[ale] GRUB issue on boot

[Ryan Fish]

How do I reinstall grub?  When I try to use RPM it just tells me the package is already installed (of course it is...).

Thank you.
-Ryan


> 
> From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> Date: 2006/04/13 Thu AM 09:39:54 EDT
> To: FishR at bellsouth.net,  "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] GRUB issue on boot
> 
> Install lilo. I don't know why distributions are moving to Grub. I
> have never seen an installation of it that doesn't screw up at some
> point. I recently added a kernel switch to the Grub config on my SuSE
> 10.0 box and it caused my machine to reboot every time Grub started to
> load. I reinstalled Grub several times and the same thing kept
> happening. Surprise, surprise, I installed lilo, with a basic config,
> and I could boot my machine again.
> 
> Just grab a copy of SysRecueCd (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page),
> boot from it, mount your root partition, and chroot to it. Then you
> can try to re-install Grub or install a boot manager that is more
> stable (doesn't suck).
> 
> On 4/13/06, Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a RHEL3 ES server that is scrolling "grub" across the screen after a
> > reboot (I installed the latest kernel the other day).  What would cause this
> > and how can I fix it?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > -Ryan
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