Re: black screen / blinking cursor after grub-install

[Mads Kiilerich]

J.V. wrote, On 08/12/2011 12:11 AM:
> On 8/10/2011 9:33 PM, Jordan Uggla wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM, J.V.<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > Just to follow up on the previous post.
> > >
> > > I have a black screen with a single blinking cursor after running:
> > >     #grub-install /dev/sda1
> > Never install grub's boot sector to a partition, install it to the mbr
> > instead (/dev/sda).
>
> I tried to do that just now, and it did not work.  I am looking for 
> additional solutions to make my system boot and undo what 
> #grub-install /dev/sda1 did
>
> ---
> I tried using the CentOS 6 media in rescue mode to do this and got 
> this error
> #grub-install /dev/sda
>
> /sbin/grub: Not found.
> sh-3.2#
>
> => so that is not possible with the CentOS 6 boot cd in rescue mode.

Try to mount your root partition somewhere, mount /boot, /proc and /sys, 
and then chroot to your system and run grub there.

(Btw: You are probably using Red Hats grub 0.97 which isn't supported 
here upstream.)

/Mads