On 2/21/06, Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf@cha.forthnet.gr wrote:
Greetings Dotan ,
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 2/16/06, Jeff Vian jvian10@charter.net wrote:
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:07 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
It does not "remember" your previous selection. It does *always* boot the kernel marked as default unless you make some other selection from the menu.
Can I only boot from options in the menu? If I _know_ that I want to boot from hdb8 or from (1,8)
Watch out here !! This is partially wrong counting . Yes indeed hdb is the Primary Slave ( the Second IDE Hard Disk of the system ) But 8 is the seventh partition of hdb so in order to boot from hdb8 you would have to ask grub to boot from (1,7 ) . By all means you can do that while the computer boots , at the boot menu press "e" make the change and go ahead .....
Kind Regards, Kostas
Thanks you Kostas. You provided the most useful information here: what the press and how to access the partition that I want. True, I did figure it out in playing with the system in the last few days, but your complete answer is appreciated nonetheless.
Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/question/how_can_i_be_safe_online.html