Security Warning

The instructions below should be disregarded due to unacceptable security vulnerabilities. In particular, the currently posted code for Boot-Repair will do the following, all of which are unacceptable:

1. It downloads and executes scripts (as root), from two different insecure locations via http.

2. The scripts adds, without your knowledge, an un-trusted third-party package repository allowing any user with control of that system to install and run arbitrary code on your system.

Further, despite impressions to the contrary, Boot-Repair is NOT an official offering of Ubuntu.

Introduction

Boot-Repair is a small graphical tool to restore access to Ubuntu and other OS (Windows..).

• One "Recommended repair" button to repair most frequent boot problems. (generally repair filesystems and reinstall Grub2)
• Another button to create a Boot-Info-Script summary in 1 click

• Options to reinstall Grub2 easily (OS by default, purge, unhide, kernel options..), and other advanced options (MBR restore...).

Boot-Repair is a free software, licensed under GNU-GPL.

Getting Boot-Repair

1st option : get a CD including Boot-Repair

The easiest way to use Boot-Repair is to burn one of the following CDs and boot on it.

• Boot-Repair-Disk is a CD starting Boot-Repair automatically. (English only).

• Boot-Repair is also included in Ubuntu Secured CDs (multi-languages)

Remark : you can also install the ISO on a live-USB.

2nd option : install Boot-Repair in Ubuntu

Either add ‘ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair’ to your Software Sources via the Software Centre or, for speeds-sake, add it using a new Terminal session:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Boot-Repair can be installed & used from any Ubuntu session (normal session, or live-CD, or live-USB). PPA packages are available for Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10.

Using Boot-Repair

Standard repair

• launch Boot-Repair from either :
  • the dash (Unity)

  • System->Administration->Boot-Repair menu (Gnome)

  • by typing 'gksu boot-repair' in a terminal
• Then try "First repair. When repair is finished, reboot and check if you recovered access to your OSs. If not, run Boot-Repair again and try the "Second repair" option.

If both repairs did not succeed, copy-paste the URL that appeared in order to get help on Ubuntu forums.

Advanced options

External Links

• Official website of Boot-Repair

• Topic "Boot-repair: Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in 1 clic !" - on Ubuntu forum, for any questions/comments.