[Gllug] CentOS boot problem

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:33:50PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> I visited the server and gave it a bit of TLC.
> The server was failing to even load grub second stage.
> It got as far as printing "GRUB" and then halting, no other messages.
> It did not even get to the grub command prompt.
> All I needed to do the fix it was to "grub-install --no-floppy
> /dev/sda"  using the "linux rescue" boot from the install CDs and
> chrooted to the HD filesystem.
> 
> I have absolutely no idea what corrupted the boot sectors.

Would it be dual boot with MS Windows and have Adobe s/ware on it ?
I heard something recently about Adobe keeping license type info in ''spare''
disk blocks immediately after the boot sector.

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