14 DAY TRIAL // Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2, a tool that can help users get into an operating system that has a broken bootloader, has been officially released and is now available for download.
It doesn't matter if you are a Linux or Windows user because, at one time or another, you might have been confronted with a problem that prevented you from booting into your system. When that problem is a corrupted or missing boot loader, that can only mean that you have a serious issue.
This is where the Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2 comes into play. You can think of it as a live boot loader that can help you enter your system that is already on the hard drive. This is not a Linux distribution, but a more specialized Live tool.
“The former Super Grub2 Disk stable release was 1.98s1 version and released on October 2010 (more than three years ago). So as you might guess this release has many new features and supports more Operating Systems to boot.”
“Most of the features here will let you boot into your Operating Systems. The rest of the options will improve the Super Grub2 Disk operating systems autodetecting (enable RAID, LVM, etc.) or will deal with minor aspects of the user interface (Colours, language, etc.),” said the developer in the official announcement.
During the development of this very interesting tool some new features have been added. For example, the Everything option has been implemented in the menu and it should allow users to boot in most operating systems out there. On the other hand, the Everything Plus option will also detect most operating systems found in special devices or filesystems.
A number of functionalities that are not usually found by default in GRUB2 have been implemented in Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2, such as LVM support, RAID support, PATA support, encrypted volumes mounting, and serial terminal.
The number of supported operating systems goes on forever and includes Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1, Windows NT / 2000/XP, Windows 98 / ME, MS-DOS, Debian / Ubuntu / Mint, Mageia, Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), OpenSuSE / SuSE Linux Enterpsise Server (SLES), Arch, various BDS-based systems, and much more.
Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2 is a very small tool and weighs only a couple of MB. You can write it on a USB key, CD, and DVD and run it at boot.
Check the official changelog for more details about this release. You can download Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2 from Softpedia.