[NTLUG:Discuss] grub MBR?

[Michael Barnes]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:53 PM, lonestar17 <lonestar17 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Hello,
>  I purchased spinrite, Steve Gibsons' HD maintaining software.  Supposed to
> be great and will keep HD's up and working.
>  BUT, I can't get it to run in any format....floppy, CD , or flash USB
> drive!!!!
>  Perhaps, it's the way my system is setup:  two HD's one with xphome 2nd
> with Ubuntu which is governed by the Grub MBR....Is that the problem?
>  Response when I start with the floppy in:  remove disks and f1 to
> restart????  Is the grub MBR doing that?
>  My laptop HP compaq presario, is configured similarly, partitioned with
> xphome and Ubuntu, the MBR won't recognize the CD just wants to boot!!!
>  Hope you guys have a simple solution I'm not thinking about?!!  I surely
> don't want to corrupt my MBR!!
>  Thanks / John in Dallas.
>
>
I don't know your level of expertise, please don't be offended if you think
this is a dumb question.

Did you burn a disk with the image to make it bootable and ready to go, or
did you just copy the file to it?  If you put it into a running machine and
look at the disk, do you see a bunch of files or just one?

The software is self contained.   You should boot directly to it from BIOS.
It looks at the disk regardless of OS or anything else.  If you get to GRUB,
you've gone too far.  You need to set your boot order in your BIOS to boot
directly from the CD.

HTH,
Michael