How to restore the MBR after do-release-upgrade?
Ralf Mardorf
silver.bullet at zoho.com
Thu Jul 7 12:51:47 UTC 2016
Hi,
the # do-release-upgrade from Wily 15.10 to Xenial 16.04
installed the GRUB packages. There was no way to deny the installation.
I now try to get rid of GRUB, allegedly written to /dev/sda, by
restoring the MBR of all connected drives.
The dd command claims to be ok, but after running
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# dd if=MBR_SDA-20160506_155555.may_2_0_1_6 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.0138179 s, 37.1 kB/s
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# echo $?
0
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# dd if=MBR_SDB-20160506_155555.may_2_0_1_6 of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.0181916 s, 28.1 kB/s
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# echo $?
0
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# cd
[root at moonstudio ~]# umount /dev/sdb14
[root at moonstudio ~]# rmdir /mnt/data2/
[root at moonstudio ~]# shutdown -r now
still the new Ubuntu GRUB menu appears. I tried several times, also
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# dd of=/dev/sda if=MBR_SDA-20160506_155555.may_2_0_1_6 bs=512
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.016662 s, 30.7 kB/s
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# echo $?
0
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# dd of=/dev/sdb if=MBR_SDB-20160506_155555.may_2_0_1_6 bs=512
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes copied, 0.0185379 s, 27.6 kB/s
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# echo $?
0
[root at moonstudio 2016-May]# cd
[root at moonstudio ~]# umount /dev/sdb14
[root at moonstudio ~]# rmdir /mnt/data2/
[root at moonstudio ~]# shutdown -r now
but I never get back the setup I used before GRUB was installed by
do-release-upgrade.
Could somebody explain why overwriting the MBRs with data from backups
doesn't remove GRUB from the MBR or what ever else is happening?
Regards,
Ralf
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