I was hesitant to congratulate myself on restoring /boot and /boot/grub *if* linux-rescue had done it. So, with the help of this forum I did get things back in order other than updating the MBR, and that was done by linux-rescue.
Onward...and again, thank you.
Todd
P.S. I would download SL6 if it was not for the fact that I live out here with cows as my pets, so downloading is an all day affair...I have the 7 disks in hand.
On 3/24/2011 6:49 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
centos-bounces@centos.org wrote:
Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked.
After starting the Linux Repair, the process "found my installed Linux". Some of you will remember that I had accidentally erased the /boot and /boot/grub directories, but I had most of the files saved (not the symbolic links) and put them back into the directories *and* I did run a rpm reinstall.
The boot partition was still there, and its files in its trash directory, or the entire boot directory was in the '/' trash along with all the contents thereof. Putting the files (or dir and files) back was what you did by hand.
When Linux Repair "found the installed Linux", did it create a new /boot and /boot/grub *or* did it just use what I had put there?
I understood that you understood that you were de-trashing your old boot directory contents, yes?
[I am now downloading Centos 5.5 which I'll install on a new drive and then face the challenges of moving my backup data to the new OS]
Todd
Grab SL6 (two DVDs) and make 1 install instead of 1 install and 1 or 2 upgrades.
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