What ever you do - do not use the dd cmd to alter the master boot record.  You 
system disk will become unusable and I have not found a way to fix it other 
than a Low Level Format.   Directions in RH user manual are hard to read and 
do not work.
I you really dislike Gnome try KDE on 7.1 all I can say is that it is awful 
makes Windows 7 look intelligent.

Larry Linder

On Sunday July 26 2015 6:59 pm, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Have lost all in /boot/grub2 except grubenv.
>
> I am running the Mate desktop from EPEL.
>
> Tried editing grub from Caja as root.
>
> Any ideas on how to restore grub?
>
> Gnome is no longer a pleasing desktop, hence Mate.
> Why did Gnome become something one would not like to have in the home?
>
> System still boots.
>
> P.S.
> Attached is my .Xmodmap, and it works for me, perhaps useful for some.