How to restore GRUB?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Jan 24 02:34:31 UTC 2008


Peter Garrett wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:55:38 -0400
> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
>> John Leonard wrote:
>> 
>> > Download Super Grub at supergrub.forjamari.linex.org
>> > burn to a CD, boot from it and you will be able to
>> > repair Grub.
>> 
>> Or just use grub from any liveCD.  You're going to a lot of trouble for a
>> one-line command.
> 
> While that is true, the "Super Grub" discs are quite impressive. I played
> with the "floppy" version last week and was surprised at how much it could
> do. I kept the floppy and  CD images for possible future emergencies :-)
> 
> Worth a look, if you haven't yet...

Yeah, it does look worthwhile, but if all you're trying to do is get back to
being able to dual boot Windows & Linux, a LiveCD (if you have one) is a
lot simpler.
-- 
derek





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