I lost my drive with my media center on it, and I realized that I had an old backup lying around.
But when I went to restore my backup, I realized that all of the files had been copied with a Windows utility, and more than likely my file permissions are all messed up.
It will be a few hours before I'll be able to attempt to boot to this, but is there anything I can do, even manually, to restore this to a bootable condition? I assume, at the least, that the execute bit has been unset on any and all files.