Re: Boot sectors/devices

["Don Levey-7" <user=51@nabble.blu.org>]

 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 &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. 
> 
> 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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