Ubuntu

MBR deleted after 6.10->7.04 upgrade

Bug #98588 reported by Helminthe
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

I am dual-booting XP and Ubuntu, with ntloader first and grub on Ubuntu's partition. Upgrade process failed at package "firestarter" (see bug #98582), with the message "your system might be in an inconsistent state" (don't know if this is related). After reboot, the MBR was invalid and the system couldn't boot at all.
Steps needed to repair:
#1 Panic.
#2 Boot from the XP CD, select "repair using recovery console".
#3 Run "fixmbr".
Both XP and Ubuntu load fine afterwards.

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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 and issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Helminthe (helminthe) wrote :

It sure isn't the case anymore, I'm on 7.10 ti which the upgrade went smoothly :)
Thank you for the cleanup work though!

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

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