[Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

**YannBuntu** · November 29th, 2012

@gemini44: that's a driver problem. Boot-Repair can't help with this. Please create a new thread here.

**gemini44** · November 29th, 2012

Originally Posted by YannBuntu

@gemini44: that's a driver problem. Boot-Repair can't help with this. Please create a new thread here.

thank u very much for ur effort about efi, i before booted 40 sec. now 15 sec.

**greenewbie** · November 29th, 2012

Originally Posted by YannBuntu

Yes. But as you already have a 12.04 liveCD, i recommend you use the commands below:

Strange.
Please boot your liveCD, choose "Try Ubuntu", connect internet, and type theses commands:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair

Press Enter. Then:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Press Enter. Then:

Code:

sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair

Press Enter. Then:

Code:

boot-repair

Many thanks for your help again YannBuntu and oldfred!

So I entered all the above commands (manually because for some reason I couldn't get access to ubuntuforums.org on my live CD! but no problem with wikipedia etc!).

Towards the end, my Terminal indicated that there are technical problems. Please see the screenshot attached.

The boot repair dialog box then appeared. As there still seems to be a problem I chose the second option:
"Create a BootInfo summary"

Here's the URL: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1397799/

And it looks to me as if it's still the same....

I haven't tried rebooting my machine yet. Do you suggest I try the FIRST option in the boot repair dialog box: "Recommended Repair"?

For you it may well be glaringly obvious....but I always fear that I'm going to get my fingers burnt, tampering with things I don't understand!

**YannBuntu** · November 29th, 2012

Originally Posted by greenewbie

my Terminal indicated that there are technical problems. Please see the screenshot attached.

This is just a warning, it won't cause problem. Please try the Recommended Repair.

**greenewbie** · November 30th, 2012

Originally Posted by YannBuntu

This is just a warning, it won't cause problem. Please try the Recommended Repair.

So I've just done that. The dialog box says "Boot successfully repaired".
Here's the URL:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1398026/

It looks better to me...what do you think

? Just to remind you it's just 2 OSs, UB 11.10 and XP?

Thanks in advance

UPDATE: I took my chances and Ok...so far so good...it's booted up Oneiric, NO PROBLEM!! HOORAY! I've got some data to recover off it tomorrow, then I'll make sure it boots again on Oneiric (before upgrading to 12.04) and also on XP...I'll report tomorrow. Thanks again!

**smulla** · December 2nd, 2012

I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 on my netbook and I'm dualbooting with windows 7.

I wanted to clean the bootmenu since I had 3 entries I had Ubuntu and an entry for kernel image 3.5.0.19 which is ubuntu 12.10 well I modified the boot.cfg by adding # in the lines and hiding those lines.

What happened was I totally screwed it up and now it will not boot at all into ubuntu but I can still get into Windows 7 since I'm running a dual boot configuration.

I'll try this disk but I can sure use some help.

**YannBuntu** · December 2nd, 2012

@smulla: please run Boot-Repair --> Recommended Repair .
Tell us the URL that will appear.
Reboot and indicate what you observe.

@greenewbie: glad it worked. Happy Ubuntu-ing

**YannBuntu** · December 2nd, 2012

@all: since 1 or 2 days, there was a little bug in the PPA of Boot-Repair, which prevented the automatic adding of Windows UEFI entries in the GRUB menu.
This should be fixed with >= 3.195~ppa20 packages (available in ~3 hours).