Re: Boot sectors/devices

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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