Derek Djons
April 13th, 2006, 10:34 PM
Well, today was a normal day for me. From work I went straight home and booted Ubuntu Linux. I used the terminal to quickly update my installation* while reading the news and doing some artwork in Gimp.
* sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
After a couple of hours and the completion of the updates I was done and needed to reboot to Windows for DreamWeaver.
As I rebooted and my notebook passed POST something else appeared instead of GRUB:
Grub can't be read, followed by a blinking cursor. I thought it might be something weird. So I unplugged the powercord and removed the batt. for three minutes. After I booted my notebook the same error came to me.
I had this joke once before. So I knew... I could easily overwrite my MBR with the Windows CD and be able to boot Windows (better than nothing). So I did that. I booted the Windows CD and got myself to the Rescue mode. There I used:
fixboot c:
- The MBR got overwritten and I rebooted my machine.
But instead of Windows booting, GRUB appeared with my Ubuntu installation, all previous Kernels and Windows XP in it.
I'm still confused about WTF happened and how fixboot can see or manage 3rd party MBR's. Well, I'm glad it works... it saves me hell of work finding out / reinstalling Ubuntu.
* sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
After a couple of hours and the completion of the updates I was done and needed to reboot to Windows for DreamWeaver.
As I rebooted and my notebook passed POST something else appeared instead of GRUB:
Grub can't be read, followed by a blinking cursor. I thought it might be something weird. So I unplugged the powercord and removed the batt. for three minutes. After I booted my notebook the same error came to me.
I had this joke once before. So I knew... I could easily overwrite my MBR with the Windows CD and be able to boot Windows (better than nothing). So I did that. I booted the Windows CD and got myself to the Rescue mode. There I used:
fixboot c:
- The MBR got overwritten and I rebooted my machine.
But instead of Windows booting, GRUB appeared with my Ubuntu installation, all previous Kernels and Windows XP in it.
I'm still confused about WTF happened and how fixboot can see or manage 3rd party MBR's. Well, I'm glad it works... it saves me hell of work finding out / reinstalling Ubuntu.