Romain Lerallut wrote:
Brian May wrote:
"Romain" == Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Romain> I use grub, including scsi emulation for my CDR burner,
Romain> and I had no problem installing, none at all :-)
Romain> However I'd like to know how to pass arguments to the
Romain> kernel when I boot: For instance, how do I start in
Romain> single-user mode ? Do I have to predefine such things in
Romain> menu.lst, or is there another way ? One that would not
Romain> clutter the nice menu.
In my grub I have:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319
But you can't modify those options before you actually log in, can you ?
I seem to remember that lilo allowed you to specify new options by using
the command line when booting.
What I mean is "interact at boot time":
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO-2.html#ss2.3
not just choosing from a pre-defined set of operating modes of a given
kernel.
Romain
Yes you can. Suppose you boot your machine using a floppy (which has
grub installed so that you'd get the menu), just press "c" when the menu
waits to be selected. You'd have the grub's prompt, and then you could
type something like:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /a-test-kernel root=/dev/your-root-partition single
boot
Another situation: you already have your system running and then want to
have a newly compiled kernel to be booted:
run grub
do the same thing as the above
Oki