Hi :)
Errrr is it time to think about data-recovery? ie get a 'new' hard-drive and
make that bootable and repair the 'old' hard-drive while booted into the 'new'
one?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
(my variant on the advice effectively uses the 'new' partition to make the
machine act as a new machine with the 'old' drive only plugged back in after
you have successfully booted into the 'new' drive a couple of times. Don't
plug in nor unplug while powered up of course!). I think in the guide they
tend to prefer LiveCds but i try to go for something faster even if it takes a
little while to set it up.
Regards from
Tom :)
>________________________________
> From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>To: Tom Davies <[email protected]>
>Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, 24 September 2012, 18:08
>Subject: Re: re Rescue Mode (Tech Support Department)
>
>
>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:
>>>
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