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How to recover GRUB

1. Boot from a Live CD, like Ubuntu Live, Knoppix, Mepis, or similar.

2. Open a Terminal. Go SuperUser (that is, type “su”). Enter root passwords as necessary.

3. Type “grub” which makes a GRUB prompt appear.

(2 & 3. Or just “sudo grub”)

4. Type “find /boot/grub/stage1”. You’ll get a response like “(hd0)” or in my case “(hd0,3)”. Use whatever your computer spits out for the following lines.

5. Type “root (hd0,3)”.

6. Type “setup (hd0,3)”. This is key. Other instructions say to use “(hd0)”, and that’s fine if you want to write GRUB to the MBR. If you want to write it to your linux root partition, then you want the number after the comma, such as “(hd0,3)”.

7. Type “quit”.

8. Restart the system. Remove the bootable CD.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-24113.html

In September 2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer admitted that 60% of servers run Linux versus 40% that run Windows Server.
Parecido razonable con depilación

Accidente en el almacén

Predicción:

Si Ubuntu sigue así como lo está haciendo, predigo lo siguiente: En 5 años el bug #1 será resuelto, con un Windows en plena caida libre y muchas de las “tecnologías” de Microsoft en general. Incluso probablemente Microsoft como empresa ya vaya en caida libre a no ser que apueste a otros sectores donde todavía pueda robar con el propietarismo (que cada vez serán menos). Stallman tenía razon…

“Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world’s population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.”

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