{"id":6371,"date":"2016-11-14T14:07:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2016-11-14T14:07:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:07:30","slug":"install-boot-repair-ppa-fix-boot-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/install-boot-repair-ppa-fix-boot-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Boot-Repair via PPA in Ubuntu to Fix Boot Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-icon.png\" alt=\"boot-repair-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Boot Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues for Linux, Windows, and other OSes. It&#8217;s free, open-source, and easy to use (repair in one click).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By booting up your PC into Ubuntu \/ Debian via a live-CD or live-USB, then installing Boot-Repair in the live system, just launch Boot-Repair, then click the &#8220;Recommended repair&#8221; button will automatically detect the problems and recover access to your OSes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-450x262.jpg\" alt=\"boot-repair\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-450x262.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When repair is finished, note the URL (paste.ubuntu.com\/XXXXX) that appears on a paper, then reboot and check if you recovered access to your OSs. If the repair did not succeed, indicate the URL to the support email in order to get help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-finish.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-finish-450x230.jpg\" alt=\"boot-repair-finish\" width=\"450\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-finish-450x230.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-finish-600x307.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-finish.jpg 1093w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Boot Repair features:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows10).<\/li>\n<li>recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>recover access to any OS if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, or derivative.<\/li>\n<li>repair MBR-locked OEM computer boot<\/li>\n<li>repair the boot when you have the &#8220;GRUB Recovery&#8221; error message<\/li>\n<li>reinstall GRUB2\/GRUB1 bootloader easily<\/li>\n<li>and much more ! (UEFI, SecureBoot, RAID, LVM, Wubi, filesystem repair&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to install boot-repair in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and derivatives so far, boot-repair is available for install via its <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~yannubuntu\/+archive\/ubuntu\/boot-repair\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu\/boot-repair<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-ppa-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"boot-repair-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-ppa-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-ppa-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/boot-repair-ppa.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Then update and install boot-repair:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install boot-repair<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, launch boot-repair from Unity Dash or App Launcher.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boot Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues for Linux, Windows, and other OSes. It&#8217;s free, open-source, and easy to use (repair in one click). By booting up your PC into Ubuntu \/ Debian via a live-CD or live-USB, then installing Boot-Repair in the live system, just launch Boot-Repair, then click the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1390],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-boot-repair"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}