<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Hi <div><br></div><div>I'd be very grateful for a bit of advice regarding a Grub issue, please.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a dual boot desktop, running 10.04 LTS and Windows XP. I recently made the mistake of running a free Windows disk management tool in the XP partition which appeared to corrupt the MBR.</div><div><br></div><div>The result was that when I subsequently booted up I just got the "Grub Rescue" prompt. With a combination of research and trial-and-error I was able to get the PC to boot properly, with access to both Ubuntu and XP using the following commands at the "Grub Rescue" prompt:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title></title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="LibreOffice 3.3 (Linux)"> <style type="text/css">  </style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">set prefix=(hd0,5)/boot/grub</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> set root=(hd0,5)</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> insmod normal</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> normal</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">While I could type this in with every boot, you will appreciate that it would be a bit of a pain. Could anybody suggest a way of saving these commands so that they run automatically, thereby restoring my machine fully back to normal?</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Thanks.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Regards</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Nige</p></div> </div></body> </html>