On 4/19/06, Yu,Glen [Ontario] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is a question about GRUB not on Debian, but SuSE. I just felt that this > is not really a Debian-specific topic so I decided to ask here so don't flame > me if you don't like it.. > > First of all, I don't really like splash screens/pics during boot and would > rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the option that said > "splash=silent" (it was there by default) in my /boot/grub/menu.lst . Since > then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt rather than showing me the menu > options. I was able to boot in by typing the commands: > > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro > initrd /boot/initrd > boot > > I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB, but is > not able to rectify the problem. It appears to me like GRUB isn't reading > from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!! I've posted this question in various > forums but so far no help whatsoever. If anyone has any suggestions, I would > like to hear it. > > Thanks in advance, > -Glen > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Glen Yu | 416-739-4861 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >
Suse doesn't have a mailing list? Oh well at least it's not brocolli.... Your grub menu.lst file should look something like this bear in mind this is only an example your partitions will of course look differently hd(x,y) gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=791 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd title windows chainloader(hd0,0)+1 title floppy chainloader(fd0)+1 title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda7 ide=nodma \ apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.shipped It's very possible that you deleted more that just your splash=silent if you are having trouble booting now. It would be easier to help if you posted your menu.lst file. If you wanted to disable SuSe splash screen you could have done this Enter the command echo 0 >/proc/splash on the command line to disable the graphical screen. To activate it again, enter echo 1 >/proc/splash. All of this information is available for free at Novell's site http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html?page=/documentation/suse10/adminguide/data/sec_grub_basic.html
