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GRUB Rescue | Repair MBR | Master Boot Record

March 22, 2013 by Ryan McCormick Leave a Comment

Grub RescueSince my GRUB Rescue issue, I have been advancing my understanding of storage partitioning and boot methods.

A while back I had acquired an old laptop with Windows Vista installed. I cleaned everything up for my purposes and decided to install a dual boot Kubuntu environment.

Original: How to Reinstall Kubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot on Dual Boot System

I downloaded the image, burned to a CD with ImgBurn and completed my installation. Booted back up and everything was working fine. It wasnt until I decided to add a few extras such as LAMP where I ran into problems. I attempted to remove features I had accidentally installed, but like a total n00b ran SUDO on removing a large directory of critical files – CRAP!

At this point, I needed to repair my installation. I decided to uninstall and re-install Kubuntu and was well on my way looking for solutions that were looking for problems.

I ended up corrupting my master boot record and was having problems getting back into Windows (let alone re-installing Kubuntu)

Since this problem, I have been researching the use of the GRUB Rescue prompt and steps for repairing GRUB. For some reason, the GRUB 2 rescue environment is not well documented.

GRUB Boot Repair Tools

Here are some tools I found while researching this issue:

  • How to Boot Windows From GRUB Rescue Prompt
  • Hiren’s Boot CD
  • Ubuntu Grub Boot Repair
  • Boot Repair for Debian Based Linux Systems
  • Super GRUB Disk

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Filed Under: Linux/Unix Tips, Open Source Tagged With: grub rescue, MBR Repair

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