Ubuntu
friendly-recovery package

Make it possible to run friendly-recovery from the livecd

Bug #133012 reported by guigouz
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Baltix
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friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Many people install Ubuntu, and then another proprietary system afterwards, which wipes the boot manager (in ubuntu's case, grub).
There's no easy way for the average user to recover grub without booting the livecd and running grub on a chrooted environment.
A "Super Grub Disk" already exists, which make this really easy for user. At just 3.4megabytes, I guess it (or some modified version of it) could be added to the default live cd. Its URL is http://geocities.com/supergrubdisk/

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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guigouz (gui-prosoma) wrote :

There's a huge amount of people (I'm an active user of #ubuntu-br on freenode) who install ubuntu, like it, but for some reason reinstall windows on another partition. When they do this, grub is wiped from the harddisk. I remember an old version of mandrake having a "recover boot loader" option on the grub menu, or maybe when the livecd boot it could detect whether ubuntu is installed without grub or not and as the user if he/she wants to recover it.

Thanks for the attention

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote :

Any news on this bug? Alternate cd can run the recovery mode, livecd can't.
How much disk space would a grub recovery option take?

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote :

Also see http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote :

Bug #30123 is related, probably should be merged with this one.

Brian Murray (brian-murray)
Changed in casper (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Stéphane Graber (stgraber)
summary: - There's no easy way to recover Grub from livecd.
+ Make it possible to run friendly-recovery from the livecd
affects: casper (Ubuntu) → friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in baltix:
status: New → Invalid
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Ohadcn (ohadcn) wrote :

any news here?
will future live ubuntu cd's ships with Boot-Repair?

Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in baltix:
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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