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by maddogshug on February 20th, 2007
i have done it. i booted a gentoo minimal cd.
mounted my boot partition to /mnt/gentoo/boot
mounted my root partition to /mnt/gentoo and issued these commands
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab (no rootfs if no /boot partition)
grub-install /dev/hda (your hardrive here)
exit (to leave chroot)
umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
umount /mnt/gentoo
reboot
if your distro has an easier way do that, but this should work with any distro
by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on February 18th, 2007
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