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So you're grub is corrupted and you can't boot.

Started by buster, December 20, 2017, 11:11:30 PM

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buster

Got this from DistroWatch. Seems to be an easy way to at least get into the system:

Corrupted boot loader

One of my least favourite situations to try to recover from is rescuing a system where the boot loader is no longer working. Usually this can be fixed by booting a live disc, creating a chroot environment and re-installing the boot loader. However, there are several steps involved in this kind of rescue and sometimes our priority is to just get our main operating system back on-line quickly. For these situations there is Super Grub2 Disk. Super Grub2 Disk is a live CD which can be used to boot operating systems, even when the GRUB boot loader has been corrupted or overwritten. Super Grub2 Disk is not a full operating system, it just gives us the tools to boot our existing, on-disk operating system so we can start making repairs. This may be easier or faster than trying to repair the operating system from a separate, live disc environment.
Father Time remains undefeated.

fox

I wonder if there is an easy way to make a Super Grub2 disk on a usb stick? I was looking this up and it is unclear whether or not a program like unetbootin or etcher would work. Anyone tried this?
Ubuntu 26.04 on 2019 5k iMac
Ubuntu 24.04 on Dell XPS 13

ssfc72

Yes, I believe I have it on a Yumi multiboot usb flash drive.  I also have another mbr repair program, on the same flash drive.
I have used them to recover from a non booting notebook.

Bill
Mint 20.3 on a Dell 14" Inspiron notebook, HP Pavilion X360, 11" k120ca notebook (Linux Lubuntu), Dell 13" XPS notebook computer (MXLinux)
Cellphone Samsung A50, Koodo pre paid service

Jason

Zorin OS 17.3 installed on:
* Dell Precision 3630 Tower - i5-8600@3.1 GHz (4.3 GHz turbo) six core, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, GeForce 1060 card (Zorin OS 17.3)
* Lenovo ThinkPad T480 w/ i5-8350U@1.7 GHz (3.4 GHz turbo) 4 cores/8 threads, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB M.2 drive, touchscreen (Zorin OS 17.3)