Hello All,

I've had a disk failure and need a little help on best way around it
have w2k on hd0
fedora core 1 on hd1
hd0 died (not like I lost anything valuable )
ok, pull cover off machine, throw windows drive in trashcan
make linux drive master
now I have no boot loader
what's the best way around this?
I guess I need to somehow make a bootdisc and then reinstall grub

Ideas??

Dave

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:02:51 -0500, drobbins <drobbins@cgn.net> wrote:
>Hello All,

>I've had a disk failure and need a little help on best way around it
>have w2k on hd0
>fedora core 1 on hd1
>hd0 died (not like I lost anything valuable )
>ok, pull cover off machine, throw windows drive in trashcan
>make linux drive master
>now I have no boot loader
>what's the best way around this?
>I guess I need to somehow make a bootdisc and then reinstall grub

see if your distro had a bootable CD. If so, boot it and see if there's
a "recover" mode where it'll reinstall a bootloader.

On 2004-01-08, drobbins <drobbins@cgn.net> wrote:

> I've had a disk failure and need a little help on best way around it
> have w2k on hd0
> fedora core 1 on hd1
> hd0 died (not like I lost anything valuable )
> ok, pull cover off machine, throw windows drive in trashcan
> make linux drive master
> now I have no boot loader
> what's the best way around this?
> I guess I need to somehow make a bootdisc and then reinstall grub

Boot from the install CD in "rescue" mode. Mount the linux partition,
chroot to the root of that partition, edit your grub config file
(remember that your linux disk is now hda instead of hdb) and reinstall
the boot loader.

--

-John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)

o.k. try this:

boot from your linux-cd. Choose
linux rescue

Redhat/Fedora will look for an installed linux.
You have to
( perhaps mount /mnt/sysimage )
chroot /mnt/sysimage

start grub with
grub

root (hd0,1) # linux root partiton
setup (hd0) # install in mbr
quit

this should install grub to the mbr. then
exit

bye

Tom