On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 10:51, Mike Manchester wrote:
> A friend of mine has managed to destroy his MBR. He upgraded his windows
> and windows over wrote the MBR. I know that with lilo you could just
> boot into rescue mode and run lilo and you were good to go. But for the
> life of me I can't figure out how to get the system to boot using Grub
> again. I've searched the web and looked a the man and info pages. But
> still have not figured out how to do this and what we have tried haa not
> worked. Including going through the upgrade and only selecting the Grub
> boot manager. This is on a Redhat 7.3 system.
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated.
>
> Mike M.
I'm not sure if you already got an answer to this or not. In any case,
just run the the command "grub-install /dev/hda" assuming that you have
a boot disk so you can get RH booted again.(you might have to run
"/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda" if sbin is not in your path)
Hope this helps.
Lee
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