grub was gone! What happened?

John Sutherland fedora at sneeu.com
Tue Feb 10 09:56:27 UTC 2004


Someone being funny with "fdisk /mbr" in Win? What did the machine do 
instead of loading grub?

John S.

Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> This morning i fire up my pc at job and grub has gone. Good morning. :)
> 
> Not a big issue. I put first cdrom from fc1, type a 'linux rescue', a
> chroot /mnt/sysimage and grub-install /dev/hda. It works again.
> 
> Now i wonder: what has happened? Not really familiar with this kind of
> logs, but where can i have a look and try to realize what happened to
> grub? It is important that i get an idea of what has happened: this is
> my job pc, i pushed so hard to be able to run fc1 and now i loose my
> boot loader. 
> 
> I didn't do anything specific yesterday, only installed and tested a bit
> f-prot. 
> 
> Any idea about what logs might help?
> 
> Thanks to everybody.
> 
> E.





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