GRUB will not be overwritten

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 27 16:45:23 UTC 2005


Terry Polzin wrote:

>On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:45, Krzysztof Kujawski wrote:
>  
>
>>I haven't wiped out any partitions.
>>I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage as rescue CD let me.
>>
>>But I don't know how to exit and reboot from shell -- rescue CD wrote that
>>after command chroot /mnt/sysimage
>>exit from shell and the system will be reboot.
>>
>>Exit not results in rebooting.
>>
>>Id this command in one line?
>>
>>chroot /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install /dev/hd(3)
>>    
>>
>
>No, it's two command lines 
>chroot /mnt/sysimage -- makes the / command tree you would have after a normal 
>boot effective ( you are no longer running commands from the 
>rescue /bin, /sbin directories)
>
>The /sbin/grub-install /dev/hd(x) should re-write the MBR.
>
>Then exit twice, the first one will return you to the rescue environment, the 
>second will reboot the system.
>  
>
Now that I've done this, when I select /dev/hdb1 to boot from in GAG, I 
get a grub> prompt?  How can I get this to show me the option for Fedora 
or boot directly into fedora?




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