restore grub

[Karl Larsen]

David Fox wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Linda Vest Castanos <dcastanos at snowcrest.net>
>
>   
>> I'm not a Ubuntu-Linux guru and the commands below would work for ME,
>> which is from the link above.  I seem to lose my MBR approx twice a
>> year.  (big hassle)
>>     
>
> Here's another link that might be helpful :
>
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html#17
>
> although it does not specifically mention what exactly error 17 is but
> I'd assume you somehow hosed your grub info. This web page touts a
> "super grub disk" but there are other methods, including using your
> own linux live cd, system rescue cd, possibly manual editing of the
> mbr with grub.
>
> I haven't had to do this specifically because I only single boot, I
> almost never have another OS on the system, and I never had Windows
> :).
>
>   
    I think this user must re-load Windows about once a year. When you 
do this windows writes it's boot message in the Main Boot Record (MBR) 
and grub is broken. To fix this you need to re-load grub at the MBR and 
it will be good until you re-load windows again.


Karl


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