Restore Ubuntu MBR

[andrea phillips]

Hi Derek if you can since you are a nice person help me with my sound not working and what to i use uinstead of java for games . thanks

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote: Linda Vest Castanos wrote:

> I found the following below on a Ubuntu site.  Will this work for error
> 17? If not, can I restored Window XP MBR (done this many times), and
> will it work then?  I seem to lose my MBR approx. twice a year.  There
> is lots of info on this matter on the Internet, but this seems to be the
> most simple method for ME. I am not a Ubuntu-Linux guru
> thanks Dennis

People like to complicate things :-)

> 
> 1. Boot the Desktop/Live CD.
> 2. Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)

Good so far.

> 3. Start grub as root with the following command :

???

I just do:

# sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt
(that might actually already be mounted somewhere)
# sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda

Now, I'm not absolutely certain that fixes an error 17 - it's what I use
when I've b0rked grub, but it _is_ what the more complicate how-to you
posted does.
-- 
derek


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