> 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? When booting into "rescue" mode with the RH/CentOS installer disk, it searches for filesystems that look like a Linux installation and mounts them so you can fix them. The rescue system doesn NOT change anything - that was you who did it by running grub-install or whatever. So, I think nothing has changed in your /boot directory despite the things grub-install may have touched. Simon