Recovering MBR

[James Marcinek]

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:30 -0500, dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:
> > Use CD #1 or your Rescue CD (whatever works) and run:
> > 
> > # grub-install /dev/hda
> > 
> > on whatever hard disk (hda, sda, ...) your system boots from. This
> > will
> > overwrite the Windows MBR with Grub's and you'll be back in
business.
> 
> Having forgotten this key piece of advice in my post to an earlier
> thread, I'm sensitive to the fact that you must first have your
> installation tree mounted (under /mnt/sysimage for the default approach
> with the rescue boot from CD), then chroot to the mount point:
> 
>   # chroot /mnt/sysimage
> 
> It is also good to have a GRUB boot floppy prepared for such cases:
> 
>   # grub-install /dev/fd0
> 
> And/or see
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg05739.html
> 
> and check out the attachment.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
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I did have to add those to my process. I used the recovery disks that came with
the Wide Open magazine.

Thanks,

James