OS recovery

[Goh Lip]

On Wednesday 10,November,2010 01:49 PM, Mark wrote:
> However, I can't help wondering what, if any, is a better recovery
> method when the primary /boot fails before the OS goes anywhere.

The usual suggestion is to repair boot using the livecd and then boot up 
and regenerate. My personal recommendation is to use a grub rescue disk 
to boot to the OS and fix it there.

grub-mkrescue --output=anyname.iso

Regrds - Goh Lip