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Re-install grub in Debian 8 Jessie

So I was trying to install Debian Jessie beta 2 (Debian 8) and was not really paying attention what I was doing. It ended up that I don't grub installed.So who do you fix this? As usual in Linux/Debian there so many ways to do this but below are the steps that I have done: Boot the machine using the boot media, I was using debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-netinst.iso and yes I am using VirtualBox. Select Advanced options | Rescue mode. Follow text based wizard, change the values as you see fit. I did English for Select a language . Then United States for Select your location . American English for Configure the keyboard . Used debian in Configure the network - note that this does not have to match to the machine that you want to recover.  Left blank for the domain. Then for Configure the clock I selected Central . In Enter rescue mode , I have selected /dev/sda1 as I only have one SATA HD and I know that the first partition was my root. You probably to make guesses if you wan

PyCharm 3.4 Community Edition does not support Tfs Integration

PyCharm 3.4 Community is a very fine IDE and I cannot complain. But for some of the stuff that I do I need to use Tfs as source control. I spent quite a few hours searching the web how to enable Tfs integration in PyCharm but I can't find a good documentation that says you can't not use in PyCharm. But IntelliJ IDEA feature comparison matrix shows that Tfs Integration is only available in Ultimate.  So it must be the case that Tfs Integration is only available in Professional version or it just does not work.

Unable to mount VirtualBox shared drive using 4.3.10

When mounting a shared drive in VirtualBox 4.3.10, got he following error in Linux box: sudo mount -t vboxsf E_DRIVE vbox mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on E_DRIVE,        missing codepage or helper program, or other error        (for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might        need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program)        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try        dmesg | tail  or so This is caused by wrong symbolic link, to fix it do: ~$ sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/VBoxGuestAdditions/mount.vboxsf /sbin/mount.vboxsf References: http://superuser.com/questions/736024/cannot-share-host-directory-with-virtualbox-guest-mint-16-64-bit