Boot Loader recovery

Warren Sturm wrsturm at mtroyal.ca
Sat Apr 1 17:19:19 UTC 2006




On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 09:02 -0800, M.K wrote:
> I went to the  linux rescue mode, then in
> the  /mnt/sysimage
> I tried :
> /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
> I got this error:
> /sbin/grub: Not fund
> 

I ran into the same thing when I didn't chroot /mnt/sysimage.

You can get around it with an ln -s /usr/sbin/grub /sbin/grub

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/sysimage /dev/hda


> any help
> Thanks 
> 
> On 3/31/06, yonas abraham <yonas at erimp3.com> wrote:
>         Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>         >> M.K wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> I have Suse's CDs.
>         >>> How could I use suse's feature to fix Grub, when I have
>         FC3
>         >>>
>         >> installed.
>         >> 
>         >>> Could you explain more detail.
>         >>> Thanks,
>         >>>
>         >> If you lost your grub boot loader, you could follow the
>         >> following step
>         >> to recover it
>         >>
>         >> 1) reboot to the CD1 or DVD
>         >> 2) hit F5
>         >> 3) on the command line type   linux rescue
>         >>  it should find your Fedora installed system and enter
>         >> 4)chroot /mnt/sysimage
>         >>  5)/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda 
>         >>  that should put Grub back to MBR.
>         >>
>         >>
>         > I believe the procedure outlined above is the same procedure
>         you
>         > can use with the Fedora Boot install CD.
>         > That is what I have done after upgrading to a new hard
>         drive 
>         > to reinstall grub.
>         >
>         > Bob Styma
>         >
>         >
>         Opps, The instruction I provided above is using Fedora CD1 or
>         DVD. I
>         have never used SUSE CD's
>         
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