Grub broke Windows bootloader?

[suburbandisposal]

@rokytnji
is it a requirement that the PPA be added while running a live cd environment? or can I just add it to my existing partition and be done with it. I'm assuming the article is written for someone who cant boot into anything at all and that's why it's suggesting making cd/usb? Not trying to be overbearing but there's a lot of music and video to be lost here so I'm trying to get my ducks in a row so to speak.
(not to mention I went out of my way to mod/theme windows and have had it the way I like for a few years now, so I guess I'm a bit attached. Not to mention passwords irresponsibly saved only on browsers and other such nonsense etc etc.)

and cheers on the new Dell, I've become quite resentful towards this ghastly CQ line by HP I'm near ready to throw it out a window. Here's to hoping the holidays might bring in some fresh tech that will undoubtedly have a linuxlite partition8)

[rokytnji]

is it a requirement that the PPA be added while running a live cd environment?

No. My grubrepair live cd was just boot and proceed with the repair. If I am understanding you right.
I never added the ppa and then install grubrepair through synaptic. I just bit the bullet and made a live cd.

I stumbled on this because of this
http://antix.freeforums.org/post37305.html#p37305
http://antix.freeforums.org/post37316.html#p37316


which caused me to burn the cd in the 1st place. AntiX had been using grub legacy till this new testing release when everything switched to grub2.
But the grub repair in AntiX was still for grub legacy through the Mepis Assistant. My job as a tester is to find out these things.
Anyways. After fixing AntiX boot. I was confronted with a Acer Aspire One zg5 I was mailing off to my father in law. It was dual booting
XP and MX-14. I deleted the MX-14 partition which of course broke grub on mbr because there was nothing to find.

I broke out the external dvdrw drive and used my grubrepair cd next.  Rebooted. Windows booted up like nothing had gone wrong.
I mailed that off and my father-in-law is a happy camper.

Same on that HP A350N Desktop I received. I had Puppy running on it to poke through Windows XP on it and was dualbooting with grub4dos
on it. I wanted to restore the Windows Bootloader on MBR and keep the Puppy on there and use a live cd to find the save files I made in Puppy.
That worked also. With that one. Windows would try to boot from the grub4dos menu. But would not make it. When I ran "FIXMBR" .
The error became corrupted mbr after that. I did not want to reinstall grub4dos because Windows would not boot with it.
So the grubrepair cd bailed me out of that corner also. Hence my original statement, "kinda sorta went through that".

I hope I understood your post OK. Happy Trails, Rok

Edit: in those images I show. Where it says the operating system I am using now under advanced options. You hit the drop down arrow to get to Windows.

[suburbandisposal]

So I'm basically trying to convince grub to get my foot in the door then, got it. Also the "I have access to the GRUB menu but my OS does not start" option is the accurate one , is it safe to assume this is the correct option? Or is reinstalling GRUB all together better

and as for "place grub into", is there anywhere in particular I should choose for that/avoid/leave it alone?

thanks again for the info, I'm accident prone so I prefer to be over prepared if I can help it

[rokytnji]

"I have access to the GRUB menu but my OS does not start" option is the accurate o

That would be what I would pick.

and as for "place grub into", is there anywhere in particular I should choose for that/avoid/leave it alone?

 If me. I would peruse the options presented and post back a screenshot when you get that far.
There should be some options you are not aware of yet because you have yet to boot the cd.

If I am not available. Maybe some other member can kick in here. I run my own shop so I am in and out
on forums from time to time. I try and be present but real world stuff keeps me busy also.

[suburbandisposal]

finally stopped being chicken long enough to try and download the dedicated boot repair live cd and wouldn't ya know it, the sourceforge link is dead on that howtogeek page

[Scott(0)]

Hi Suburbandisposal

This Sourceforge link is working for me, post back if you're not able to get through.

http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair-cd/home/Home/

Scott

[rokytnji]

Here: The green button is working for me

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/

or use wget

Code:

http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boot-repair-cd/boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso

My md5sum for the iso I downloaded before and burned a cd to was

9b01d5e16ca4e8c227b9382dc2519905  boot-repair-disk-64bit.i

I don't know if it will be good for the link I gave you till my download finishes in 30 minutes.
Don't procrastinate. It is just a wrench for a Linux tool box.
My md5sum is for the 64bit iso. Not the 32 bit one. I do not know the number for the 32bit one.
In case someone else wishes to post it.

Modify: Found it.

3d847e7b0a2703154eff21071a96e910  boot-repair-disk-32bit.iso

[N4RPS]

Hello!

I haven't had any luck with the 'boot repair' CDs. I usually just use an LL LiveCD, add the boot-repair PPA, install boot-repair, and run it from the Linux Live CD:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

The down side is that you lose the changes, since you can't write them back to the CD. Next time I need it, I think I'll install LL onto a big enough storage card, so that the changes stay there.

Since we're over 700MB now, perhaps boot-repair can be added to a future LiveCD release...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob