[Gllug] Installing grub from a recovery CD

[Doug Winter]

John Winters wrote:
>>	grub-install /dev/hda
> 
> 
> According to the man page for grub-install this does *not* do what I
> want.  All I need to do is reinstall the element of grub which lives in
> the MBR.

It still does what you want.  It also copies the various images into the 
boot directory, but it's not a problem if they are already there.

If you have grief with this, then run the grub shell and use the setup 
command in there.

> This is what puts me off grub - the documentation is *still* very poor,
> and in particular it uses terms like "root directory" to mean something
> different from what it usually means, *without first saying what the
> re-definition is*.

yes, the documentation is pretty shonky.  I think it's a better product 
than lilo, but it's perversely difficult to use.  Some decent 
documentation would go a long way.

doug.

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