On 16/04/2008, max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm willing to try it but i'm not really sure what your suggesting.If > i exit from the chroot and grub-install how will it write to the > appropriate place? At this point all the user data is recoverable and > i'd like to keep it that way but if in the course of learning I hose > that too, well i'm willing to take the chance but i'd like to avoid it > if possible. If you're certain it's merely grub that's the problem, try copying the grub rpm into the system image, and re-install it. Or first try rpm -V in the chroot, to see if that gives any hints.