Hello Tom, I fear your system partition is badly damaged, because Boot-Repair couldn't detect any GRUB executable (grub-install) in it, and worse: no apt-get executable at all. So the problem is not GRUB. If i were you, i would try to fix the system files this way: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation
Regards Yann 2012/9/24 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > Hi :) > If it's not possible to recover Grub2 is it possible to reinstall? > > > Personally i still haven't got out of the old Windows-support habit of > just reinstalling instead of spending time trying to analyse and fix. > Grub2 should be reasonably easy to install on almost any type of partition. > > > I think i might create a special partition purely for booting from. A > boot partition. It's a bit old-school as i haven't seen one for years but > they used to be very popular. In some situations it might be possible to > copy&paste your grub config file but even if not the newer version of grub2 > would probably be able to find all the OSes that are bootable on your > machine. > > > I don't think it finds ones inside a virtual machine that you would run > from inside one of the partitions (although obviously you can install > directly into a virtual machine that could then boot any bootable OSes > inside that virtual machine). I guess if you could somehow get the bios to > start-up a virtual machine then it could let Grub2 boot that but i think > that would be really weird and freaky and possibly even scary. > > > Anyway, many apols if a reinstall has already proven impossible. I > haven't been following this thread so it might be an inherently bad > suggestion but reinstalls have always worked for me! :) > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > >Friends, > >A special Thank You to yannubuntu for the excellent work in > obtaining a boot repair report at http://paste.ubuntu.com/1219427/. > > > >Unfortunately, the only remaining solution is to figure a way to > mount the LVM partitions and copy off any data to save. Don't > know how to do that. > > > >But I did want everyone to know that GRUB2 cannot be recovered in > certain situations, which is too bad. I would like to know if > this is an OS-dependent operation or if GRUB should be able to be > fixed in any situation. > > > >Thanks all. > > > >KitchM > > Tech Support Department wrote: > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub >
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