A follow-up. I struggled with this for another hour or so, trying different approaches including Rob's excellent instructions below and the Super Grub Disk(!) but was not able to get grub working the way it's meant to - probably mostly due to my limitations because there's a lot I don't know about this. Finally, threw in the towel and just reinstalled. Everything's back to semi-normal, at least I can boot and have all of my files, just needing to reconfigure (thank you EasyLife!). And thanks for the help.
Kevin On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:05:47 -0700 Rob Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Question: there are two parts to grub, so depending on what's broken. > How far does your machine get before it stops booting? Do you get > "Operating System Not Found" or an error from grub? > > The brute force way to fix both problem is (from memory, YMMV): > > 1) Boot off a rescue cd; fedora's should work fine > 2) when prompted "Try to mount your file systems", click yes > this will try to map your root drive to /mnt/sysimage, your boot > drive to /mnt/sysimage/boot and all of your other file systems under > /mnt/sysimage > 3) drop to a shell > 4) chroot /mnt/sysimage > 5) `grub-installer /dev/XXX` where XXX is your boot partition; might > not be necessary if grub is already partially working > 6) fix the symlink that you broke/make sure that grub.conf is ok or run > 7) exit (from the chroot) > 8) umount -a (might be redundant) > 9) reboot > > Good luck, > > > - Rob > . > > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > First of all, I messed up. I edited my grub.conf file and now can't boot. > > What I know is this: > > > > /etc/grub.conf link (broken) > > > > /boot/grub/grub.conf ..... is gone missing > > > > I use Fedora 12, dual-boot with XP, and have struggled to find direction > > for restoring this. Thought I could just go back into the file and undo > > what I'd done (only added a # attempting to comment out unwanted verbiage > > from my boot screen). Lesson learned!! Haven't found how to reinstall grub. > > > > Last resort would be to save what I need and reinstall. Uggh. > > > > Any ideas? I offer my gratitude, and if it would help, last minute > > assistant on your 1040. Not a CPA but I know what I'm doing. > > > > Kevin > > > >
