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I am guessing that you don't have a bootdisk created for FC6.
If you have a live CD, or can get one, with grub on it you should be able to do it from there. I don't know how to use grub, but my guess is that you could copy the grub config file to the 'live' system thats running, and reinstall it that way. Or if that doesn't work, what I usually do is chroot to the root directory of my distro from a live CD, although I am not sure if this is necessary, I just tried it and it worked. That was with lilo though. I would like to be of more help, but I can't remember anything about the FC6 installer.
Last edited by johngreenwood; 02-18-2007 at 08:08 PM.
I am guessing that you don't have a bootdisk created for FC6.
If you have a live CD, or can get one, with grub on it you should be able to do it from there. I don't know how to use grub, but my guess is that you could copy the grub config file to the 'live' system thats running, and reinstall it that way. Or if that doesn't work, what I usually do is chroot to the root directory of my distro from a live CD, although I am not sure if this is necessary, I just tried it and it worked. That was with lilo though. I would like to be of more help, but I can't remember anything about the FC6 installer.
I have dvd fc6. I only need to install the GRUB and thats it. Because the contents of my fc6 is still in slave hdd. I only need to fix the grub
You should be able to boot from the Fedora install disk.. Once it boots up, do ctrl-alt-F1 to get a command-line (terminal mode)
We need to know what partition the /boot directory is on. Let's assume hdb1. We're also assuming that you have 2 IDE/PATA drives--hda and hdb
To install GRUB, do this:
Code:
grub starts the grub shell
root (hd1,0) tells grub that /boot is on drive 2, partition 1 (grub counts from zero)
setup (hd0) puts grub on the mbr of drive 1
reboot
If you cannot get a command line using the install disk, you can do the above from any "live CD" linux distro.
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