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Re: Boot sectors/devices



 On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:14:18 -0400 
"John Abreau" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Don Levey <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > Note in particular steps 3 &amp; 4.  I don't have "install-mbr" on Fedora (as 
> > far as I can tell) but figured "install-grub" would handle it.  Heh.  I ran 
> > it (on /dev/sdb, the USB stick) and tried to boot off the thing.  This 
> > failed.  I tried to boot off the main hard drive (with or without the USB 
> > stick plugged in) and received the same screen/error I got previously. 
> 
> 
> Yup, it sounds like you hosed the MBR again. You can boot off the Fedora 
> install CD into rescue mode, and fix it from there. i don't recall the 
> specifics 
> offhand, but I remember it was pretty straightforward, last time I had to 
> use the rescue CD to fix grub. 


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