[ale] RECOVER GRUB BOOTLOADER

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

Christopher -

On 3 Mar 2003, Christopher Russell wrote:

> Problem: LOST BOOTLOADER RH8.0
> I installed XP and lost the GRUB bootloader. How, please do I get it
> back?

I just went through this, and perhaps the same method will work. I booted 
RH-7.3, and as 'su' I ran 'grub-install --recheck'. This brought back the 
GRUB splash screen. I had replaced my one and only M$Win installation (a 
crufty '95') and had repartitioned 'hda' as part of the process. I made no 
changes to '/boot/grub/grub.conf' before, during, or after.

I also got back the choice of Linux kernels that was reflected in my 
'grub.conf' even though I had an older kernel on my boot diskette.

HTH.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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