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  1. Bug #610898
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 610898

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John McCourt (butterman) wrote : Re: "No such device" - grub-pc update renders computer unbootable

I had this problem with a Windows XP machine not booting after the update . Here's how I fixed it:

Made a bootable USB stick using the HP tool (I think)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&swItem=MTX-UNITY-I23839&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

1. Booted from an Ubuntu live cd
2. Used Ubuntu to find where c:\boot.ini was and copied that to the flash drive
3. Booted using the USB stick. This gave me the windows boot menu
4. Selected 'windows' and windows booted ok (if not you migth need to play around a litle with the boot.ini file)
5. Downloaded mbrfix from this site: http://www.ambience.sk/fdisk-master-boot-record-windows-linux-lilo-fixmbr.php
6. Used mbrfix as described on that page to fix the mbr on the hard disk. This will tell the hard disk to use the Windows boot menu rather than the
7. Rebooted the machine and it worked fine. The original windows boot menu was there so I could still choose between Windows and Ubuntu.