Reinstate GRUB in MBR as default bootloader

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:35:41AM +0530, V P wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005 2:17 AM, Barry Yu <barryyupuilee at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > So I booted up the rescue CD again and get into recue mode;
> > chroot   /mnt/sysimage
> > grub-install  --recheck  /dev/hda
> > (Displayed below)
> > (fd0)   /dev/fd0
> > (hd0)  /dev/hda
> > (hd1)  /dev/hdb
> > 
> > And the I rebooted sytem, this time GRUB is reinstated and worked O.K.
> > 
> > My question; Why GRUB was corrupted (?), why grub-install /dev/hda won't
> > fix the problem but grub-install --recheck /dev/hda would?
> 
Because grub-install is flaky and the documentation says its flaky.
As I have said before when grub-install fails you fall back on:
grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> quit

Obviously (hd0,0) might be different for you.
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