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Jerry Feldman wrote: > 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 & 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. > > You should be able to boot your system from the Fedora installation > CD/DVD since when you choose Boot from Hard Disk, it does not use the > MBR. Once you have a running Fedora, you can run the system-config-boot > utility either from the command line as root, or from the > Applications/System Settings menu. This utility will fix your MBR. > >
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