Re-install Grub in MBR

All the problems I have had recently meant that the MBR also got corrupted and therefore Grub hung. I fixed it by booting from a live CD and opening a terminal. Then typing:
sudo grub This will give you a grub prompt
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
grub> root (hd0,0) or whichever partition has the grub files, here first partition on first drive.
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit (hd0)

That’s it, Grub will be installed on the first hard drive.

Mondorescue is broken in Ubuntu

Mondo doesn’t work with Gutsy. Compare will tell you you have a good dvd but when you need to use it it will fail!

I have tried the suggestions here and downloaded the versions of Mondo and Mindi directly from the Mondorescue website, but there is then another issue preventing Mondorestore from working. With the versions downloaded from the Mondorescue website when I boot the dvd and choose nuke I get a “Kernel panic – not syncing. Attempted to kill init!”. Compare however shows the dvd as good.

I have now lost my system because of the original problem and by checking the Mondorescue dvds by trying a restore I have discovered that there are other issues preventing a restore of the data even though the compare function shows the dvds as good.

So after nearly nine years of using Mondo it’s goodbye.

I will decide on a new backup strategy and post here when I find a solution that works for me.