Bit of a problem

Bill Oliver vendor at billoblog.com
Tue Oct 22 22:55:46 UTC 2013


On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Bill Oliver wrote:

>
> I had something like this happen to me a few years ago, though obviously it 
> was not with current distros.  As I remember, I booted from a Fedora live CD 
> and one of the options was to re-do the MBR.  I did, and it worked fine.
>
> See:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/ap-rescuemode.html
> and
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/31318/recovering-fedora-19-boot-reinstalling-grub/
>
> Look at section 19.1.2.1 - Reinstalling the boot loader.
>
>
> Frankly, if it wuz me, I'd just choose one or the other and run everything 
> else as a virtual machine (I use virtualbox).
>
> billo
>


Note by the way that this will make Fedora your default boot, and if
your Ubuntu partition is screwed up enough, it may not recognize it as
such, which means you'll have to play Ubuntu games to fix it.

billo


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