Installing grub2 on /dev/sdb after /dev/sda died

[jdc18]

Hi,

I had 2 harddrives /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, in sda I had windows, and apparently that drive died.
So I removed /dev/sda, an booted with the fedora 16 DVD, chrooted to /mnt/sysimage, checked if everything in /etc/fstab was not pointing to /dev/sdb because my second harddrive should be now /dev/sda.
I checked /etc/default/grub and it seemed ok.
Then use grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Rebooted the computer but I just get a "-" flashing like grub is not recognized.

[Skull One]

You have to install grub in the MBR of that disc. What you did was just update its configuration.
Return with the chroot, and do:

grub2-install /dev/sda

then reboot, it should be ok.

[DBelton]

after you boot with the Fedora DVD and do the chroot to /mnt/sysimage and running the grub2-mkconfig, did you run a grub2-install? That is what actually writes the bootloader code to the boot sector

Boot again with the DVD and go to the chroot again, then

grub2-install --force --no-floppy /dev/sda

Edit:
Looks like Skull One has faster fingers than I do.

[jdc18]

Thanks, I am not use to grub2 yet, I forgot about that part.