GRUB Rescue

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Azrial
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GRUB Rescue

#1 Post by Azrial »

So the other night I installed "Cheeze" and a new camera that I had picked up from a thrift store. The camera did not work, so there is 17 cents I will never see again...

I then watched several YouTube videos. I decided to try the camera quickly under Win7 on this dual boot computer before throwing the camera in the trash. I was one of the old Logitecs that had the highpass filter you could tear out and get some cheap night vision.

When I tried to reboot the machine into Windows7 it wanted to go into recovery mode. I said no and restarted. Evidently this was a mistake as the system now comes up in a new useless, as most of the commands I found online do not work, GRUB Rescue Menu!

I have heard that there is a tool out there that will resolve this problem, but have failed to locate it yet. Any experience here.

To be honest, in the last week, I have had Ubuntu 15.05 crash 2 healthy computers. I am beginning to doubt the stability of this OS! I know that is not an LTS version, but still, I have come to expect more from Ubuntu Linux!

Really, just venting! :mad:
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#2 Post by kode-niner »

I've used boot-repair-disk at least twice on some seriously hosed servers. It should do the trick.

Good luck!
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#3 Post by Shawn »

boot it like this?

Image

this must be an Apple?

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Re: GRUB Rescue

#4 Post by Bill_TN »

Try this. I usually have a disk of it handy. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rescatux
I've also used it to change boot order for w7 and linux dual boots.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#5 Post by mklym »

When I try to download any of the disc images I get 'Problem loading page'. With the link Bill posted, the download is a torrent but when loaded into the torrent client, shows no seeds or leachers. I can load web pages but can not download. Even tried disabling firewall with no improvement. Anyone else having the same problem? Thanks.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#6 Post by Bill_TN »

Having no issues here. This the google drive link for rescue a tux. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8--grh ... ef=2&pli=1

This is the source forge link. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/projec ... irror=ufpr

and the source forge for super grub. https://sourceforge.net/projects/superg ... p_redirect

Just down loaded each myself. The source forge rescue a tux takes the longest. 6 min to fully download here. But also running 3 other machines with updates ect at this moment for customer repairs.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#7 Post by Bill_TN »

Wow for some reason it took a few tries to get the sourceforge link for rescueatux to copy right to the forum page. The others worked fine when I rechecked them but that one took a couple of copy and paste reeddits to get it right. I must be getting old.
I use either one to fix boot issues on dual boot machines.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#8 Post by mklym »

Thanks. Downloading the copy on google docs.

Kode-niner's links still give errors. I will try them again later.

Thanks Bill.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#9 Post by Bill_TN »

No prob. Just be sure to read documentation on how to use. Enjoy.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#10 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

Launched from Super Grub.

Thanks for the links Bill.

As usual W7 does not like other programs controlling the menu. 0x000025 and 0x00000001 errors....which I could fix with a W7 disk but I want to fix it my way.

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