Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-20 Thread Rob Bochan
On Monday 20 June 2005 06:20 am, Greg wrote: > > Uncannily enough, that's EXACTLY what I did a couple of days ago! > I suggest you use "grubconf", which works really well, I must say. > It gives you all your bootables twice, once mutli-user, and once > single-user for each linux kernel, on the boot

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-20 Thread Greg
Rob Bochan wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2005 12:21 pm, Hans Hofker wrote: Well, grub does have a 'cat' command (see 'info grub'), but apparently it is only valid on the command line and in menu entries, NOT in the global section of the menu. So, it is not what you are looking for :-( No, unfor

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 19 June 2005 12:21 pm, Hans Hofker wrote: > Well, grub does have a 'cat' command (see 'info grub'), but apparently > it is only valid on the command line and in menu entries, NOT in the > global section of the menu. So, it is not what you are looking for :-( > No, unfortunately, it's no

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 19 June 2005 12:14 pm, Kent West wrote: > He meant to do that once logged in at a console prompt, not at a grub > prompt. He wants to make sure the file exists and actually has content. > I just tried it at the main console and at the grub console, both found the file no problem. I jus

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Kent West
Rob Bochan wrote: >On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:17 am, Hans Hofker wrote: > > > >>Have you tried "cat /path/to/message" >> >> >That had no effect, and I'm not sure that grub has a 'cat' command built into >it, as far as the menu.lst file goes. > > He meant to do that once logged in at a cons

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Hans Hofker
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:44:37AM -0400, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:17 am, Hans Hofker wrote: > > > > > Have you tried "cat /path/to/message" > > > > That had no effect, and I'm not sure that grub has a 'cat' command built into > it, as far as the menu.lst file goes. Thanks f

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 19 June 2005 10:17 am, Hans Hofker wrote: > > Have you tried "cat /path/to/message" > That had no effect, and I'm not sure that grub has a 'cat' command built into it, as far as the menu.lst file goes. Thanks for the suggestion though. I've also tried a 'gfxmenu' setting offered by ano

Re: Fun with grub

2005-06-19 Thread Hans Hofker
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:55:50PM -0400, Rob Bochan wrote: > Grub is > functioning properly, but I'm missing something that I used to have in > lilo... specifically the > message=/path/to/message > that I had in my old lilo.conf file. > > Is there a grub equivalent to this? > Have you tried