[vox-tech] Reinstalling GRUB

[Mark Street]

grub-install /dev/hda

or whatever you boot device is...

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 11:05, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to reinstall GRUB from the command line?
>
> I had to reformat my Windows partition and so GRUB got eaten.  I checked
> various documentation, and even asked SuSE Support how to reinstall GRUB,
> but no one has given me the answer.
>
> There is a simple command for reinstalling LILO.  If I type /usr/sbin/grub
> I get a GRUB> prompt, but then I don't know what to do next.
>
> I finally figured out how to do it with YAST, and so I'm okay.  But I've
> seen too many GNOME and KDE GUI programs fail, and for something as
> important as installing a bootloader when Windows is in the neighborhood, I
> would feel more secure if I could reinstall GRUB from the command line.
>
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