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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Boot Failure
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:55:14 -0400
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On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 09:24:26 AM Peter Briggs wrote:
> I believe that after you boot from the live cd, you can remount the boot
> partition with something like
> 
> mount -o rw,remount <device for boot partition>
> 
> such as
> 
> mount -o rw,remount /dev/sda1
> 
> if the boot /boot were on /dev/sda1
> 
> and you can just type
> 
> mount
> 
> to find out where /boot is currently mounted

You can also use the rescue image and it makes everything accessible so that you can 
fix things.

-Steve