Ubuntu :: How To Reinstall MBR
Jul 1, 2011
For some reason after I accidentally put ubuntu (meerkat) into hibernation it won't load OS upon turning back on, shutting the computer down does the same thing. I get this error message: No Boot Device Available, Press Enter to Retry.For some reason my OS loads no problem if I am just restarting my system. This just started happening out of the blue.I've already reinstalled a couple of times off the live CD and also deleted and reinstalled GRUB2 with no luck. Now I'm thinking about trying to delete and reinstall my MBR, but I don't know the safest/best way to do this. Can I do this with gparted? Is this something that can only be done in terminal? I've seen commands like install - mbr ... should I use this route?
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May 2, 2010
So I was messing around trying to uninstall Nibbles and reinstall since I have an issue starting that game and something happened and removed the submenu under Games called "Logic", which had another whole list of games.
Is it possible to reinstall the games package or reinstall the update?I'm thinking more of the lines of a system restore or something so back 2 days from today.
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Feb 4, 2011
how do I retrieve/reinstall Grub without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
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Apr 29, 2010
I recently installed opensuse 11.2 on my laptop which also had windows vista and windows 7, i created a new partition and the installation went smoothly, after i went to boot back into windows 7 i got a blue screen of death, strangely vista boots perfectly.I could just reinstall windows 7 but its a pain to reinstall all my programs and such
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Dec 6, 2010
i have ubuntu 10.04 64 bit installed and configured and working sweet. I have reinstalled windows 7 and now i can't boot ubuntu i've tried easybcd to add ubuntu to win boot loader which failed and tried to follow the instructions to reinstall grub through a live cd which i am in at the moment. i go to a terminal and type sudo grub and it brings up the grub prompt. i have mounted all discs and entered the command find /boot/grub/stage1 and it keeps spitting this back at me Error 15: File not found
my hd is a 80gb with partions like this
/dev/sda1 105mb ntfs system reserved
/dev/sda2 45gb ntfs win 7 home premium 64 bit
/dev/sda3 34gb ext4 ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
/dev/sda4 1.5gb linux swap
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Jan 9, 2010
I have this on my computer butit will not boot up. Is it possible to re install this?
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Jun 2, 2011
Installed 10.10 onto a brand new HD. Using the computer to introduct myself to both Ubuntu and file server concepts. I also installed Samba and was communicating wirelessly with 2 Win 7 machines. THEN I upgraded to 11.04, could not get wirless internal card (B43) to work. Everthing is a mess my 11.04 computer is a doorstop. I tried to reinstall 10.10 from the orignal distribution disk I had created. I would like to take off 11.04 and go back to 10.10 with Samba and a functioning wireless card. I have backed up files, I would just like 11.04 off and 10.10 back. I do not wish to deal with the wireless B43 driver and 11.04 for now.
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Mar 1, 2010
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple of months as a wubi install. I've been able to do everything in Ubuntu and have not had to resort to Windows at all. I do have another Windows computer that is networked to this Ubuntu machine. It must remain Windows so I do have a Windows machine for a pinch. The question is I'm thinking of reinstalling Ubuntu on this machine by itself . No more Windows at all. What will I gain & what will I loose.
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Mar 23, 2010
I just uninstalled ubuntu using wubi In control panel/add and remove programs. and removed it.
Because i wanted to add more space, So i reinstalled Wubi, The wubi installer came up i filled it out adding the gbs i wanted name and new password and when i click on istall about two seconds in i get an error,
An error occured; Cannot install into C;ubuntu there is anotherfile or diretory with this name. Please remove it before continuing
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Apr 8, 2010
Anyway to reinstall firefox 3.5.8? It seems no matter what I install from the synaptics, 3.6 will be installed. They are all "dummy upgrade" packages I see. 3.6 is really really bad.
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Apr 23, 2010
I have 7 And Karmic and I recently a 1080p monitor, new graphics card and 8 gbs of ram, I reinstalled 7 (using 64-bits per pixel instead) and I tried reinstalling the grub menu in the live usb and it doesn't work like it did back in earlyer versions of ubuntu
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May 5, 2010
I was trying to upgrade FGLRX, but the old one wouln't uninstall. I think I need to reintall Lucid. Since I have seperate partitions for:: /, /urs, /boot, /boot & swap. Can I ujust reinstall root? I'm downloading 'ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso' via torrent now
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Jun 18, 2010
I'm a hardcore ubuntu user and have ubuntu 10.04 on my dell Inspiron 1525. I dual booted it with fedora 13 recently and fedora grub has wiped out ubuntu grub2. I want to re-install grub2.
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Jul 15, 2010
I reistalled windows XP in a Ubuntu 10.04 /windows dual booting system .. After installation the grub is lost .. I don't know how to restore grub ..
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Aug 11, 2010
I'm trying to get Samba running, but I accidentally deleted smb.conf. I tried reinstalling Samba through apt-get, but it does not create another smb.conf (which it did when I first installed it). I'm pretty new to ubuntu, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to get a completely clean install.
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Aug 18, 2010
I messed up my Ubuntu really bad and I need to reinstall it.
I installed another Ubuntu from the disk, but it never appeared on the grub loader so I assume it failed.
Is there anyway to remove or to reinstall Ubuntu?
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Aug 19, 2010
I installed ubuntu netbook remix on a very old laptop. in the end of installation, the cd drive just broke and not usable again.the ubuntu is installed but extremely slow, I want to try to install something else like wattos or puppy.the problem is - no cd drive, no boot from usb support in bios. only floppy.I tried to go to grub and boot from the usb, but it doesn't find the usb drive..(is it possible to make a bootable floppy that will allow me to boot from usb drive?)
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Aug 31, 2010
I accidently deleted the Me Menu in 10.04 when I installed global menu.
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Sep 27, 2010
I have no idea how to do that >_> I have ubuntu (and Windows 7) dual booting from a partition.
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Nov 20, 2010
Is there any way to recover lost files after fresh install? I forgot to copy some files and i need to recover them. I've reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 aaaaand... I need to recover them at all costs even if it involves losing all my current files..
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Mar 27, 2011
I need to reinstall the GDM because of some problems with it. I can't login to my account because the text box where I enter my password is missing. I have a 32-bit version Ubuntu 10.10 Live CD with me.
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Jun 25, 2011
I had recently re-installed Ubuntu and had it point to my old /home dir. Anyways whenever I load up terminal just the cursor shows no christoph@christoph-desktop: whatever just a blank cursor.
I can type but nothing would happen it would be like typing into a text editor.
Then suddenly it severely bogs down my system and my screen get darker and then the terminal eventually kills itself and goes away.
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Jun 29, 2011
how do I reinstall screen?
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Sep 1, 2011
I have a Mac Book with Ubuntu installed (no partitions). Do you know how to substitute Ubuntu with Leopard/Snow Leopard? My problem is that the OSX installation CD does not see my hard disk
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Jan 11, 2010
I was trying to backup everything, format/overwrite an partition to start with a fresh start after some annoying issues with my previous installation.
I had a perfectly fine working partition table and i chose to format partition
#1 (Ext4) partition (~50gb)
from the installation tool from the ubuntu live cd.
I had more partitions
#2 was ~5gbits swap
#3 was some unencrypted data(~20gb) (I think it was Ext3)
#4 was encrypted data (~150gb) (Ext4)
#5 unpartitioned data (~100gb)
So while doing this the installation failed somehow during the format of the disks, I tried testdisk but it couldn't locate the HDD nor any other program. When I look at my /dev it says this (from live cd):
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# fdisk -l
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu#
Mount says:
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# mount
aufs on / type aufs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
/dev/sr0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (rw) .....
/dev/sdxx doesn't even exist and this also doesn't seem to work:
root@ubuntu:/dev# ls -al | grep h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3240 2010-01-12 00:16 char
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 228 2010-01-12 00:14 hpet
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 56 2010-01-12 00:14 network_throughput
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 140 2010-01-12 00:32 shm
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 231 2010-01-12 00:14 snapshot
I nearly have the idea there is no hdd in my pc while I am very sure it was here some hours ago. I didn't made it fall on something hard while running or something so all inside of the box should be just fine. I can't reach my keepassx file (stored inside the encrypted part) so I also can't log onto my workspace or anything, it is quite crippling currently.
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Jan 14, 2010
I had windows XP on my c:drive. installed ubuntu 9.10 on a 27 gig unallocated space. ubuntu ran fine. Then i boot to win xp and used a partitioning software to take back some other unallocated space. after it rebooted to complete the partitioning processes grub wouldn't load. So i need to re install grub from this ubuntu 9.10 live cd.i tired the following
grub(didnt work the first time said i needed to install grub so did : root@ubuntu:~# sudo apt-get install grub )after grub was installedgrub> find /boot/grub/stage1 Error 15: File not foundthe previous linux partition I can see in the Computer with the boot directory and is called 1000gb hard disk: 27 GB filesystem see screenshot.
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Feb 14, 2010
I want to reinstall windows to its partition on my computer, but I want to be able to restore grub2 afterwards. I use a lot of custom scripts in the /etc/grub.d/ directory on my ubuntu partition, so how can I reinstall grub to the MBR using those specific scripts? Just running "sudo install-grub" or "sudo update-grub" doesn't work for me (I don't know the exact problems, but I can't reproduce it right now). If there's a way to install just the defaults (without overriding my custom scripts!) maybe I can just do that, but I'd really like to put the live cd, run a few commands, and install those custom scripts to the mbr and be on my way.
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Feb 16, 2010
My buddy passed me a CD of W7 I installed & everything was o.k. But then I activate it and reboot it.! It gave me some stinkin error BOOT MSG some like that.! and that I had to press ctrl,alt & delete. Now I cant access or enter it. I wonder if I can install or reinstall from ubuntu 9.10. Cause I cant do it from the bios cause it asks me a password. Which I never had before. Any suggestions linux pros. One more thing I tried recovering it form the win7 repair disc but nothing.
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Feb 16, 2010
Yesterday my flash was upgraded to 10.0.45.2
Since then my flash got choppy again.
Does anyone know what the previous version was and how I can reinstall it?
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Mar 21, 2010
I messed up with my Firefox installation so that I could install a newer version. But when I downloaded from Mozilla it was plain tarball with nothing but a bunch of binary files in it. How do I reinstall Firefox to the exact previous state from repos? And what if I don't wanna install that old 3.0 but the newer version?
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