, "dd" has erased the MBR of your HDD rather than of the USB drive. <br /><br />And I think, yes, you could use "Boot-Repair" tool as explained in the article to fix it.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-11246009250532917282012-03-20T11:12:32.834+05:302012-03-20T11:12:32.834+05:30While trying to format a flash drive, I rushed int...While trying to format a flash drive, I rushed into using some commands (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda).I was not sure if it was working, so I forced kill the terminal window before logging off. When I tried to boot my laptop later, I get a message that no boot sector found.<br /><br />Is it possible to fix it, if not then is it possible to get my data from the diskAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-27437855672629649002012-01-22T08:22:58.069+05:302012-01-22T08:22:58.069+05:30@Anonymous,
"Great tool!" ... I know! ...@Anonymous, <br /><br />"Great tool!" ... I know! :D. lol.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-46482361943574474542012-01-21T17:25:41.685+05:302012-01-21T17:25:41.685+05:30WOW! This worked PERFECTLY! I just finished a trip...WOW! This worked PERFECTLY! I just finished a triple-boot (Lubuntu 11.04, Mint 11 LXDE, and CrunchBang Statler) on my Asus 1215, then did a little bit of resizing with gParted. I don't know what I did wrong, but I got the No Partition error. ~PANIC~ Discovered and downloaded Boot Repair ISO on my desktop machine, created a bootable version with UNetbootin. Fired it up on the Asus, clicked the first button "Recommended Repair", and moments later, I got my triple-boot Asus back...like nothing ever happened. Great tool!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-32141667526883280122012-01-18T07:56:45.120+05:302012-01-18T07:56:45.120+05:30@Anonymous,
You are welcome.@Anonymous, <br /><br />You are welcome.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-15389813961263828982012-01-17T22:26:13.152+05:302012-01-17T22:26:13.152+05:3012-01-2012
Deleted an Ubuntu install and had Grub ...12-01-2012<br />Deleted an Ubuntu install and had Grub errors.<br />This worked like a charm!! Many thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-67455320532330755162012-01-07T22:31:10.485+05:302012-01-07T22:31:10.485+05:30@Neeraj,
Well, as far as I know the Wubi (the ins...@Neeraj,<br /><br />Well, as far as I know the Wubi (the installer that installs Ubuntu inside Windows file system) Ubuntu installer does not use GRUB. Instead it edits the existing MS Windows "boot.ini" file (and I've never tried that myself either). <br /><br />So I don't think there's anything that Boot-repair can do here since there's no GRUB to begin with. <br /><br />The best thing that you can do now is to uninstall the Ubuntu installation and try doing a re-installation. <br /><br />If that doesn't still work and you'd wanna install Ubuntu, then I humbly advice you to install it the standard way (having a separate partition, with GRUB, etc) which should work almost all the time. <br /><br />Good luck.<br /><br />PS: You can find more about Wubi installer from the below links as well ...<br /><br />https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi<br /><br />https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuideGayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-9813087730969684672012-01-07T13:12:06.702+05:302012-01-07T13:12:06.702+05:30http://paste.ubuntu.com/795741/
I made a live us...http://paste.ubuntu.com/795741/<br /><br /><br />I made a live usb to install ubuntu-10.04.3-desktop-i386 using<br />Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.7.6. I ran it, and clicked on install<br />inside windows. After some processing, I was given an option to reboot<br />my pc either now or later. I clicked on later, and when I rebooted, I<br />didn't have an option to go to Ubuntu.<br /><br />I installed boot repair via terminal method as given on<br />https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair<br /><br />Then a clicked on recommended repair. It did its work, but when I<br />rebooted, I still don't have an option to boot into ubuntu.<br />Boot-repair displayed the link http://paste.ubuntu.com/795741/Neerajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412508619928126163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-26614600196274138402012-01-05T19:36:06.402+05:302012-01-05T19:36:06.402+05:30@Anonymous,
ell "clean-gui" is automat...@Anonymous, <br /><br />ell "clean-gui" is automatically installed with "boot-repair". But I'm guessing is that perhaps you were trying to install it while "YannUbuntu" (the developer) was updating his PPA. <br /><br />Try installing boot-repair after sometime (few mins or an hour for instance). <br /><br />As long as you've added the boot-repair PPA to Ubuntu these packages should be automatically installed. So as far as I know there's very little we can do about it. <br /><br />But you can try to install it manually by using the below command (the boot-repair PPA must be added to Ubuntu first)<br /><br />sudo apt-get install clean-gui<br /><br />If this succeeds, then put the boot-repair installation command (as shown in the article) and try proceeding. <br /><br />If this is simply some other issue (bug or something beyond my knowledge) then you might wanna go to the below link (PPA of boot-repair) and have a loot at "Bugs" and "Answers" tabs or you can put together a question yourself as well. <br /><br />Perhaps someone is having the same issues and who knows you might find your answer there if waiting few mins doesn't work. Good luck. <br /><br />Here's the link = https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntuGayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-10642373803420530182012-01-05T19:23:07.057+05:302012-01-05T19:23:07.057+05:30hello friend, i am using ubuntu 11.04 and i am hav...hello friend, i am using ubuntu 11.04 and i am having trouble with install/remove package from ubuntu software center due to some boot-repair problems...and also i checked for the exact problem using command "dpkg --configure -a" as a root-user and i am getting error as like below:<br /><br />dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of boot-repair:<br />boot-repair depends on clean-gui; however:<br />Package clean-gui is not installed.<br />dpkg: error processing boot-repair (--configure):<br />dependency problems - leaving unconfigured<br />Errors were encountered while processing:<br />boot-repair<br /><br />So, please help me out to solve this problem.<br /><br />Thanks & Regards,<br />RajAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-60948313281130585422011-12-22T17:52:47.537+05:302011-12-22T17:52:47.537+05:30@Yann,
You are welcome :).
I guess I'd keep...@Yann,<br /><br />You are welcome :). <br /><br />I guess I'd keep the title just for now (traffic purposes, etc ;-) ). But will change it in the near future though, lol.Gayanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06101505389838342544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1340824761566000730.post-80624079754165520152011-12-22T16:07:30.345+05:302011-12-22T16:07:30.345+05:30Thanks Gayan!
(by-the-way, you can also update th...Thanks Gayan!<br /><br />(by-the-way, you can also update the title: Boot-Repair is available for any Ubuntu version, currently from 10.04 to 12.04 ! )Yannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335571912666038239noreply@blogger.com