Complete Re-install of GRUB 2 from Live USB

[WhatTheFeatherTV]

i know this isn't related but i need help D: whenever i try installing something from the software center, it says "There seems to be a programming error in aptdaemon, the software that allows you to install/remove software and to perform other package management related tasks."

and in Terminal "E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. "

[kaianttila73i]

CD is archaic?

Do you remember the old 1.4 Mb floppy discs?

[kometa0017]

love u :)))

u are great & very helpful

[atpchase]

Awesome thanx so much.

[Hokrollo1]

How to completely uninstall this shitty OS? That was basically what messed up my Win7

[MisterSensational]

@Hokrollo1 Just because you're sour after failing to do this correctly, you oughtn't insult the operating system, especially considering you're probably now so afraid of installing operating systems that you'll be stuck with it for some time to come.

[vegastyphoon]

Unfortunetly, I can't get into anything. Just have a black screen. This is an old linux ubuntu 7.10 used as a 2nd PC, and I don't care about losing any data. Can I clean out everything and start over manually ?? Help. Thanks...

[snark69]

Awesome full explanation this time.

[bigvirgotube]

Just subscribed. Very nice video. Yeah, grub2 is NOT always 'intuitive' when it runs into issues...

[ZoneTelevision]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Nixie

[philliptoone]

Wow, thanks a ton Nixie. It worked like a charm. Very good, very clear, and very understandable instructions. I've spent all morning reading GRUB, GRUB2, SuperGRUB, and command line GRUB tutorials and still couldn't even get my machine to boot. Now everything works great! Thanks again. I'm starting to believe that Ubuntu Live on USB is the ultimate rescue solution. P.S. Ubuntu has a "Startup Disk Creator" that I used this time instead of the usually UNetbootin and tt worked great.

[blenheimears]

I had to install GRUB 2 manually to begin with. When I was installing Ubuntu I got an error that it couldn't install GRUB 2 (apparently the installer didn't like my OCZ RevoDrive).

[Cc0nd0r]

Actually, im not really interested in the content of your vids, because reading and understanding the manpages and wikis for each distribution is actually ways better. Nevertheless i just wanted to mention that your play between 'sexyness' and tutorials fits perfectly. furtermore, you seem to be a very sympathic person. keep it up :)

[four20Linux]

i was wrong ... i had used a usb drive w/ a bootloader on it that let me boot into my linux system ... if you don't do it that way you need to chroot & bind & all that shit

[four20Linux]

this was made far more complicated than it should have been. simply boot up from your live media and execute the following commands:

user@host#sudo ls -lhR /dev/disc

(use that to determine your device node)

user@host#sudo grub-install /dev/XXX

(where XXX is the partition of your linux filesystem root)

No need to mound bind chroot or any of that.

[four20Linux]

#echo sudo rm -fr /media/nixie/clothes && sudo mount -t debugfs /dev/nixie /dev/me>>/usr/bin/hmmm.sh

#sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/hmm.sh

#crontab -e

20 4 * * * /usr/bin/hmmm.sh

esc:wq

#sudo -f make.sandwich

echo jk jk

[ubudog32]

./imissyournewvideos.sh

[HolgerFrancisco]

Thanks! A million times thanks! Very, very useful.

[bcd0101]

thanks exellent tutorial

[wbc564]

@willielikesmonkeys

Non terminal literacy means you use wibdows too much, you have to use terminal to learn it. Besides, she gives the commands to you

[emerybryant]

o.O now if only i knew some more about linux cuz im lost =/

[Kerynasta]

I hate to be predictable but you could have installed windows in the time it takes to type the complete works of Shakespeare into a terminal.

[sobal79]

how to install ubuntu on raid 0, mam?>!

[swarfendor437]

Always enjoyed your Vids - KDENLIVE DID NOT SEEM TO WORK FOR ME - pLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT zORINos - ALSO BASED ON uBUNTU - FI THIS COMES OUT WROING IT IS BECAUSE MY THEME IS TOO DARK FOR yOUtUBE!

[Willielikesmonkeys]

thats all nifty and dandy and all, but as for the less terminal literate... well why dont you try a utility i use called: boot repair

[Ben170293]

All I keep hearing is booty and boob.

[MrJopn83]

What microphone you use? Great video as always

[Pamfilo22]

Would you happen to have any tutorials for fedora 15? :D I use to have Ubuntu then I moved to mint and now fedora. I enjoy your tutorials and they are very helpful :)

[pjwroc]

It helped me so much, thx !

[Ograws]

NOTE: For Ubuntu you will need to install UNETBOOTIN from the package manager. It may/may not be available for other distros.

[miguelmedina286]

as always very uselfull

and your voice omg

[wjvgmail]

Great tutorial! The last time I installed Windows 7 on a separate partition I ran Boot-Repair on a Live USB drive and it made the repair much quicker.

[TheMininessie]

thats a mouthful thats what she said

[0LoneTech]

I like it, this guide looks quite helpful. A minor comment is that bind mounts are not hard links; hard links (made with ln) don't work on directories (for structural reasons) and only within one filesystem. The steps shown work nicely. Keep it up! (:

[Shaunbrough]

Very helpful. I once had a corrupted usb hard drive that had my only copy of a lot of files and I couldn't access it so I held on to it and one day I learned about gpart and I was able to recover the master boot record and access my files long enough to back it up. There is a lot that you can do with a Ubuntu live CD and a Ubuntu live USB. Keep up the good work.

[ramblinman41]

To unmount you could also use 'umount /mnt/{dev,proc,sys}'!

[mpdealmeida]

mv nixie ~/myhome/tonite/mybed

[callmeshane303]

You have a pointy nose like a ferret.

[BenHaor]

Ubuntu 11.04 is such an unstable and troublesome OS that I can only bare its name in nice tutorials such as this... Even though it's not of much use to me now.

[MrCouldnotfindaname]

Hey there, I watched your tutorial and I was wondering if following it would solve my problem... I first installed ubuntu natty alongside windows 7 using Wubi, then had to do a complete reinstall of windows 7(I forgot to uninstall ubuntu as a program; you know, from the control Panel) now every time I turn my laptop on, I have to choose between Windows 7 and a non-existent ubuntu 11.04 .... any ideas on how to fix this?

[salfratuka]

I would like to see bash tutorials to get active witht the terminal

[ShadowEater120880]

You missed the part where you VERIFY the ISO. You can use a 32bit live CD to chroot to 64bit install and vice versa

[paulinapio]

Nixie, maybe you can make a zoom to read better the commends? We watch your video all over the world and we speak spanish, german or french.. so we dont´t give a shit about the details like english pronunciacion since everydoby knows how to write SUDO :) Big hug from Spain

[killjoy554455]

I like the penguins intro.... :( Please Nixie... bring the pretty penguins back.... kisses girl....

[TheMikeypsycho]

Unetbootin is an awesome utility for creating live usb drives. it's also available for Windows

[M1cr0p47]

TYVM

No more reinstalling linux when I only need to refresh windows

I know I could probably find this out easily on google but the personal touch is much nicer than google

[Mile97stankovic]

facebook(dot)com/nixiepixel?re­f=ts&sk=wall this is your page at facebook?

[12skyline21]

dd does the job pretty good too :P

[rras84]

watched it yesterday and after messing around with partition changing programs in win7 this morning my grub menu was gone, now it's working again thanks to this tutorial. tnx

[callmeshane303]

SOO-DOO - no - SUE-DOH

[bilekbp]

@callmeshane303 No, Soo-doo is correct. sudo is short for "superuser do" pronounced like "due."

[callmeshane303]

@bilekbp

No it's:

S YOU D OH

Dumb fuck.

[bilekbp]

@callmeshane303 If you knew anything at all about Linux, you would know that it is pronounced "Sue" "due." But obviously you wish to remain ignorant. Not that it matters anyway, no two people will pronounce any word exactly the same. Still, it would behoove you to act like a mature adult and actually educate yourself on the subject rather than making yourself look like a fool.

[callmeshane303]

@bilekbp

You got that wrong - when the rule of abbreviation is to phoneticise the term components, instead of pronouncing out of the original context. It's got nothing to do with linux, it's got everything to do with being literate, instead of being a dumb fuck who just says it's right, because he's just copying all the other dumb fucks, who also copy each other.

Remember dumb fuck - SUE and DOH, like Johnny Cash and Homer Simpson.

[bilekbp]

@callmeshane303 First, there is no such rule of abbreviation. Second, English is not a phonetic language. You really need to try reading a book once in a while.

[callmeshane303]

@bilekbp

The rule of abbreviation? It does not exist? Your just saying that - because you cannot prove it.

LOL - but everyday we come across thousands of examples.

Loser.

[ShadowEater120880]

@callmeshane303 Why is it important that you have to insult people? Everyone knows what is meant and the comments clarify if it is not. Where is the problem?

[callmeshane303]

@ShadowEater120880

Name 3?

No they don't.

The problem is with ignorant people like you who have NO standards, who fuck it up for everyone else.

[ShadowEater120880]

@callmeshane303 What does it 'fuck up', language is used to convey a message. In this case the message is clear for all to see so has served it's purpose. You will not ice it is only YOU ranting about the pronunciation of the word so it's a fair assumption to say that only you have an issue. I don't know what you want me to name 3 of. If you enlighten me I will make an attempt for you

[nixiedoeslinux]

@bilekbp Yep, you're right. =)

[flamingfigures]

You need to come to Canuck land for a bit and assist me... In my last year at my highschool I assisted in a full conversion of a computer lab to dual-boot Ubuntu with XP, but they are really picky about what the system needs. They actually said they were worried about security :p I lol'd.

[nothatsaknife]

How about syslinux?

[nothatsaknife]

@nothatsaknife Great video by the way. :D

[Linux4UnMe]

Good ol Chroot

[elda215]

nice tutorial :)

just an observation, where U go

sudo chroot ... and then install grub you could instead do

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda (there's a space between /mnt and /dev/sda) of course changing the /dev/sda to the corresponding on each system, without having to chroot

[javamanV3]

I salute you for the tutorial.

At the same time, i was pissed that Ubuntu (and others) decided that this was a good enough upgrade to force it on us. I believe that every change to our boot system (LILO, GRUB, GRUB2) was a step away from KISS. The fact that GRUB 2 is not set up properly by Ubuntu, and derivatives, just makes it worse.

I guess the only real way to deal with the monstrosity of GRUB 2 is to learn all of the details, in all of the directories instead of one file.

[Athylas]

cd/ Nixie

Sudo make more videos

[quantum]

@Athylas cd /Athylas

sudo learn_to_type_linux_commands_p­roperly

[stylesuxx23]

@quantum and how many Linux commands do you know with underscores in them? ;-)

[Athylas]

@quantum cd /quantum

sudo my_shame_is_great

[GegoXaren]

@Athylas

g++ main.cpp

g++ main.cpp file or catalogue not found

make: *** [default] error 1

$

[OmenX13]

Great Tutorial Nixie - Thanks

[p1703]

Why isn't there a shell script or even a GUI included in the Live CD/USB drive, that does the job without typing so many command lines? The only challenge would be the selection of the target MBR partition/drive and that is not impossible... That makes the difference between high usability and annoying typing. Linux command lines offer great benefits, but this is not one of those.

[madjunir]

Nixie, i know many people were asking for advance tutorials, but since some of us also like GUI apps would be nice if you made a future video featuring Boot-Repair

[stepALi1]

you could do this easly with text base installer , wich is available in the ubuntu alternative downloads .

[adamx20]

Please don't call 32bit and 64bit 'versions'. They are 'architectures'.

[Buddy1306]

@adamx20 Pedantic crap. You need the 32-bit VERSION of a software to run on a 32-bit architecture.

[wwwShadow7]

I haven't installed (or used) windows in years. But installing ubuntu (or upgrading ubuntu 10.10 -> 11.04) is pretty good about not installing grub2 correctly. I've always had to boot a liveCD (or USB) version of ubuntu to correct the boot loader (grub2).

Having an IDE slot and an old IDE HDD on a mostly sata and old desktop probably doesn't help. Or should I say PATA (sans 2007 reterm-age)

[LordBas2]

Good tutorial. I always reinstalled my distro when I (or windows) messed up the MBR. This is way better :P

[MagikGimp]

Now can you explain why my GRUB GUI I downloaded from USC no longer works (as in change any of the settings)?

[Araneas181]

Nice tutorial - ignore the pervs.

[nimitzhunter]

@Araneas181 Nice pervs -ignore the tutorial :-D

[Waranle]

I wanna bite your nipples ;)

[WXYZ4NYC]

I would like to mount her to my d drive.

[djzn]

Nixie, you're so cute. If I had to choose a second wife, that would be you. You both would look so hot. ;-)

[mixinginthebox]

Nice ty..

[moxncal]

hummm what should i mount?

[AgentHydra]

wtf? O_0

[stalker2001X]

Everything nice, but it may not work on PCs with EFI (Macs for example). Some of them have problems with booting of a USB drive, so that "piece of arcane crap" is still useful. ;)

[steampunkcoder]

I like watching your videos Nixie, your voice is soothing :D

A tip for those who like backups:

dd if=/dev/sdX of=/some/path/grub-backup.bin bs=512 count=1

Saves your boot loader to a file 512 bytes small, put it in dropbox or somewhere you can get to it online for later convenience.

To restore, boot your live USB and just reverse the if/of parameters:

dd if=/some/path/grub-backup.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1

No mounting necessary, you can backup while the system is running too :)

[saffron99]

great tutorial nixie :)

[cicciarap]

i think of myself as an advanced linux user, so i knew how to do this. But i think a distro like Ubuntu, that wants to be user friendly and to hide all the "command line stuff" should provide a simple script that reinstall grub. I'm using archlinux so i know the system in and out, but i think a normal user doesn't have to know all of these stuff

[taltigolt]

nice new intro :) and usbdrive

[TheGermanGuy91]

Its even easier with the Boot repair cd iso.

Just boot it, klick on repair..... and done.

[anemic66]

Great tutorial, thanks!

[oliverrichard47]

Is unmounting at the end really necessary, surely if you just typed 'reboot' the kernel would unmount all filesystems before restarting?

[lenin25051986]

@oliverrichard47 It is quite mandatory, because Linux writes the data after umounting (this is healthier for floppys and usb).If you just reboot, it kills all processes, and don't give enought time to write on usb, which means data corruption

[Skybinary]

thankyou, my booting has been stoofed for ages.

only if there where an easy way to fix it.

[ScriptJumper]

I Luv U *g*

[CorbyStarletCj1]

So i have one computer, How do i do this and at the same time watch this video on youtube ?????

[D3Ad1yHAck3r]

@CorbyStarletCj1 write the commands down or use a smartphone

[shaurz]

You can do this from the grub command prompt without booting Linux.

[asuffield2]

@shaurz The grub prompt only lets you rewrite the boot sector. If stage2 is corrupted then you'll need grub-install to sort it out.

[Linuxdirk]

Hooray for GRUB2

[DougWardBlammo]

SUDO apt-get _down here to Costa Rica. Nice video Guapa.

[ercineker]

@nixiedoeslinux actually u dont have to chroot to install grub :) check the "--root-directory" option... just mount ur root partition and boot if its seperate and point the root dir command shud be like # grub-install --root-directory=/media/ubuntu

[cicciarap]

@ercineker well, this way you will replace the original grub of the system with the one provided by the distro used for repair. If they are the same there is no problem and your statement is correct. But actually i'm using a different version of grub2 named burg, so to repair it your way i need a distro with burg. With nixie way i can use any distro. So i recommend using her way just to be safe =)

[LuiWallentin]

Just to let you know - This didn't show in my subscriptions

[TheSportCompact]

For those of you who still have floppy drives, you can load a copy of grub or grub 2 onto one of those antiquated disks. Then you either use it to boot the system from the floppy for when you want to use Linux and keep your Windows boot loader, or you can keep it as a backup in case say Windows overwrites your boot sector. I did the second option for many years until I stopped using floppy drives in my systems.

[geiroffenberg]

You forgot to boot into unity here. You dont fool us, you dislike unity like the rest of us.

[geiroffenberg]

THeres no unity on nixies desktop. She must dislike it as much as everybody else.

[TheSportCompact]

@geiroffenberg I hate both Unity and Gnome. But after all the years of exploring the different distributions I find Ubuntu to be one of the best out there so I use Kubuntu. Then there is the new Ubuntu / Unity policy that a contributing developer to Unity must sign over his rights to his intellectual property has my contemplating finding another distribution again, as it should with most who use Ubuntu and are Open Source and Free Software community members.

[mKLakakiLLi]

fantastic... but 1 day too late :D

[naharib]

This was super useful.

Thanks.

And on that matter i hate grub2, as long as grub2 stays unfriendly i won't install ubuntu parallel to win7, only on vm.

[TheSportCompact]

@naharib You can't blame Ubuntu for Grub 2. Pretty much nearly all distributions are using it. Who you want to blame for it's unfriendliness is Richard Stallman who being the smug self important tool he is believes that everyone should be a text / command line junkie and expert in Linux. His dictatorial scumbag rule of and over GNU and projects developed under it is why it is as it is. He knows things like this keep it from the mainstream and he does what he does to ensure it stays that way.

[jjlwis]

looking good babez! 

[fnadde42]

Keep doing these. Even though I'm more of an advanced user these videos helped me get there

[kdpawson]

Thanks Nixie, good video keep them coming!

[hmpeter]

I am quite happy that I have no reason to use GRUB2 and can use GRUB instead.



[analyzingfunny]

ok, seriously. Let's make a porn film. I can go for 18 hours at 60 beats per minute. Im serious.

[jason12211]

Keep up the great advice Nix!

[MTgeek1]

U mount

[Telstar85]

One doesn't really need the whole system just for chroot & mount, a Core disk would do as well. The only requirements for the boot media are the same branch kernel, chroot and mount+kernel modules for the root partition.

[huetubery]

This was actually informative.. thanks Nixie

[Roach1983]

Any chance you could show an easy way to update/install programs without an internet connection? I tried mint not knowing my usb adapter didn't work with it, and come to find out trying to do anything at all without internet is infuriating. Thanks!