While surfing the web this weekend, I came across the following procedure for reinstalling grub from the command line:
1. Boot the system from an installation boot medium.
2. Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to enter the rescue environment.
3. Type chroot /mnt/sysimage to mount the root partition.
4. Type /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda to reinstall the GRUB [...]
If you have ever had to deal with a sick Redhat server, you may be familiar with the rescue, emergency and singler-user modes of operation. I have heard people refer to rescue modes incorrectly, which can sometimes lead to some interesting stories (there are several slight subtleties between them). To clear up any confusion surrounding [...]
I performed a Fedora core 4 installation today, and for some reason the root password I typed in during the installation got munged (or I typed it incorrectly two times). Since Fedora Core uses grub as a boot loader, I was able to recover from this situation relatively quickly.
To get to a shell [...]
