On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > -- Well I did start in the middle or rather I eliminated many (i felt at 10:30pm)unnecessary details. The dell laptop used to have XP installed. There is a button called the Dell Media Direct Button, its about 2 inches to the left of the power button. I pressed it(unintentionally) instead of power and subsequently it went looking for windows and didn't find it. It hosed the graphical grub. I rebooted and got a grub terminal. That wasn't getting me anywhere, i'm not terribly familiar with the grub terminal, i tried for a while. That's when I broke out the rescue disk and tried what I mentioned above. Max
