Help I hosed my boot loader Fedora Core will not boot.

[Samuel Flory]

M.Hockings wrote:
> Caleb Rodriguez wrote:
> 
>> I was messing around and tried to installyet another distro (Mandrake 
>> 9.2) i did the defaults. I already had xp dual booted with Fedora Core 
>> 1 working perfectly. I decided to experiment and install another 
>> distro since I could not get Xandros to install.  Anyway here is the 
>> story. I went to install Mandrake 9.2 and all seemed to go well. When 
>> I rebooted grub only gave me the options for mandrake and windoze. I 
>> booted into windoze to remove the mandrake partitions and cleared my 
>> restore.
>> My system only boots in the other OS and I want to go back and be able 
>> to boot from either one. The partitions for Fedora Core 1 are still 
>> intact. I just need to know what to do besides reinstall. I do not 
>> wish to lose any of my data.
>>
>> Help please..
>> Thanks
> 
> 
> Having been in a similar situation (can only boot Windows on a 
> Windows/RH Linux machine)  I used the RH install CD and did an "upgrade" 
> install and told it to upgrade the boot installer (grub in my case).  It 
> did that, determined that no updates were required and all was fine on 
> reboot.
> 
> Other than than you can boot the CD in recover (or is it repair? -- 
> there is some help when you boot the CD) mode and use that to fix the 
> boot parms.
> 

   Boot the cdrom in rescue mode.  "linux rescue"  Then follow allow the 
installer to mount your root partition. Then just chroot into the 
mounted filesystem and run "grub-install /dev/hda" (or sda for scsi, and 
sata or raid systems systems)


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