FC12 - Rebuilding /grub

rgm at htt-consult.com rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jan 22 20:20:47 UTC 2010


>> On 10-01-22 13:28:38, rgm at htt-consult.com wrote:
>>> I am still trying to recover my system.
>>>
>>> As I said, I saw that /boot/grub/grub.lst is Zero Bytes.
>>>
>>> Someone said that I can boot into recovery with the Install CD and
>>> run grub-install.
>>>
>>> Well I am now at the bash prompt via the recovery mode of the Install
>>> CD.
>>>
>>> I see that my drive is /dev/sda
>>>
>>> But I cannot find the grub-install program.  Where is it, and will
>>> this actually work???
>>>
>>> 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...
>>
>> You don't appear to have followed the Recovery steps to choose an
>> installed system and then chroot to it.
>>
> I figured that out.
>
> I have now gotten to the chroot and can see my system.  Still no grub.conf
> which I suspect is needed...

Well I ran yum-complete-transaction.

Now not only do I NOT have anything in /boot/grub/grub.conf

There is no kernel file in /boot

Seems I am getting deeper and deeper in trouble here.




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