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Bad Grub in Kubuntu 12.04

Follow Problem Posted by Renk81 on Jul 30, 2012

Just loaded Kubuntu 12.04 on a friend's computer. Fresh clean, over everything install. Runs Great, except for the GrUB.

Goes as follows:
>Power-on.
>GrUB, comes up. It is completely unreadable, half black half gray screen.
>timer runs out, OS comes up normally.

How do I fix this so GrUB is usable, or ignored all together at boot?

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5 Immortal on Aug 26, 2012

Level 9 I would try the following:
-Boot from the LiveCD
-Open terminal and type sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt (or whatever your sda is named)
-sudo grub-install /dev/sda --root-directory=/mnt
-sudo reboot

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1 Gamester on Jul 30, 2012

Level 2 Why don't you try to reinstall or repair the GRUB from the Live CD?

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2 Renk81 on Aug 03, 2012

Level 3 what commands do I run, files do i replace

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