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On Sep 26, 2013 9:38 PM, "Tim" <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Allegedly, on or about 25 September 2013, Richard Vickery sent:<br>
> > I forget how to edit Grub: I thought editing was in /boot/grub and<br>
> > tried to vi grub.cfg finding an empty page...<br>
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> That was the old version. Now, the /etc/default/grub file,<br>
> and /etc/grub.d/ files are used for generating the grub config file.<br>
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> But that wasn't what Joe was talking about. Rather than edit the<br>
> configuration files, he suggested temporarily changing the options that<br>
> grub will use as it boots. Start booting, pick a kernel to boot from,<br>
> but choose the edit rather than boot option. </p>
<p>/cut</p>
<p>I'm not at the computer, but I am sure that I don't get to see that option. I believe the kernels to boot into comes up before the encription password. Given this, I will give it a try when I have it. </p>
<p>I don't bring it with me anymore as it is hard to navigate without X. I do like the idea as I learn to navigate in text given that it is extremely challenging being so used to X, but it becomes rather useless since I forget much because of disuse. </p>
<p>Something someone in Development ought to create is the ability to multitask in the text environment.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips,</p>
<p>Richard</p>