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

• Create a Boot-Info-Script summary in 1 click

• 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

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

• 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 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.