It’s well past midnight over here so I’ll try to keep it short. I will present you a new feature of the GRUB2 Editor: recovering GRUB (from a Live CD). A new feature that hopefully many user-friendly distributions will adore because it bypasses the intimidating console when trying to recover GRUB, for example when installing Windows after your Linux distribution; an action that will erase GRUB from the MBR(=Master Boot Record) and render your Linux setup unbootable. I’ll let some screenshots do the talking:
Live CD Welcome Screen
Recover Screen
Installing(=Recovering) GRUB
Job Done!
So, firstly you are presented with two options when launching the GRUB Editor from a Live CD (screenshot #1); choosing the recovery option provides you with a list of detected partitions along with some information to help you determine where your previous installation resides (screenshot #2), picking a partition and Applying will initiate the installation process (screenshot #3) which will hopefully lead you to screenshot #4.
This post was published in hoping for feedback before making the next release (which will happen anytime soon). So any suggestions/insults are more than welcome 
PS: Screenshots and testing done on a Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Live CD.
openSUSE already includes GUI recovery utilities on the liveCD, one o which recovers GRUB
Ah good to know. Will check it out
You sure? It thought they removed this in more recent versions. I haven’t been able to find it, at any rate.
This is awesome! I am very happy to see KDE do more system management again.
Cheers to you!
Glad you like it
This is exactly what people need. Grub failures happen and they are the most frustrating things that can happen. Users must have a way to solve the problem quickly without spending hours trying to understand how grub works or learning to use the grub shell.
Yep, that’s the point. It doesn’t try to handle all GRUB failures or cases which need expertise to solve; it is just a quick way to recover GRUB for the most common cases.
Hi there! I stopped by and just wanted to let you know that I’m appreciating your great work!
Thanks for feedback
Having run into this once, I’m glad to see your work. I’ll link this blog to my blogpost about grub difficulties.
Thanks!
Hope it will help other users, who run into your problem, too.
Cool. Consider hiding the “Details”-part in “sucessfully installed GRUB” if no errors were present.
It’s hidden by default, I just expanded it for the screenshot
I approve! loL
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Very nice. As some people pointed out, opensuse has had something like this for a long time, but it doesn’t really help you if you don’t use opensuse
In conclusion: awesome, and let’s get this onto every KDE-based livecd!
You kept it a bit too short. I don’t even know what this program you’re talking about is. I installed u-lite on a USB key but it went and installed GRUB and fucked up the boot sequence on my laptop. U-lite is such a shitty obscure OS that I can’t find any info on how to fix this problem.
I am talking about GRUB2 Editor. (Hint: there is a link in the first line of the text body)