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Which Linux?

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  • #32
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,947 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Boot the PC using a liveCD of any Linux and edit it from there.


  • #33
    L'prof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,051 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Johnboy1951 wrote: »
    Boot the PC using a liveCD of any Linux and edit it from there.

    Sound, I'll give it a go. I thought I tried that yesterday (when I did something similar) but I couldn't find it / didn't know where to look.


  • #34
    Dorsanty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Dorsanty


    Hit 'e' when grub shows up to edit the values. Then 'b' to boot.

    Of course you'll need to know what was wrong with your edit. Then fix the menu.lst once you are up and running.
    menu.lst is in /boot/grub/


  • #35
    L'prof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,051 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    Dorsanty wrote: »
    Hit 'e' when grub shows up to edit the values. Then 'b' to boot.

    Of course you'll need to know what was wrong with your edit. Then fix the menu.lst once you are up and running.
    menu.lst is in /boot/grub/

    I think this worked. I knew what the code looked like so I knew what to change back anyway.

    I had this and what's in red didn't seem to boot properly: 
    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,5)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
[COLOR="Red"]title Fedora (2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586.img[/COLOR]
title Fedora
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
title Windows Vista
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

    And these are the changes I made: 
    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,5)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
#title Fedora (2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586)
[COLOR="Red"]#[/COLOR]	root (hd0,5)
[COLOR="Red"]#[/COLOR]	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root rhgb quiet
[COLOR="Red"]#[/COLOR]	initrd /initrd-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i586.img
title Fedora
	root (hd0,5)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_jasonlaptop-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
title Windows Vista
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

    I thought the # would ignore the rest of the line, just in case I made a mistake and needed to change it back.


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