Installing or restoring MBR?

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Wed Jul 19 00:10:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 14:35 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Sigh, I blew away my MBR so my Fedora cannot boot.
> 
> Can I use grub-install to restore my MBR or is there a seperate process for that?

What I do is:

1) Boot from rescue CD (first Fedora disk is fine)
2) Run grub from command line
3) Enter:
     root (hd0,0)
     setup (hd0)
     quit
4) reboot

Of course, change the above to suit your disk arrangement.

Cheers, Ben



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> Thanks!
> Dan
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