[Ubuntu-US-CA] Linux rules and probably has gained a new user

[kdemarest]

Hey Bob:

Very cool, i'll have to remember this in case someone else has the same
problem.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Adrian Petrescu <apetresc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice quick thinking! :)
>
> On Friday, October 8, 2010, Robert Lewis <bob.l.lewis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had an old friend call who had his MBR fail so he couldn't boot.
> > He had no MS floppy and no CD/DVD media for MS to use the
> > Recovery option.  Here is how I fixed it for him.  He is in Indiana.
> >
> > I had him come up on Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD.
> > I then had him install "teamviewer" which gave me remote access to his
> > machine even though it was a Live CD.   Teamviewer installed into ram.
> >
> > I then had him use Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center and download
> > a program called "mbr".    I read the destructions and then typed:
> > install-mbr /dev/sda
> >
> > and he rebooted and everything worked again.
> >
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