Hosed Grub with the push of a button

[David Timms]

max wrote:
> I hosed grub. I need to fix it. I booted from fedora rescue. I chroot to 
> /mnt/sysimage. All good. I tried :
> 
> grub-install  /dev/sda
> 
> The  file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
> 
> tried:
> 
> grub-install /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> 
> The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly
> 
> 
> tried:
> 
> cd /boot/grub
> 
> cat stage1
> 
> output maybe human readable by some humans but not this one.
> 
> So far I can still see all the user files so I can backup and reinstall 
> but that wouldn't teach me anything.
> All suggestions/insults/how-to's welcome.
How about using the grub bits that are on the rescue media, rather than 
on the hosed disk ?

ie exit from the chroot, and then grub-install wherever ?
{Or my memory might have faded ?}

DaveT.