GRUB Rescue

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Re: GRUB Rescue

#11 Post by Bill_TN »

Well as much help as most of you all have been, glad I could help a little bit in return.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#12 Post by Azrial »

Shawn wrote: this must be an Apple?
I don't have an "Apple"or iAnything! :lauging:
kode-niner wrote:I've used boot-repair-disk at least twice on some seriously hosed servers. It should do the trick. Good luck!
Thanks, I have tried it, but when I get to the splash screen it just keeps asking me for my USER Name and PASSWORD, but as this is a dual boot, Win7x64/Ubuntu x64 PC, there is no password at the GRUB boot Menu. It short, I do not believe that this repair option will work with a dual boot machine.

UPDATE: OK, I tried this with a FAILSAFE Option, and it fixed my MBR, but there is no mention of GRUB2 or Ubuntu Linux! I am unsure if Ubuntu is even still there.


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Re: GRUB Rescue

#13 Post by kode-niner »

Strange. boot-disk-repair does in fact support multi-boot systems and should detect them if they are not too corrupt. I think the user/password was root/root or root with no password. If you manage to get in instead of going through the failsafe option, you'll get to the boot repair utility that has options for re-creating GRUB.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#14 Post by Shawn »

Passwords on the repair utilities ..ugh.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#15 Post by kode-niner »

Shawn wrote:Passwords on the repair utilities ..ugh.
That's a silly thing to do but excusable if there were clearly available documentation, which there isn't.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#16 Post by SHEEPMAN! »

I've seen root/toor in places. Or root/[enter]no password IOW. (General comment not related to these disks)

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Re: GRUB Rescue

#17 Post by Azrial »

Well as I edited above, when I tried boot-repair-disk with the FAILSAFE Option, and it fixed my MBR, at least as far a Windows7. It no longer asked for a password, but it hosed my Ubuntu 15.04 installation!

GRUB2 and Ubuntu Linux are both gone. So, with Win7x64 now booting, I decided to follow the advice of my good friends here and try Mint 17, as it is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

Big mistake, very buggy, makes XP SP1 look "stable" and Cinnamon is always crashing and going into to "Fallback Mode" from which there is no way to shut down the PC. After all the phrase I have read for Mint, I am disappointed and surprised. But, as you all can't be wrong, I am now thinking that there is something wrong with this PC! It of course have the 2-3 generation old Ubuntu problem with nVidia Video cards!

The real problem is that I am going in the hospital Wednesday and this was supposed to be my "Entertainment PC" (Not a Toughbook, a desktop) hooked up to the bigscreen LCD and all. Well I have tonight and part of tomorrow to resolve this, we will see how it goes!

And as Jeff said, not complaining, just saying. But i did get both referenced programs in this thread to download, burn, boot and run! Just neither of them brought Ubuntu/GRUB2 back!
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#18 Post by Bill_TN »

tux utility? Not ringing any bells here. I just use these disks for repair. I also keep copies of Hiren's , UBCD , and that about covers it for my tool box. Keep thinking there's one more but can't quite remember. As for useing the programs....... Heck I have to look it all up each time.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#19 Post by Bill_TN »

Well Mint 17 is actually old and I think the latest is 17.3 other than the Nvidia issue, I've never had Cinn Mint fail me. There's always LXLE. It even comes with a few games. I run it on my I-mac. I have a few crapples but all have been cored and run Linux . I even have a hdd that is dual microcrap and mint cinn for the I-mac.
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Re: GRUB Rescue

#20 Post by Azrial »

Bill_TN wrote:Well Mint 17 is actually old and I think the latest is 17.3 other than the Nvidia issue, I've never had Cinn Mint fail me. There's always LXLE. It even comes with a few games. I run it on my I-mac. I have a few crapples but all have been cored and run Linux . I even have a hdd that is dual microcrap and mint cinn for the I-mac.
I am dual booting Win7x64 Home Premium and Linux Mint 17.3, codename "Rosa" with the Cinnamon GUI on a AMD Sempron x64 CPU with 4 GB of RAM.

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