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I have accidentally broken my Fedora 19 boot when installing Windows 7. Fedora is a separate HDD drive, but somehow it now has Win bootloader and no GRUB. How can I restore GRUB and fix Linux boot?

I've found this instruction: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/ap-rescuemode.html#s2-rescuemode-boot-reinstall-bootloader So I've made Fedora live USB stick, booted from it and... I don't understand what "installation boot prompt" is. This live CD boots into regular KDE desktop, and if I launch console and type linux rescue it says there's no binary called linux.

Advices please?

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    GRUB or GRUB2? Use the terminal method from this tutorial howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot
    – Ramhound
    Aug 30, 2013 at 15:01
  • @Ramhound: don't know, whatever is default for Fedora nowadays. Will try, thanks.
    – Violet Giraffe
    Aug 30, 2013 at 17:03
  • The instructions are different. Figure what version of GRUB you have installed if you want help.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 30, 2013 at 17:13
  • @Ramhound: how? Actually, I don't care what GRUB version it is as long as it boots my Linux.
    – Violet Giraffe
    Aug 30, 2013 at 17:16
  • If you try using the instructions for the wrong version you will simply break your installlation beyond repair. You need to research how to determine what version of Grub you have installed then follow the correct procedure to fix it. I am not going to research how to repair Grub and determine what version you have installed.
    – Ramhound
    Aug 30, 2013 at 17:46

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The boot prompt can be accessed by pressing ESC on this screen (which is displayed before actual Fedora loading starts when booting from installation DVD):

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I've typed linux rescue, followed further instructions from the article linked in my question and everything worked like charm. The only other issue was that Fedora Live CD doesn't have linux rescue mode. Only the DVD does.

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