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| = Introduction = | =Boot-Repair currently contains serious security flaws and should not be used. Two of the egregious flaws are: 1. Boot-Repair, while executing as root, downloads scripts from a 3rd-party site via http and executes the scripts without signature check. 2. Boot-Repair automatically registers a personal ppa package archive with your update system. If installed, your system, by implication, can be no more secure than that ppa and the code from that ppa. Further, the link below to "Ubuntu Secured CDs" is also from the same developer. These CDs are most certainly not secured and are not official Ubuntu releases. |
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| '''Boot-Repair''' is a small graphical tool to repair frequent boot problems : | '''Boot-Repair''' is a small graphical tool to restore access to Ubuntu and other OS (Windows..). |
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| * 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 [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/441941|Windows software that wrote into the MBR gap]], or a OEM MBR lock), * Allow to reinstall [[GRUB]] bootloader easily * Create a Boot-Info-Script summary in 1 click * Allow to restore the original bootsector (MBR) if it has been saved by [[https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/clean-ubiquity|Clean-Ubiquity]] |
* One "Recommended repair" button to repair most frequent boot problems. (generally repair filesystems and reinstall Grub2) * Another button to create a [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/|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...). |
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| Boot-Repair is a free software, licenced under GNU-GPL. | |
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| {{http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/img/1312988896.png}} | Boot-Repair is a free software, licensed under GNU-GPL. {{http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/img/1315191717.png}} |
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| * If the system you want to repair is 32 bits, download and burn a CD of [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10084551&postcount=1|Ubuntu Secured]] (32bits) * If the system you want to repair is 64 bits, download and burn a CD of [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10084551&postcount=1|Ubuntu Secured 64bits]] |
The easiest way to use Boot-Repair is to burn one of the following CDs and boot on it. * [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/files/|Boot-Repair-Disk]] is a CD starting Boot-Repair automatically. (English only). * Boot-Repair is also included in [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10084551&postcount=1|Ubuntu Secured CDs]] (multi-languages) |
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| sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair | sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair |
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| 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. |
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. |
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| * 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. |
== Standard repair == * launch Boot-Repair from either : * the dash (Unity) * System->Administration->Boot-Repair menu (Gnome) * by typing 'gksu boot-repair' in a terminal |
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| Then follow the menus... | * 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. |
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| Advanced options : | == Advanced options == |
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| * [[https://launchpad.net/boot-repair|Official website of Boot-Repair]] * [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10871917&postcount=1|Topic "Boot-repair: Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in 1 clic !"]] - on Ubuntu forum, for any questions/comments. |
* [[https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/|Official website of Boot-Repair]] * [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10871917#post10871917|Topic "Boot-repair: Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in 1 clic !"]] - on Ubuntu forum, for any questions/comments. |
=Boot-Repair currently contains serious security flaws and should not be used.
Two of the egregious flaws are:
1. Boot-Repair, while executing as root, downloads scripts from a 3rd-party site via http and executes the scripts without signature check.
2. Boot-Repair automatically registers a personal ppa package archive with your update system. If installed, your system, by implication, can be no more secure than that ppa and the code from that ppa.
Further, the link below to "Ubuntu Secured CDs" is also from the same developer. These CDs are most certainly not secured and are not official Ubuntu releases.
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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
Topic "Boot-repair: Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in 1 clic !" - on Ubuntu forum, for any questions/comments.