Help. I think my boot sector craped out

[Michael Butash]

You need to read this:

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html

You need to read down to the newer instructions for the last bit to 
reapply grub.  Get a bootable cd, just about any should allow you to do 
this usb, cd, or floppy.

How did you lose your boot sector?  Are you sure the disk isn't toast in 
general?  Boot a live cd and look at the dmesg info for /dev/sda or 
whatever your drive is to it.

dmesg | egrep " ata|sd "

Should give you everything.  dmesg alone often tells quite the tale.

-mb



On 11/13/2011 01:07 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Do you have a USB glasshouse drive? You can use unetbootin to make a
> usbbased live cd
>
> On Nov 13, 2011 1:06 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have uubuntuu10 installed on my hard drive. I don't have the cd for
>     uubuntuu 10. I do have the cd for mepis 6.5. How do I reinstall the
>     boot sector? How do I figure out if it is the boot sector and not a
>     hard drive failure. If it is a haard drive failure could someone mail
>     me a uubuntuu cd? I have a few hard drives I can use.
>     --
>     :-)~MIKE~(-:
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