FC12 - Rebuilding /grub

rgm at htt-consult.com rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jan 22 19:22:03 UTC 2010


>> I am still trying to recover my system.
>>
>> As I said, I saw that /boot/grub/grub.lst is Zero Bytes.
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> oops.  that is /boot/grub/grub.conf
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>> Someone said that I can boot into recovery with the Install CD and run
>> grub-install.
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>> Well I am now at the bash prompt via the recovery mode of the Install
>> CD.
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>> I see that my drive is /dev/sda
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>> But I cannot find the grub-install program.  Where is it, and will this
>> actually work???
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> I worked out that I did not select 'continue' while getting into recovery.
>  Now I have my system.
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>> I hope that after this I will get back into my system and can then run
>> the
>> yum-continue (or whatever the full name is) program to finish the
>> recovery...
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> Do I run "grub-install /dev/sda" to rebuild grub.conf?
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well I did some trying and ran "grub-install /dev/sda --recheck"

grub.conf still empty....

rebooting from the hard drive just takes me to the grub> prompt.




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