On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 at 16:47, Charles Hudson via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning exercise > I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt.
Sure, it can. My suggestions are based around Ubuntu as I don't like Fedora much, but the same general methods should apply. On a different computer, get Ventoy and use it to format a USB key. It does not need to be installed: run once and then delete it. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html Onto your Ventoy key, copy: * a current Fedora ISO file * a current FreeDOS ISO file * maybe a current Win10 ISO file for safety (it's a free download from microsoft.com) * I suggest some small additional tools such as a Gparted Live ISO and a SystemRescue ISO * Maybe a Universal Boot CD ISO When you boot the key, it generates a menu on the fly to let you pick what ISO to boot. DOS generally likes to be the 1st active primary partition on an MBR-formatted drive. You can boot into a Fedora live session and use Gparted to move stuff around to make that the case, if necessary. Then reboot. Fedora has very brief and not very helpful instructions here: https://jfearn.fedorapeople.org/fdocs/en-US/Documentation/0.1/html/Fedora_Multiboot_Guide/GRUB-reinstalling.html Fuller ones here but they assume your system works: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/ Here are more general ones you can adapt: https://www.fosslinux.com/115031/troubleshoot-boot-problems-by-reinstalling-grub-on-linux.htm The Boot-repair tool may help you: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
