FC12 - Rebuilding /grub

[rgm at htt-consult.com]

>>> 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.
>
Well, I think I am giving up.  Off for the next 24 hours.  I backed up
/home and when I get back I will just do a reinstall.  Perhaps if I copy
/var/log/yum.log I can figure out what I installed to quickly get back to
where I was....