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Rajat Gupta
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I want to know that is there any way of booting pc with smartphone without root because my laptop has grub rescue error and I have no bootable media and I am not able to borrow anyone laptop to create a bootable pendrive. Anyboot is application which is not available in playstore but which claims to do this but I am not able to find any APK. 

 

Thanks in advance!!!!

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Not that I'm aware of. Just get a flash drive, they're cheap (really cheap).

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13 minutes ago, Rajat Gupta said:

I want to know that is there any way of booting pc with smartphone without root because my laptop has grub rescue error and I have no bootable media and I am not able to borrow anyone laptop to create a bootable pendrive. Anyboot is application which is not available in playstore but which claims to do this but I am not able to find any APK. 

 

Thanks in advance!!!!

Anyboot emulates an OS on your Android so, you can't connect that to your laptop.

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Even though Android phones are able to connect to computers to browse them, I wouldn't write an operating system to it since it would likely destroy data if it tries to format the data on the phone, plus I really doubt the phone would allow any type of MBR to be written to the data partition. For that matter, I doubt it would allow any type of partition changes at all, which are usually necessary for any live medium.

 

On the other hand, what distro do you run? Are you getting a prompt like this"

 

 

grub rescue>

 

or this?

 

grub>

 

Sounds to me like you may have nuked your installation. :(

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