Hey Bob: Very cool, i'll have to remember this in case someone else has the same problem.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Adrian Petrescu <apetr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice quick thinking! :) > > On Friday, October 8, 2010, Robert Lewis <bob.l.le...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I had an old friend call who had his MBR fail so he couldn't boot. > > He had no MS floppy and no CD/DVD media for MS to use the > > Recovery option. Here is how I fixed it for him. He is in Indiana. > > > > I had him come up on Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD. > > I then had him install "teamviewer" which gave me remote access to his > > machine even though it was a Live CD. Teamviewer installed into ram. > > > > I then had him use Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center and download > > a program called "mbr". I read the destructions and then typed: > > install-mbr /dev/sda > > > > and he rebooted and everything worked again. > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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