Super Grub Disc URL http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Josef Lowder wrote: > . > Thanks to all for the suggestions below. > > ------------------ > 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 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. :-) >> > ----------------- > > 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. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >