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Yesterday I needed to fix the MBR of a ProLiant (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1) by reinstalling grub and grub-install just won’t work. grub-install assumes that the boot device is in the form /dev/hda or /dev/sda and since most ProLiant use a SmartArray RAID controller its boot device is typically /dev/cciss/c0d0.

So, in order to recover this is what I did:

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There are times when you inadvertently overwrite your Master Boot Record. The end result being that you are unable to boot into Linux. This is especially true when you are dual booting between windows and Linux OSes. Once when I was working in Windows XP, I accidentally clicked the hibernate button instead of shutdown. And windows somehow overwrote my MBR which housed the GRUB boot loader. At such times, it pays to have this cool tip at hand.

This is what you do to restore the GRUB boot loader when faced with the above problem. First you need a Linux distribution CD. If you are using Fedora (RedHat) then the first CD is sufficient. But you may also use any of the live CDs like Knoppix, Ubuntu Live CD and so on.