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Tigrrr
22nd March 2009, 08:16 PM
hi all,
I find this highly embarrassing, but I can't find the answer, so I must ask for your help.

I have a dual boot system and I have killed the mbr, so normally I would boot into rescue mode and use the grub-install command (I have done this several times before).

But my computer is a netbook and has no optical drive. I have installed Fedora when I first got it, using liveusb-creator and a live image of Fedora 10. However, when I boot from this live usb, I have no rescue mode available. I tried adding "linux rescue" to the parameters, but that didn't do anything either.

Can anyone help me?

sideways
22nd March 2009, 08:28 PM
There is no rescue mode, but you can reinstall grub from the live session, see
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=214137

in particlular post #4 where stoat describes the various methods very clearly :)

Tigrrr
22nd March 2009, 09:24 PM

Thank you so very much! This worked - not right away, but after I had tweaked my grub.conf a little. I'm back on my system, hoooray :)

nerak99
10th December 2012, 01:04 PM
Mistakenly posted in oled thread
According to the docs, I can boot to rescue mode from a live CD. This is what the doscs say