fedora-list Digest, Vol 50, Issue 223

[Vincent Onelli]

>   1. Lost fc7 boot loader: (Vincent Onelli)
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> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:48:25 -0430
> From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Lost fc7 boot loader:
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1209496705.27290.42.camel at bree.homelinux.com>
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> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 14:59 -0400, Vincent Onelli wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any way to restore the boot loader? I made dome error,
>> reinstalled the windows XP without first back up all the data in
>> fedora.
>> I have an HP Pavilion zv6000 with AMD athlon 64, 80 GB and 1GB of
>> memory dual boot with windows and Fedora 7 (fc8 will not install in
>> this computer, I also posted this problem but I did not get any
>> answer) the HD is partition at 40GB each. I try to restore using fc7
>> original disk used for installation but it does not restore the boot
>> loader.
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> Do you have a Rescue disk? If so, use it to boot, do
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then "/sbin/grub-install". If your
> old /boot/grub.conf file is OK, grub should install the bootloader. You
> might want to check that grub.conf has an entry for Windows so your dual
> boot will still work.
 
> poc
> 
Thank you so much for the answer.
On the command /sbin/grub-install it return a message:
 "install device not specified
USAGE grub-install [OPTION] install device
so I entered: "/sbin/grub-install fedora7" 
this time was ok, but on reboot start the windows only.
what am I doing wrong?
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