[oclug] repair deleted /boot

[Michael Thomas]

Ian! D. Allen wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:57:29PM -0500, Michael Thomas wrote:
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>>In a moment of stupidity I deleted /boot and parts of  /bin during an 
>>archive. I restored the files (in rescue mode), but my box no longer 
>>boots. When grub should be loading, the machine instead reboots.
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>I believe when you install grub it copies the absolute disk block
>locations of various grub files into the grub bootloader.  If you move
>those grub files (as in delete/restore), the bootloader can't find them
>on reboot.  Depending on which ones it can't find, you get more or less
>info from grub.
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>Boot from your rescue floppy and re-install grub, which should reset
>the bootloader to use the new block locations for the grub files.
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 Aha! Thanks very much for the timely reply. I had been mucking about 
with grub for the last hour or so trying to figure out how to revive 
things. I re-installed as you suggested and am back in business.
 
 Thanks again,

 Mike.

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