D-Man wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large > | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and > > You found a large amount of docs? Lucky you ;-). I didn't think > there was a whole lot of documentation (yet).
Well, there's a lot of stuff to decipher. There should be a top-level section called: "So your distribution installed grub during installation and you want to know how to modify it?" :-) > | wanted LILO to know about it, I'd edit /etc/lilo.conf and run > | lilo again to update the boot sector. > | > | Since grub knows about filesystems, do I need to do a similar > | update step? Or do I simply edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and reboot? > | > | I thought I'd ask before possibly rendering my system unbootable > | and resorting to a rescue disk. > > Here you get to experience the beauty of grub. All you need to do is > edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. When you reboot you will see the new entry > in the menu. Thanks. > Now suppose you either (a) forgot to update the menu.lst file or (b) > made a mistake when you updated it. When you reboot simply enter the > command line mode of grub and enter in the correct boot sequence > commands. You will then be able to boot and fix the menu.lst file. > Alternatively you can enter the "edit entry" mode and interactively > edit the entry and then run it. This doesn't save your modifications > in the menu.lst file, but it allows you to boot your system regardless > of host the menu.lst was set up prior to boot. I'll have to experiemnt with this. Sounds pretty useful. Thanks again, Peter
