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Grub v2 offers a powerful rescue mode. Now using this mode, may not be exactly a walk in the park for most inexperienced users out there, so here's a guide on how to easily fix your Grub with the Boot Repair tool.
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However, the PPA originates from Sourceforge, which, in my opinion, is no longer trustworthy.
The PPA is downloaded from Launchpad (hosted by the company Canonical which develops Ubuntu) and not from Sourceforge. The "Boot Repair" project hosts just an additional bootrepair CD image, that is not used in this tutorial, at sourceforge.
It's an excellent tool, has fixed problems with GRUB recognizing Windows after installing dual boots with Mint/Ubuntu - when needed can be installed on a Live USB and run from there. Easy as pie.
The Boot Repair CD does work & could care less whom hosts the downloads. After all, Linux is not Windows, so there's no need to be concerned about toolbars, search engine changers & other piggybacked software coming along for the ride. It just works most of the time. Sometimes it doesn't, this may be a sign of a broken OS, on the other hand maybe another tool can be used. If there were recent major changes to the system & it won't boot, then the chance of repair with any tool reduces.
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Says: sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found