DeBeau at aol.com wrote: > I have a dual boot program (GRUB) on my hard drive to boot Fedora or > Windows XP. I recently upgraded the System board, CPU and RAM. Now the > system does not go to the GRUB program but announces that it finds no > boot sector and suggests that it be booted from "A" drive. > How do I get it back to GRUB? 1. Boot from a grub floppy (if you can remember the partition names) http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Creating-a-GRUB-boot-floppy.html#Creating%20a%20GRUB%20boot%20floppy 2. On a separate working computer connected to the net burn a "Recovery Is Possible" Disk (or floppy) http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Log on as root (no passwd) Look at your partitions (assuming this is an IDE/ATA disk on the primary controller): # fdisk -l /dev/hda You may want to look at and/or make a backup of your menu.lst file (assume /boot is on /dev/hda3 for example, and this assumes you have a separate /boot partition) # mkdir /mnt/boot # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /mnt/boot # cd /mnt/boot/grub # cp menu.lst menu.sav # more menu.lst Consider re-installing grub... (Note there is a slight bug with the RIP disk that you can workaround here): # ln -s /usr/share/grub /usr/lib/grub # grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda Good luck! --Tom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 256 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050207/587f1217/signature.pgp