On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 18:57 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I'm seeing a very strange corrupted boot sector, and it has now happened > twice (in several months). > > My 32 bit boot partition was fine the last time I booted, but today, I > tried it and it prints the word GRUB on the screen, then proceeds to copy > the screen to the printer port over and over again (making me hasten to > remove the paper from the printer). I had something similar happen to me, but not the part about printing. Just about GRUB not booting. Happened twice in the past 2 months, with FC6. Things seemed to point to faulty hardware to the point of me buying a new hard drive, but I ran a bunch of diagnostic checks on my hard drives and they all pass. > Now I gotta go off and figure out how to reinstall grub again (I have > a procedure for reinstalling on the MBR, but this grub is just on the > partition's boot sector, so I guess there will be some differences > in the recovery procedures). GRUB is on my MBR, so to reinstall it I booted off the rescue CD, did a chroot /mnt/sysimage, and then grub-install /dev/sda Your install procedure will be slightly different. My guess is grub-install /dev/sda1 or something like that, but you'd better check carefully because I don't know all that much about GRUB. Dan > >
