On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Todd Cary todd@aristesoftware.com 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.
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 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
If you're referring to the "linux rescue" and using "chroot /mnt/sysimage", it just used what it found there.