[vox-tech] Speaking of no boot.......

[Alex Mandel]

Reinstall Grub from the rescue disk. There's lots of how to do this on
the Ubuntu help website.

Alex

On 06/14/2011 08:04 AM, jimbo wrote:
> Oops, sorry about the mispelling of you name Dr Scronek.  Didn't mean no 
> disrespect.
> 
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> From: "jimbo" <evesautomotive at wavecable.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:59 AM
> Subject: [vox-tech] Speaking of no boot.......
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> 
>> I too have had a problem with my Linux drive and as Dr. Schronek I am not
>> comfortable with the whole shell/bash thing.  Did I say that right?
>>
>> I did notice something very interesting though...I d/l the latest and
>> greatest version of Ubuntu and burned image to disk.  I then went to live 
>> X
>> mode and used the option of repair instead of install.  It worked and I
>> found that I now have a working Ubuntu OS.  Problem was that since I 
>> didn't
>> change the boot order of my hard drives in my bois it used the windblows
>> drive and installed grub wiping out the other bootloader.  Now you might
>> think that this is a good thing but my wife uses windows and I sure didn't
>> want to mess things up.  I love my wife but more important I like a 
>> peaceful
>> coexistance with her.
>>
>> I repaired the windblows mbr and then changed the boot in bios.  I 
>> repaired
>> Ubuntu again but it didn't work.  It still will not boot into Ubuntu.
>>
>> It appears that I have a working OS but the bootloader is somehow messed 
>> up.
>> Is there an easy fix?
>>
>> Jimbo
>> Eve's Automotive
>> http://evesautomotive.com
>>
>>
>>
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