Super Grub Disc URL
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html
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Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> Thanks to all for the suggestions below.
>
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> I originally wrote:
>
>>> I just installed kubuntu from the live CD on an ibm t40 with xp
>>> (no install/rescue xp cd) and now have a grub error 16 so can't
>>> boot anything. I've searched the net, but have not found a way
>>> to restore mbr and salvage what is on the hd. Can't find a way
>>> to restore mbr on my knoppix cd. how can I fix this problem?
>>>
>
> Vic <vodhner@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Boot from a Linux Live CD to repair your grub setup.
>> Boot from *any* Windows disk in rescue mode to fix the mbr,
>>
>
> Next Vic sent this link:
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html
>
> Wayne Davis wrote
>
>> There is a Boot disc out there called: Super Grub Loader
>> It has saved my bacon several times.
>> Do a google for it. It's a small .ISO you burn to a CD.
>> OR, if you are near me 15av/Bell, I'll give you one. :-)
>>
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>
> I also found the same linuxhelp.blogspot page that Vic suggested,
> and have been trying some of the remedies suggested on that page,
> but no success yet. I'm beginning to think that the kubuntu
> install may have created a problem as fdisk -l displays partitions
> that do not seem proper, i.e. "partition 2 does not end on a
> cylinder boundary" Same message for partition 3. Also, when I
> view the partitions with qparted via Knoppix, it appears that
> there is only one single partition and not multiple partitions.
>
> I'll download that "Super Grub Loader" to see what it might do.
>
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