Re: [orca-list] Linux, Grub, and virus?

[Mallory van Achterberg <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

Yeah this is really off-topic.  What happened to the Ubuntu list?

You're running Lucid Lynx, so you have Grub2. You may not have a 
/dev/sda0.  I only have sda, sda1, sda2 etc.

On the ubuntu forums there's a step-by-step of installing Grub2 if
you have an Ubuntu live CD.  In your /boot folder there shouldn't
be much in there: grub and abi files, initrd.img's, System.maps and 
vmlinuz files. I don't know if the Windows stuff's in there because 
I don't do dual boot (I dunno if grub goes and calls the Windows loader
or how all that works).  VirtualBox is much easier and you lose less
hair, give it a try.

I'd check out http://help.ubuntu.com/community and ask in the Ubuntu
forums.  They are quite helpful.

-Mallory
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
>
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