Hosed Grub with the push of a button

[Jim Webb]

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.
>
> Max
>
Max,
I looked this up on Red Hat's KBase:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Installation_Guide/s2-rescuemode-boot-reinstall-bootloader.html

Hope this helps,
Jim