how to fix grub error 16 from kubuntu install?

[Wayne Davis]

Super Grub Disc URL

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html
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Josef Lowder wrote:
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> Thanks to all for the suggestions below. 
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> I originally wrote: 
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>>> 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?
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> Vic <vodhner at cox.net> wrote:
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>> Boot from a Linux Live CD to repair your grub setup.
>> Boot from *any* Windows disk in rescue mode to fix the mbr,
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> Next Vic sent this link:
> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html
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> Wayne Davis wrote 
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>> 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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