Sunday, June 30, 2013

Grub2 recovery

centos / cPanel server grub2 recovery steps : 
1. Boot your server from a live CD 
2. type fdisk -l command to find out your primary disk partition where you want to recover your grub. 

3. mkdir /media/sda1
4.  mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 
5.  mount --bind /dev /media/sda1/dev
6.  mount --bind /proc /media/sda1/proc 
7.  chroot /media/sda1
8.  grub-install /dev/sda
9.  If you get an error, then we need to execute this command -> grub-install --recheck /dev/sda 

10 After the grub installation we will exist from chroot => exit

11 umount /media/sda1/proc
12 umount /media/sda1/dev
13 umount /media/sda1 
14 reboot the server

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