[NBLUG/talk] Need help in "repairing" the booting of my Linux 4 server

E Frank Ball III frankb at frankb.us
Mon Mar 21 16:47:24 PDT 2011


On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 03:52:07PM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
 > As I shared on this forum last week, I did a bad boo boo when I
 > erased my /boot/ directory without a backup - all of the things I
 > caution other NOT to do.  Nevertheless, after trying to put things
 > back in order, today I decided to try a reboot and I get a GRUB
 > prompt.
 > 
 > Next I have put my Linux 4 disk one in the CD drive and have
 > selected the "linux repair" mode which has put me into the
 > /mnt/sysimage with the # prompt.  That is as far as I have gone
 > since I am in uncharted waters.
 > 
 > Help!  It has found and identified that I have a Linux
 > system...what should I try next?
 > 
 > Todd


You need to re-run grub.  Your running CentOS? Fedora? What version?
I've forgotten legacy grub commands, so you'll have to look that up.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us



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