Hi, You may remember that I was less than impressed with Dell when I bought an XPS-13 Developer Edition earlier this year because it came with Ubuntu 14.04 and zero support. Since I couldn't upgrade the Ubuntu installation without throwing away the touchscreen capabilities, I compromised and installed Kubuntu 16.04 as a dual-boot system.
This has worked fine until now, but since I last used the machine a week or two ago, something has overwritten my Grub menu. The two partitions that I created for Kubuntu are still intact (I can boot into using Super Grub2 from a live disc), but I can no longer see a menu from the boot-screen; it goes straight into Ubuntu. I've tried a few tools from the Parted Magic Live Disc, but cannot seem to be able to write a viable Grub Menu. According to this page: http://www.wensley.org.uk/gpt[1] there are some peculiarities associated with using GPT discs and grub2 has to be written to a special partition, but I cannot see for certain which one to use and I've had problems matching the incantations on that page to the reality of my disc line-up, which has an SSD Drive. Does anyone know I good (safe) way to recover my grub menu? I'll be bringing the machine tonight. -- Terry Coles -------- [1] http://www.wensley.org.uk/gpt -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-10-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
