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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Grub Loader entry overwritten Post 59423 by locustfurnace on Monday 20th of December 2004 05:34:15 AM
Old 12-20-2004
You dont need a Redhat Bootdisk, but if you would like one, you might be able to find the correct imgs for creating one, on Planetmirror.
You can use any LiveCD OS, such as SLAX, RescueCD. To recover your system. Boot the LiveCD, then once running,
cd /
mkdir TEST

Now mount the root Redhat (partition) system under Test, create any additional directories or mount the other necessary partitions underneath, example:
mount /dev/hda1 /TEST

Then change the current ROOT directory to the newly mounted dir.
chroot TEST

Since your now running on the RedHat system you should be able to navigate to where you need to go to reinstall the bootloader, run whatever it is to force a rewrite of the boot record.
 

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RHN_CHECK(8)							   Red Hat, Inc.						      RHN_CHECK(8)

NAME

       rhn_check - Check for and execute queued actions on RHN.

SYNOPSIS

       rhn_check [options]

DESCRIPTION

       rhn_check  is  a client program that connects to Red Hat Network (or a Red Hat Network Satellite) and receives queued actions for this par-
       ticular system.	After receiving the actions, rhn_check will then process them, and return the results to Red Hat Network.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	      Increase the debugging output.

       --proxy=PROXY
	      Specify an http proxy to use.

       --proxyUser=PROXYUSER
	      Specify a username to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyPassword.

       --proxyPassword=PROXYPASSWORD
	      Specify a password to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyUser.

       --version
	      Show the program's version number and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Show a help message and exit.

FILES

       /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
	      The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto Red Hat Network.  This file does not exist otherwise.

       /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
	      The common configuration file used by RHN client programs.

SEE ALSO

       rhn_register(8), rhnreg_ks(8), rhnsd(8), rhn-profile-sync(8), rhnplugin(8), up2date(5).

AUTHORS

       See the AUTHORS file included with this software.

       This manual page was written by James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com>

BUGS

       Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc.

       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
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