Introduction

Boot-Repair is a small graphical tool to repair frequent boot problems :

• Repair the boot when an OS does not boot any more after installing Ubuntu

• Repair the boot when access to GRUB and any OS is lost (may be due to a Windows software that wrote into the MBR gap, or a OEM MBR lock),

• Allow to reinstall GRUB bootloader easily

• Allow to restore the original bootsector (MBR) if it has been saved by Clean-Ubiquity

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

Getting Boot-Repair

1st option : get a CD including Boot-Repair

• If the system you want to repair is 32 bits, download and burn a CD of Ubuntu Secured (32bits)

• If the system you want to repair is 64 bits, download and burn a CD of Ubuntu Secured 64bits

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-ubuntu

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 and 11.04.

Using Boot-Repair

• if you use Gnome (default in Ubuntu 10.10 and previous versions): launch Boot-Repair from System->Administration->Boot-Repair menu

• if you use Unity (Ubuntu 11.04): search "boot" in the dash.

Then follow the menus...

Remark : if you want to repair a 64bits system, you need to use Boot-Repair from a 64bits system. Same for 32bits.

Example : Boot-repair can be used to reinstall GRUB easily. In the example below the BIOS is set to boot on first hard disk (sda), so the user chooses "Place GRUB into : sda".

See Also

• GRUB2 - Ubuntu bootloader

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.