how to reinstall grub on ESX 4 system?

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Published on 2010-04-14T23:56:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 0:03 UTC
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I rebooted my esx 4 server today and was greet by a single bit of text that said GRUB and it hung. I am attempting to restore the MBR GRUB partition, but am having difficulties. All i have is the ESX 4 installation ISO. Can someone help me with the procedure to make this work?

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