installing grub back to MBR

[Joachim Backes]

On 19.11.2015 16:38, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> Hj,
>
> I arranged differently  the position of the HD(s) installed on my
> computer and then, because this, Fedora didn't start regularly...
> (at  boot I  got only the emergency prompt of GRUB).
>
>
> I was able to start Fedora using the "disk GRUB 2 for recovery"..
> I and after this  tried to install grub back to the MBR..
>
>
> I tried this operation using the command :
> grub2 install /dev/sdc
>
> The command  ls -l /dev/sd*
>   give me this output :
> er at zorro ~]$ ls -l /dev/sd*
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8,  0 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sda
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8,  1 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdb
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdb1
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 18 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdb2
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 32 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdc
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 33 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdc1
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 34 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdc2
> brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 37 Nov 19 16:49 /dev/sdc5
>
> I used the command grub2 install /dev/sdc,thinking fedora is installed
> on /dev/sdc...

This is wrong: you must use "grub2_install /dev/sdc"

Kind regards

Joachim Backes


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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