[ale] grub rescue

[Michael Trausch]

I know that I for one do not trust Windows for running on bare hardware.
It is constrained to a VM on my system, under VirtualBox.

It works pretty well there. As best as I can tell, native speed. In truth,
probably less, but not noticeably so.

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Please excuse any typos.
On Feb 21, 2012 10:49 PM, "Michael Campbell" <michael.campbell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> FWIW, after some scary episodes with dual booting and Windows' general
> anti-social behavior with it, I've moved to running a Windows host and my
> Ubuntu "machines" in a VM.  A Linux host with a Windows as a VM also works,
> but for my use not as well.
>
> With sufficient hardware, they run pretty well together, and I get the
> best (or at least the necessary bits) from both worlds, simultaneously, and
> I can even run my VM off a USB drive and carry it around with me and have
> my complete environment wherever I go.
>
> I use VirtualBox as my VM container.  No real problems so far to speak of.
>  I'm a Java server side developer, so am running WebSphere tools and Oracle
> on the VM as my day to day routine.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org>wrote:
>
>> **
>> ...and to think...Richard Stallman professed the use of "no password" as
>> a password to keep systems open and free.  Unfortunately the word "ethical"
>> is lost on too many in the world thus we are pressed to encrypt our file
>> systems.
>>
>> Glad you got your partition mounted and files copied!
>>
>> As for making the drive bootable again...reinstall GRUB?
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 15:28 -0500, John Pilman wrote:
>>
>> Here's an update on my progress with the scrambled partition table and
>> encrypted home directory.
>> Using dd I copied the hard drive and did the rest of this on the copy.
>> I ran testdisk from a live boot usb flash drive and was able
>> re-identify the unallocated partition as a linux partition and write
>> the partition table.
>> After a boot or two, gparted saw the partition as sda5.
>> Long story short for now, Ubuntu 11.04 includes the ultility
>> encryptfs-recover-private which was able to mount the encrypted
>> /home/john and I have now copied my files.
>> Caveat #1 - it took me a while to learn that my live boot usb Ubuntu
>> 11.04 had to be 64 bit since my original partition was 64 bit.
>> Caveat #2 - some of these steps were very time consuming.
>>
>> I next plan to try to see if I can make the hard drive bootable again.
>>
>> ...John
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM, John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the ideas. I am starting with a second hard drive and the
>> > dd command as Derek said and I am going to try to recreate how I go
>> > into this mess.  Understanding, at his point, is more valuable than
>> > the little bit of data since my last last backup.
>> >
>> > To partially answer some questions:
>> > The disk started with Windows 7 and I installed Ubuntu 10.10 with dual
>> > boot.  So the partition utility is the one used during the Ubuntu
>> > install.  Also, I vaguely remember a question about encryption during
>> > that process.  I can't say for sure whether the partition or just the
>> > home directory was encrypted.
>> > Also, I'm not sure where the boot record was.
>> >
>> > If possible, I will reinstall everything and then find those answers.
>> > At, the speed this dd is going, I have some free time to do more research.
>> > ...John
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Jim Lynch
>> > <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>> >> On 02/18/2012 05:19 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> >>> Once you make your copy, try making all your unallocated space into a
>> >>> single linux partition.  Then you can dd the first few MB off into a file
>> >>> (running a RAMDISK rescue environment, of course) and use 'file' to see if
>> >>> you got it right.  Were you using LVM?  Then from there you might be able
>> >>> to get lucky and find your partition endpoints.
>> >> Since you can now with grub2 boot from LVM that might be the answer.
>> >> I'm surprised that grub didn't recognize that.  I'd find a live cd or
>> >> Knopix cd that understands LVM and see if the partition contains LVM
>> >> volumes before I did anything rash.
>> >>
>> >> Jim.
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