Introduction

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

• Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )
• Can recover access to one or several operating systems
• Options to reinstall GRUB2 boot-loader easily (OS by default, purge, unhide, kernel options..)
• Create a Boot-Info-Script summary in 1 click

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

Getting Boot-Repair

1st option : get a CD including Boot-Repair

• Boot-Repair-Disk is the official CD containing the very last version of Boot-Repair

• Boot-Repair is also included in all Ubuntu Secured CDs

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.