{"id":107,"date":"2009-01-10T14:39:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T13:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2009-01-10T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-10T14:19:36","slug":"oblitterate-grub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/2009\/01\/oblitterate-grub\/","title":{"rendered":"Oblitterate GRUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick is really handy. That enabled me to remove a trojan from my laptop that I couldn&#8217;t remove from Windows itself. There was one drawback; GRUB got stuck on my MBR (Master Boot Record) pointing to the USB stick. So without the stick the machine couldn&#8217;t be booted. Forgetting the stick at work yesterday made the problem desperate &#8211; GRUB had to go promptly!<\/p>\n<p>I read many hints on different forums, most pointing at two options of how to remove GRUB:<\/p>\n<p>1) Boot and repair the MBR using a DOS command &#8211; I have no floppy so that option was out<\/p>\n<p>2) Use the recovery CD\/DVD &#8211; My system is an upgrade so the CD I have (a genuine one I might stress!) doesn&#8217;t have this feature (or I didn&#8217;t see it when I tried it).<\/p>\n<p>I used the Master GRUB Disk to boot (which actually worked) but tested to recover it from the disk, where things went from bad to worse. The start-up manager was then gone to. ARGHHHH!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Browsing the net again I finally found this piece of comfort;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2008\/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download\/\" target=\"_blank\">Revovery CD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download, burn and boot from it.<\/p>\n<p>Select language and keyboard layout whereafter you press the &#8220;Repair&#8221; link. I had to have it repair twice, where I believe the first one did recover the MBR only and the other did recover the mess the GRUB disk caused. Again, my love for Linux has further deepened &#8230; NOT!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB stick is really handy. That enabled me to remove a trojan from my laptop that I couldn&#8217;t remove from Windows itself. There was one drawback; GRUB got stuck on my MBR (Master Boot Record) &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/2009\/01\/oblitterate-grub\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oblitterate GRUB<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,27],"tags":[29,30,17,28],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-windows","tag-grub","tag-recovery","tag-ubuntu","tag-vista"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkM6p-1J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bergatrollet.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}