Hi Glenn. Your boot partition in Ubuntu would be the wrong place to look, rather if you're worried about boot sector viruses and the like, the MBR is the place to be. Assuming you in fact have such a virus and not in fact some sort of Windows rootkit or somesuch, the following will clear out your MBR so you can reinstall a fresh copy of Grub: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 Note that sda0 does not in fact, exist; partition numbers start from 1. Hope this helps. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 08:46:15PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
Hi, Forgive this being off-topic, but I cannot send messages to the Ubuntu list for some reason. I have a laptop that is set up as dual-boot, Ubuntu and Windows XP. I seem to have a virus which knocks out my desktop completely in windows. I have recovered on a few start-ups, but when I reboot, it comes back. I suspect that it is residing in the boot partition, because it takes about 3 to 5 minutes to get to the grub boot menu. Or maybe it is in my BIOS, which I don't look forward to, as I went to the manufacturer's site and could not find my model or the BIOS downloads. * I am wondering if I can clean the boot partition by running "update-grub" in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04), or if I need to do something like removing the boot partition, /dev/sda0 and install grub to have it recreated, if it will do that. I went into terminal and under sudo, I could not find /dev/sda0. I ran sudo update-grub, and it seemed to do that, but it did not fix the problem. This is grub 2.0, which came with Ubuntu. How many files should be in the boot partition, and how is the best way to access it in Ubuntu? Thanks for any ideas. Glenn _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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