On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Todd Cary <todd at 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.