[vox-tech] Reinstalling GRUB

[Ken Bloom]

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:05:16AM -0800, Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to reinstall GRUB from the command line?
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> I had to reformat my Windows partition and so GRUB got eaten.  I checked=
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> various documentation, and even asked SuSE Support how to reinstall GRUB,=
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> There is a simple command for reinstalling LILO.  If I type /usr/sbin/gru=
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> get a GRUB> prompt, but then I don't know what to do next.

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install grub, but I don't know what it is - /usr/sbin/grub is a copy of=20
the bootloader itself but I don't know what its capabilities are.

Use the grub-install command which should be in the same directory.

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> I finally figured out how to do it with YAST, and so I'm okay.  But I've =
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> too many GNOME and KDE GUI programs fail, and for something as important =
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> installing a bootloader when Windows is in the neighborhood, I would feel=
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> more secure if I could reinstall GRUB from the command line.

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