After up2date, MBR is gone... is this possible?

[David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A.]

Nah, forget it. There seems to be some Grubbish problem. Logged a bug in Red Hat Bugzilla.

--On Sunday, November 27, 2005 3:24 PM +0100 "David Tonhofer, m-plify S.A." <d.tonhofer at m-plify.com> wrote:

> And another one: I'm currently trying to rebuild a server that
> had its /boot partition blown away (some trouble with the md
> devices, I reckon). I reinstalled a RH ES 4.0 from scratch and
> copied the old salvaged /etc/syconfig/rhn/systemid file into the
> new installation to keep the license for that machine alive. I
> did not copy the rhn-uuid though. After that I ran up2date to
> get the latest updates and kernel images. Then I rebooted. The
> end result was that the MBR of the first harddisk was wiped clean
> (hot surprise!) so I'm currently doing a 'take two' at reinstallation. Is this a problem with my machine or Red Hat enforcing their licensing  terms (which I suppose would not be the
> case, but I'm paranoid)?
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- David