On Sep 26, 2013 9:38 PM, "Tim" <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 25 September 2013, Richard Vickery sent:
> I forget how to edit Grub: I thought editing was in /boot/grub and
> tried to vi grub.cfg finding an empty page...
That was the old version. Now, the /etc/default/grub file,
and /etc/grub.d/ files are used for generating the grub config file.
But that wasn't what Joe was talking about. Rather than edit the
configuration files, he suggested temporarily changing the options that
grub will use as it boots. Start booting, pick a kernel to boot from,
but choose the edit rather than boot option.
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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.
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.
Something someone in Development ought to create is the ability to
multitask in the text environment.
Thanks for the tips,
Richard