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I've accidentially overwritten my bootloader. I was prepping some live USB sticks and think I accidentially wrote to my local disk instead of my USB stick. Now my machine will only boot in to Fedora and only in a live boot environment.

I've downloaded http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ and installed that to a USB stick and am looking at that, but have never used it before and don't even know if this will work.

Can anyone help me get my bootloader back?

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You should be able to boot your hard disk if you plug in the USB stick that grub was written to.

Once booted do an update-grub.

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I couldn't find an answer to this and ended up reinstalling :(

Lesson - be careful when prepping live USB sticks to put a destination as if you don't it'll target your local HDD.

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