Hosed Grub with the push of a button

[Bill Crawford]

On 16/04/2008, max bianco <maximilianbianco at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm willing to try it but i'm not really sure what your suggesting.If
>  i exit from the chroot and grub-install how will it write to the
>  appropriate place? At this point all the user data is recoverable and
>  i'd like to keep it that way but if in the course of learning I hose
>  that too, well i'm willing to take the chance but i'd like to avoid it
>  if possible.

If you're certain it's merely grub that's the problem, try copying the
grub rpm into the system image, and re-install it. Or first try rpm -V
in the chroot, to see if that gives any hints.