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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: cdhgold on 23 April 2003, 19:57

Title: need help to recover GRUB
Post by: cdhgold on 23 April 2003, 19:57

I'm Dual booting a system at work with w2kpro and redhat9.0 .. 2 hhds .. w2k on first one with redhat on second both old scsi drives .. I had it dual booting with GRUB as the boot loader and had to reload w2k( no surprise) I can now get to linux with my backup boot floppy but how can I get grub back in place so I can get back to linux with out the floppy?

any help is greatly appreciated
Chris

Title: need help to recover GRUB
Post by: SAJChurchey on 23 April 2003, 20:04

As root,

Try to run grub-install /dev/hda.

If it doesn't want to work straight from the terminal. Mount your boot floppy and run grub-install off of it.

Title: need help to recover GRUB
Post by: cdhgold on 23 April 2003, 20:30

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Originally posted by SAJChurchey:
As root,

Try to run grub-install /dev/hda.

If it doesn't want to work straight from the terminal. Mount your boot floppy and run grub-install off of it.

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thanks I tried that and it worked great!!!

Chris
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